Security concern delays payment of US reward to Uday, Qusay informant

[demdave]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Concern for the security of the Iraqi informant who led US troops Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons Uday and Qusay in July has delayed payment of a record 30-million-dollar reward for the tipoff, a State Department official said.

More than a month after Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) approved the payout, the money remains in US coffers awaiting a resolution to the problem which the official said could lead to the identification of the unnamed informant.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=8&u=/afp/20030915/pl_afp/us_iraq_reward_030915172250

[Brucellosis]

1. This informant is a hero

Let's hope we can ensure his safety. He deserves this money!

[RapidCreek]

4. Who's we?

If he deserves his money...why haven't the Rethugs paid him his money? How is he safer without his money than he would be with it? Seems to me 30 million would buy a whole lot more safety than nothing would. More Republican lies....business as usuall....As soon as their lips move you can pretty much be assured they are lying.

I wonder if fucking over veterans is a way of protecting thier safety as well?

RC

[Brucellosis]

5. I think if we offered him asylum in the U.S.

He would jump at the chance as most would.

[NickB79]

12. Hero?

I hardly think he qualifies for hero status. He did tip off the US military to the location of two men with past records of human rights violations, which was the right thing to do IMHO, and brave considering the risks he's taking being labelled a traitor. I hardly think he deserves $30 MILLION dollars for it, though! Hell, Uday and Qusay were not even important figures in this ongoing war. Did killing them stop the attacks? No, the attacks have increased, which implies the Hussein brothers were not some masterminds running the Iraqi resistance. Did killing them allow us to find these mythical WMD's? No. Are the Iraqi people feeling safer with those two dead? Probably not, as they now have US bullets to dodge instead of Iraqi bullets, what with us shooting up checkpoints and Iraqi police almost daily. Taking out those two has done nothing to improve the situation in Iraq, which is why I don't think he deserves THAT much money to begin with. However, our military did make the stupid mistake of offering that much to begin with, so we really should follow through on our agreement. Arrghh, this whole thing is just throwing more and more money down the toilet.

[htuttle]

13. Remember what Bush has always said...

"It's YOUR money..."

About the only thing Bush has ever been good at is spending OPM (Other People's Money).

[meegbear]

2. I was wondering how they were gonna get out of paying this guy

if 30 million dollars can't get you "safety", I don't know what will.

[Journeyman]

3. Isn't that the truth. . .

I'd ask for payment to be made to me on the plane taking me and my extended family away from Iraq. . . and once I had the money, I'd purchase the plane we were on and tell my pilot where to take me.

Now, what's so difficult and unsecure about that arrangement.

[Beetwasher]

6. Haha! People will be leaping at the chance to inform now!

NOT! What buffoons...:eyes:

When is a promise not a promise? When it comes from a Bush...

[qb]

7. Cash flow problems? Security sounds like a lame excuse.

Besides, based on all the reports an innuendo, doesn't everyone already "know" who the informant is? (the homeowner)

[sistersofmercy]

8. Said it before I'll say it again, I think the informant was forced...

Uday and Qusay had reportly 60 mil or more of US dollars, they track the strips. The strips in our bills were put there so our gov can tract the transport by drug dealers of large sums of money. Apparently it is very difficult to conceal.

[demdave]

14. I am a coin collector since 6 yrs old and consider myself well read

on the subject. I think you are mistaken about the mylar strips that are in the money. If you have a source for your assertion that the govt can track our money and how, I would love to see it. Thanks.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. I wouldn't give a plug nickel...

for this guys chances of living long enough to collect. The Bush's will have him killed so the money will default to the BFEE.

[booksenkatz]

10. Does the informant take credit cards?

Maybe he did a background credit check on America and realized we are up to our asses in debt and we don't HAVE the money to pay him. He's gonna send his thugs around to repossess the Hussein carcasses, I suppose.
:shrug:

[Jack The Tab]

11. HAH! This fool thought a Bush would act honorably?

I agree with the above poster who said let's see how long this guy lives.

This administration is a fucking snake pit, and most of the world's governments know this, and deal with it accordingly. Anyone who expects honest treatment from these cockroaches has not been paying attention.

[RapidCreek]

15. The Wolf and the Crane

Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1887)
10. The Wolf and the Crane (Perry 156)

A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: 'Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.'
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

RC

[MrBenchley]

16. Sounds more like they're hoping

somebody bumps him off and they don't have to pay out, doesn't it?