US Frees Iraqi Woman Detainees (held as "bargain chips") After Protests

[UpInArms]

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-06/19/article05.shtml

MOSUL, June 19, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – US occupation forces completed on Sunday, June 19, the release of twenty one Iraqi women held as a bargain chip in the northern city of Mosul.

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The Islamic party championed a massive demonstration following the Friday prayers on June 17 to press for the immediate release of all Iraqi women in the US custody.

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"They stormed the house on May 24, searching for my son. When they failed to find him they detained his wife and threw his six-month-old child to the ground," she recalled.

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Amnesty International said in a report last month that several women detained by US troops had complained of beatings, threats of rape, humiliating treatment and long periods of solitary confinement.

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[Frederik]

1. But they're nothing like the Nazis

Durbin should be shot for treason for suggesting that.

[patdem]

2. Wouldn't that be kidnapping? If anyone except the US did it, it would

be criminal. We just get to do anything and expect no consequences, I suppose? :shrug:

[leftchick]

3. yes it is indeed kidnapping.

the USA is behaving like the thugs and terrorists they claim to be fighting. Sickening.

[LynnTheDem]

4. "bargaining chips" = Geneva Convention violation.

A VERY clear-cut violation.

Not that America cares about the "quaint" Geneva Conventions; America doesn't do morality and honor anymore.

[MountainLaurel]

5. Remember the two kids

Being held in a detention facility in either Afghanistan or Iraq, to lure in their father? Kidnaping seems to be SOP these days.

[Disturbed]

6. Amerika is not held accountable for it's ...

War Crimes. Why?

[GetTheRightVote]

7. But we are there to help this poor women out of their abusive lives

How phony is America ??

:kick:

[Solly Mack]

8. Yet another war crime America is getting away with

When will enough be enough?