Wife and daughter of Saddam deupty arrested

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U.S. Arrests Wife of Saddam Deputy

By NIKO PRICE, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops arrested the wife and daughter of a top Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) deputy suspected of masterminding attacks on U.S. troops, and a major pipeline linking northern Iraqi oilfields to the country’s biggest refinery was ablaze Wednesday.

Hours after large explosions shook the center of Baghdad near U.S. headquarters, the visiting British foreign secretary said Iraq (news - web sites) will be a safer place once the U.S.- and British-led coalition hands over power to an Iraqi government.

Troops of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad, arrested the wife and daughter of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a top Saddam associate, division spokesman Lt. Col. William MacDonald said Wednesday.

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Isn’t that just one more violation of some convention/international rules to arrest wife/family members of a wanted person? Isn’t that equal to kidnapping? Do not talk about how bad the bombing of “civilians” or “US troops” is, thanks in advance, this is “family” we are talking about.

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not exactly. this whole iraq war is illegal so none of the conventions/international rules apply to this war. americans have free-hand to do whatever they want to do in iraq. this is like a game where you come up with new strategies and then execute them to see how they'll turn out. if for the best then you can use them in other wars, if for the worse then better to forget about them and back to the drawing table.

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this is freedom lovers war