> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryon Daly > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 03:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Saddam not captured, but liberated? > > > >From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >An interesting take on recent news events surrounding > Saddam, and does > >pose > >some potentially intruiging questions. Possibly > meaningless, but the > >suggestion about negotiations IRT the reward money going > sour.. I dunno. > > > >http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=743 > > 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 understand what your point is - this article only briefly mentions the reward money.. did you actually read the article? If so, this is the best criticism you can come up with, something it doesn't even talk about? Further.. hell yeah, I'd negotiate the reward money if I was a low-level flunky in Dr Evil's empire. You bet your ass I wouldn't accept a check, and cash? Forget it! You think I'd live more than about 2 minutes after driving a car out of the US Embassy loaded with $25M in $100 bills (do you understand exactly how BULKY even $1M in $100 bills is? http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html ) >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. Yeah, they'll just head down to the local Money Tree or other Pay-Day Loan company and cash that puppy... Seriously tho, its looking more and more like Saddam had squat-all to do with day-to-day coordination, and now that Lebenese super-terrorist whotsisface is in southern Iraq (by many reports)... > Also, if he was captive, why would they leave him with > AK-47's, a pistol, and the cash? They didn't. The AK-47s were above ground, and the Pentagon has quickly yet quietly backed away from the story that Saddam had a pistol. For that matter, where was the communications equipment and records required to run an operation the size and sophistication that the Iraqi resistence is engaging in? what, was he yelling orders up that ventilation pipe? -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
