Reply #11: No wonder they love us and greeted us with flags and flowers. [View All]

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From a related story in today's Wall Street Journal:

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In an early-morning raid on Aug. 3, American soldiers kicked down the door of Najim Abdulhussein's house and took him away, along with his 17-year-old son, Qutaibah. Their family has been searching for them ever since.

Sent to a local police station, relatives were told not to expect any answers for at least a month. Qutaibah's 16-year-old sister waited four hours in 130-degree heat at a military-information center, only to be told by a U.S. major that he couldn't find her brother and father in a database that should have contained their whereabouts. Another relative went to an American-run prison holding Iraqi detainees, where he stood at the gates speaking vainly in Arabic, while a soldier tried to tell him that all the translators were stuck in a meeting.

The only results: growing anxiety and frustration over the fate of the 52-year-old grocer and his teenage son -- and mounting anger toward the occupiers. "They treat us all the same, like we are their enemies," Ahmad Al-Naeem, an Abdulhussein neighbor, said of the Americans. "Then they wonder why people hate them and form resistance groups."

Almost every night, as part of an urgent drive to bring security to Iraq, the U.S. military carries out raids in neighborhoods across Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. Frequently, one or more male family members are taken away for further investigation. The number of detainees in greater Baghdad is now more than 7,000, according to the U.S. military.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10636628586962200,00.html?mod=todays%255Fus%255Fpageone%255Fhs