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Skunk · 11-09-2003, 08:26 PM

Al Jazeera has just broadcast and published a news article on the way that US troops tie up women and children during house searches.

While I can understand the need for security during a house search, the need to use plastic handcuffs on a child of (how old would you say that the girl in the pink dress below is, 6 or or 7?) is not justified. There is no reason why the kids can not be segregated and held in another part of the house (or outside) without the use of restraints.

Images like this will stay with that child *forever*, and it sure as hell won't win "hearts and minds" in either Iraq or the middle-east at large.

11-09-2003, 08:26 PM	#8
Skunk Banned User Join Date: September 3, 2001 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Age: 63 Posts: 1,463	Al Jazeera has just broadcast and published a news article on the way that US troops tie up women and children during house searches. While I can understand the need for security during a house search, the need to use plastic handcuffs on a child of (how old would you say that the girl in the pink dress below is, 6 or or 7?) is not justified. There is no reason why the kids can not be segregated and held in another part of the house (or outside) without the use of restraints. Images like this will stay with that child forever, and it sure as hell won't win "hearts and minds" in either Iraq or the middle-east at large.