Documents show US military in Iraq detain wives

From Reuters via ABC News courtesy of Crooks and Liars:

U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.

Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, "in order to leverage" her husband's surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer.

In the other, an e-mail exchange includes a U.S. military officer asking "have you tacked a note on the door and challenged him to come get his wife?"

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Interesting headline: "detain wives." I have a better word for this than "detain." It's kidnapping. It doesn't matter that these are our soldiers doing the kidnapping. It doesn't matter that this is the "war on terror." Kidnapping is wrong. Really wrong. Of course, this comes as absolutely no surprise. Continual revelations, from widespread torture to spying on American citizens, have already shown that our leaders are truly horrible, awful people. If we don't, as a people, stop this shit now, it's all over. America is ending before our eyes. And it's our fault if we let it happen.

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