Iraqi forces arrest 200 in hostage raids
Iraqi forces searching for four Americans and an Austrian who were kidnapped in southern Iraq detained about 200 suspected insurgents, police said today.
Police carrying machine guns and wearing fatigues and black face masks showed off their suspects by inviting the media to a police station where their prisoners were blindfolded and forced to sit on the ground outside. One of the suspects was a disabled man who had lost both legs at the knee and was sitting in a wheelchair.
