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 U.S. Army Seized Wives as TacticPosted on Jan 27, 2006AP: 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.” | story Advertisement Previous item: Pentagon Propaganda Finding Its Way Back to U.S. Next item: Frey Won't Pen Memoir About Faking His Memoir Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment
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By Jamie McCarthy, January 28, 2006 at 12:51 pm #
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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)
Report thisBy l.anklam, January 28, 2006 at 11:53 am #
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“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!!”
Report thisBy W. White, January 28, 2006 at 1:55 am #
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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.
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