army seized wives as hostages in iraq

so tell me again, why we invited iraq? to fight terrorism? now tell me who's the terrorist?

Documents Show Army Seized Wives as Tactic
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
The Associated Press
Saturday, January 28, 2006; 2:50 AM

-- 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. ...