US seizing Iraqi wives

There have been some allegations of this, and a few anecdotal cases, but never previously a hard record from the military. (Documents released in a FOIA by the ACLU.) The details are a little staggering, and there is a documented recommendation(?) from a "command officer."

The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.

In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife."

Strip that free from Islamic cultural context, and think about that a minute. The Russians, the Chinese, the Nazis, whoever, came into your house, kicked in the door, and took away your wife, your children's mother.