Taking Iraqi Relatives as Hostages
Now the U.S. is taking hostages....
U.S. soldiers have arrested the wife and daughter of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former Iraqi general who is believed to have been helping Hussein loyalists regroup and coordinating attacks against the coalition, Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno said Wednesday.
In the arrests, the two women, along with the son of al-Douri's doctor, were found by soldiers from the Army's 4th Infantry Division in a raid on a house near Samarra late Tuesday. They were being held for interrogation.
"We believe that they might have some information on where [al-Douri] is traveling, how he is moving," Odierno said.
Billmon explains how this is in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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