U.S. to Pay $30 Million for Uday, Qusay Tip

[deek]

By Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expects to pay the full $30 million reward to the informant whose tip led U.S. soldiers to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons, Uday and Qusay, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

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According to the Rewards for Justice Web site, in the past nine years the United States has paid more than $9.75 million to 24 people who provided information that put "terrorists" behind bars or prevented acts of international terrorism.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030725/ts_nm/iraq_sons_reward_dc

[nannygoat]

1. I wish DU could turn in *, Cheney,

Rumsferatu, Wolfowitz, Rice, Powell, etc. and get a reward we could use to take back our country!

[saigon68]

2. LOOKS LIKE DUDE HIT THE LOTTERY

Does he have to pay taxes?/ FICA? Withholding???

[prolesunited]

3. We are in the f*cking Wild, Wild West

Wanted posters, reward money for bringing them in dead or alive, vigilante justice. I'm so glad to see the human race evolving. :eyes:

I'm sure the Freepers are just fine with the fact that we're giving "their" tax money to a dark-skinned, Islam-practicing Iraqi.

[Dover]

4. Our tax dollars being used for murder?! I'm appalled. Not only is their

killing illegal and unethical, but they want us to pay for it!

I will not sign on to be part of this mafia family.

[leesa]

5. Well, this will make it real interesting if it turns out to be bogus like

it was the other times. So we are shelling out millions for something that was in violation of US law.

[SoCalDem]

7. They'll just pay him fom the Saddam stash

that they found in Baghdad.. At least I HOPE that's where they get the money :)

[Spazito]

6. Hmmm, begs the question....

how much do the families of dead US soldiers get? Not 30 million, I bet! Disgusting to the nth degree, imo!

[diamond14]

8. now, shrub pays $30 Million to the cousin of saddam...now

what do you suppose saddam's family will do with that money ??...

here's a hint...

shrub gave $43 Million to Osama and his Taliban only a few months before 09/11...May 2001...

people begged him NOT to do it...

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban, May 22, 2001
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

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....the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime".....

[htuttle]

9. Did you ever see 'The Sting'?

And it was Saddam's concierge that verified that it was them, wasn't it?

;-)

[diamond14]

20. and this sting is a real easy one...with bush* so desparate...

all it took was to entice 4 Iraqis into a great free housing deal during a time of war and famine....easy

then, walk-in with the tip...

sit back and eat popcorn while the Americans lob missles and rockets into the house...

collect $30 Million dollars...

These Iraqis must be totally amazed at the stupidity of shrub and his minions...

watch for another major terror attack on the USA, backed by this money...just like the previous Taliban effort...please wake-up America....please, before it's too late...

[SpiralHawk]

10. 30 million pieces of silver to the Iraqui Iscariot

Inflation is the curse of of the Bush Family Empire.

[Herschel]

11. Worth every dollar

To eliminate these creatures.

[ColumbusGirl]

12. Worth the money?

Which puts you squarely on the oposite side of the fence from me.

And it sets an ugly ugly precident. What's next? Political rivals?

[Herschel]

13. They put torture, murder and rape on their own people.

Their deaths are a good thing.

[ColumbusGirl]

15. Your own signature says...

Take my hand not my life....

And two wrongs don't make a right....and PAYING for it makes it a pretty big wrong.

[Herschel]

16. Absurd

To compare murderers to an innocent unborn child!

[maxanne]

19. oho

So some killing is okay, is that how it goes, Herschel?

[ColumbusGirl]

23. Killing...

Apparently if it's someone you don't like, it's perfectly ok

[Ellen Forradalom]

14. And they say Republicans are bad tippers

That's a whole lot more than 20%.

[Muddleoftheroad]

24. No it's not

Imagine how much it would have cost us NOT to have them captured.

This was money well spent. The concept of bounties on thugs is long established and very successful.

[gristy]

17. I see another large campaign donation in * future

Bush doesn't buy votes. He buys the people or actions that can get him votes, regardless of any "unintended" consequences.

And he uses OUR money to do it.

:mad:

[realFedUp]

18. Overpriced.

Any mercenary could have done this same killfest for much
less...of course this administration always plays fast and loose
with other people's money.

[stevedeshazer]

21. So, let me see if I have this straight.

Despite spending $1,000,000,000.00 a week on the US military, we are paying $30,000,000.00 to a cousin because he narked on them?

Are we offering a similar amount for anyone who comes forward with proof of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?

And, if Iraq had them, wouldn't Uday and Qusay be the ones who most likely knew where they are? And, we had them TRAPPED IN A BUILDING? And, instead of capturing and interrogating them, we KILLED them, thus destroying any chance we may have had to extract this information from Saddam's boys?

And the link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda is where? I guess we won't be hearing from Qusay and Uday... :grr:

[imax2268]

22. this is bullshit...

I'm glad to see that our taxpayer dollars are being used to pay off a snitch who reported those two to the hit-man...

"Justice" huh...yea...right...

what about our dead soldiers...are their famalies going to get something...or just a pat on the back, a flag, and a "thank you"...

Shrub needs to go...now...!

[booksenkatz]

25. Why should my tax money pay for this?

These two men did not commit crimes against my country, so why are MY tax dollars paying for this reward? When I think of what $30 million could do for us here in America, it makes me ill. This is just the Boy King using MY tax dollars to pay for his personal vendetta against the Hussein family, and I don't appreciate it.