Bryon Daly wrote: > Seems ridiculous to me. The US gladly paid out $30 million > to the tipster > for the Hussein boys, and freely stated so. Why would this > be different? I > don't buy that national pride argument that the US needed to > capture him > rather than get him handed over. In fact, I think that if he > had been > betrayed and turned over by his own closest people, it would > have been a > powerful message to the remaining fighters that the cause is > lost. That, > and some happy Iraqis with a giant $25 million check makes > good PR as well, > and could encourage future sellouts among the terrorists.
I haven't read that link yet but there have been a number of reports that the informant would not be paid the award money. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/saddam_capture_bodyguard_03 1215-1.html Ritu _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
