Note: Taking of hostages is considered a grave breach of the Geneva conventions. Arresting someone without charging him is akin to hostage taking under international law.
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She didn't want to be a troublemaker; she's a US citizen, after all. So when American soldiers came to Jeanan Moayad's house, looking for her father, she cooperated. She showed them his medical records and her own Texas birth certificate. Her father was in Jordan, she told them, undergoing surgery. So they took her husband instead.
Iraqis, desperately seeking detainees, meet frustration | csmonitor.com
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