[aruanan]

Exactly my point isn't it? Why do we want to hold the terrorists kids as hostages?

No one but you has said they were being held as hostages. And if there were, they'd be wrong too. Let's say that a mass murderer and a chief officer of a criminal organization has a couple of kids who are taken into custody shortly after he has been captured. Are they being "held hostage"? Hardly. They may be kept somewhere out of the public eye for their own protection, but this is in no way like their daddy's plans to hold hostage and kill innocent kids their own age for his own political/religious ends.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Maybe hostage is too stong of a word. Sorry.

Still I would cut the kids loose. Our detention only fuels propaganda.

Thinking about it, what kind of terrorists surround themselves with women and children?

Despots and cowards, to answer my own question.