Reply #13: They could just ask Col Hogg about it- [View All]

[Rose Siding]

July 03, it was right there in the WP -kidnapping, complete with ransom note. (maybe only DUers read the paper that day)

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Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you want your family released, turn yourself in." Such tactics are justified, he said, because, "It's an intelligence operation with detainees, and these people have info." They would have been released in due course, he added later.

The tactic worked. On Friday, Hogg said, the lieutenant general appeared at the front gate of the U.S. base and surrendered.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54345-2003Jul27?language=printer

I contacted all my reps when this happened. One told me that they'd pressed the incident with a DoD contact who said I'd be contacted with info about it with the same priority as family notification. That's the term the Cantwell's staffer used in an email the next day, so I knew it was probably a big deal. I never heard back.

I've wondered about it since and driven myself a little nuts looking for the emails -I still have the file, but just the staffer's first name and not the orig emails.