While the author emphasized the "detention to get at the husband" angle, I would bet my right arm the U.S. had reason to believe these women were in cahoots with their husbands/terrorists.
In fact, (buried in the article) it does say that.
And remember, the U.S. version of detention is a WHOLE lot different that the Muslim one, where you get your head cut off.
That nursing mother should have thought more of her baby than to have it living in a den of murderous terrorists don't you think? She probably was treated better than she had been her entire life.
I can see right through this author's agenda.
Page 146: By August 2003, Charles J. Handley of the Associated Press had completed a detailed analysis of Colin Powell's United Nations speech with the hindsight of six months -- and eviscerated it. Every key contention Powell had made was shown to be without basis, but because of Powell's high standing and stature, very few newspapers prominently featured or even carried the devastating report by the Associated Press. Nor was there any real concern other than by a few commentators that the administration's case for war was completely bogus.