When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets of Baghdad and the only place they will have to go is back to our apartment. We have to have someone there.
The confirmed number by the American forces now is 14,600 Iraqis detained in American prisons alone and we understand that the people of Iraq, their friends and family are suffering from that, too.
We want to make it clear to the kidnappers that these people were working for the good of the Iraqi people.