Even if you deem the occupation of Iraw justified, are we allowed to arrest the wife and child of an enemy leader under international rules governing warfare?
If not, is there another way to justify this?
Whoops, just asked the same question in GQ.
The CNN story says they were detained for questioning. No different than what the police would do for the wife of any at-large murderer.
This is almost a non story at this point. the article says almost nothing about why she was arrested. Obviously, it implies that she was arrested simply because she is al-Douris wife. But was she merely detained for questioning? Arrested for some offense? or what?
Well I hope they don’t “torture” the poor family for information…
( Just a nitpick -> "He criticized Bremer’s decision to disband the Iraqi army as “a mistake.”
Bush was the one that insisted in de-baathization and disbanding the army. )