you are very observant reader, I was surprised as well seems US is not shy of enroling the legions of half-baked citizens (would you call them then mercenaries) or a good move to say, they were not US citizens (when the history will judge them)
what do you think of arresting a wife and a daughter in order to extort the submission of the second in line in Iraq good almighty US army using below the belt third world guerrila tactics, and if you think about it they could win the whole region with single bomb dropped on Israel (Hiroshima style), lol what a mess