Iraqi Ministry Wants to Release Women Prisoners. The US Says NO!

[leftchick]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/January/focusoniraq_January100.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s Justice Ministry said on Sunday it still expects US forces to release six Iraqi women prisoners this week, despite US comments to the contrary.

The issue of the detainees has become central to the release of kidnapped US journalist Jill Carroll, whose abductors have threatened to kill her unless all female prisoners are freed.

Iraqi officials have since been at odds with their US counterparts over the release of the six, among eight women terrorism suspects in American custody. The Justice Ministry said last week the six were about to be freed, but US officials have insisted no releases are imminent.



This September 2005 photo shows Christian Science Monitor freelance writer Jill Carroll. Six Iraqi women detainees are to be released by the US military within a week, an Iraqi justice ministry official said. The kidnappers of Carroll have threatened to kill her unless US forces release all the detainees.(AFP/HO/File/Delphine Minoui)

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Is this the Pinochet regime?

People just gonna sit back and let crimes against women spiral out of control?

Evidently.

All in all, I wish I was a cat.

[TheGunslinger]

2. Sovereignty? Whuzzat?

[mom cat]

3. A myth for domestic consumption.

[jaxx]

4. Exactly.

That was one more farce in the never ending saga of dubya's war of choice.

[leftchick]

9. sovereinty amerikkkan style

thats what!

[robbedvoter]

5. Some of you will die - a sacrifice I'm willing to make" - Lord Farquar

[Solly Mack]

6. Wonder how quick prisoners would go free if a member of the

US government were to be kidnapped during a visit?

Guess it's all in what you value....


some lives being more important than others and all that

[leftchick]

7. exactly

I can only imagine the horror the Family of Jill Carroll is going through. :(

[BuyingThyme]

8. On the march.