Iraqi Wives Used as Leverage by U.S.
There is no depth to how low the US sinks in its zeal to root out insurgents in Iraq. Torturing suspects was bad enough. It has now come out that they were using the wives of suspected insurgents as leverage. What next? Snatching children, babies? How credible is information obtained this way? If you are a man whose wife is held 'hostage' by an occupier, what would you do? You'd no doubt turn yourself in even if innocent and confess to anything. This kind of atrocious behaviour only furthers animosity, alienation, and fuels the insurgency. Great way to 'win hearts and minds', isn't it?Thanks to Zaphod's Heads for this link:
The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of “leveraging” their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.
In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. 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.” Read more here
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