US ARMY documents released yesterday revealed that troops have seized and jailed the wives of suspected Iraqi insurgents in the hope of “leveraging their husbands to surrender”.

Kidnappers of Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq threatened to kill him because today on an al-Qaida-linked website.

Gunmen killed four policemen and wounded at least nine more in separate attacks in Baghdad today. The reputed leader of al Qaida in Iraq said the country’s security forces were as great an enemy as the Americans and brushed aside calls to abandon the insurgency.