The US Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, US military documents show.
In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a US intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife."
The issue of female detentions in Iraq has taken on a higher profile since kidnappers seized American journalist Jill Carroll on Jan. 7 and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women detainees are freed.
I also saw this on the NBC News tonight.
What is wrong with us? What is wrong with our military? How do we justify this tactic? I am slack jawed over this revelation.
How in the hell do we gain the trust of these people if we imprison innocent family members of suspected insurgents? Especially their women? I mean isn't anybody considering the fallout of something like this? This is just wrong! There is no excuse for this barbaric practice. None!
Get us the hell out of that country before there is nothing left of our reputation in the world!
Nazism?
ReplyDeleteyes....