This is an absolutely bizarre story about a family in Iraq that has had the father arrested and jailed by US forces to be used as a bargaining chip. They want this guys father-in-law, a former Baath Party member, so they are holding him until they have the old man. This is a truly disturbing new path by the Bush administration.
"On Feb. 17, Moayad said, a group of soldiers knocked on her door and delivered a handwritten letter from Ibrahim. It said he was being transferred from a U.S. base in Baghdad to Abu Ghraib prison "until the arrival of my father-in-law."
The American soldiers kept on telling me, 'Bring your father, and you will get your husband back,'" said Moayad, her soft voice trailing off. "How can they say that he's not a hostage?" - Newsday
