US in Iraq: Now kidnapping Iraqi women!

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US troops release three Iraqi women


Base commander apologizes for detaining three women after popular protests, promises not to repeat it in future.


By Kamal Taha - HABBANIYAH, Iraq

US coalition troops released Thursday three women recently detained during searches for suspected anti-coalition attackers that prompted massive popular protests, a correspondent said.

The women, seized three days ago, were allowed to return home after a delegation of 10 local clerics and tribal chiefs went earlier Thursday to the US base in Habbaniyah, west of Baghdad, to negotiate their release.

"They were released after we demonstrated and went this morning to meet with the US base commander to tell him of the need to release the three women," tribal chief Sheikh Kharbeet Jassem Kharbeet said.

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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=7514

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1. They've been doing this for months, they hold them hostage

"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."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54345-2003Jul27.html