Sunday, January 29, 2006
ADD in the American Press
Like many other media organizations this week, the Washington Post is reporting that new documents show that the US military has been "taking into custody" the wives of suspected insurgents in an attempt to get them to turn themselves in. It's been justifiably getting a lot of attention because it's a despicable practice. What I don't understand is that everyone is treating it as a newsworthy revelation, even though the Washington Post published an article in July 2003 -- and I noted it here at the time -- quoting a US commander openly saying that he was doing this:
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.
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