Two incidents in May and June of 2004? And this is just being focused on now?

Where has everyone been?

This U.S. war crime was publicly reported in 2003, and I blogged about it then:

U.S. Army Colonel Admits to War Crime (wife and daughter of al-Douri, July 2003)

and again:

U.S. Is Repeatedly Committing War Crimes (same tactic being used repeatedly, December 2003; al-Douri’s nephews taken into custody in January 2004, at which time his wife and daughter were still captive)

and again:

U.S. Hostage-Taking Continues (American woman’s husband used as hostage, May 2004, and this is apparently unrelated to the May 2004 hostage-taking raid described in your linked article)

“How could the people of Iraq possibly be upset with us???? After all, all we have done is invade their country, destroy their homes, bomb their water and electical supplies, taken their oil, killed 30,000 or so of their people, put thousands of them in prison, and now we’ll really piss them off by putting their women in prison also. Our President in a real genuine ASSHOLE!!”

Task Force 6-26 is the smoking gun that connects Rumsfeld to detainee torture, and now according to this AP story, to the kidnapping of suspect’s wives. Task Force 6-26 is a so-called Special-Access Program, which, according to award winning author and journalist Seymour Hersh in his best selling book, Chain of Command, is authorized only by Rumsfeld or his immediate deputies. Task Force 6-26 is head-quartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where, according to Hersh, U.S. agents train with Israel commandos.