Saddam Was 'Betrayed by Aide'

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1CD9BB7F-1366-406B-ABBB-9D7CAB598B53.htm

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Saddam Hussein was betrayed by a top aide who helped the former Iraqi president during eight months as a fugitive, according to the US military.

"He was someone I would call his right arm," said Major Stan Murphy, the head of intelligence for the US 4th Infantry Division's First Brigade in Tikrit, describing the man who led to the former Iraqi leader's capture at a hideout near there on 13 December.

Murphy said the informant was in detention, ruling out the possibility that he would receive any of the $25 million bounty that the United States had placed on Saddam's head.

"He is a bad man and should rot in jail," the major said.

[JailBush]

1. Wow, that's a great incentive for anyone who wants to collect rewards from

the U.S. military.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. They stiffed the rat fink out of the $25M...

Didn't anyone tell the "informant" that you never do business with the BFEE and expect them to come through with their end of the deal?

[sistersofmercy]

6. If the guy was in detention he was probably tortured into revealing

Saddam's whereabouts. IIRC there was a news snip about a top Saddam aide being taken into custody at least a month ago, maybe two months ago.

[KissMyAsscroft]

3. Its like that scene in Pee Wees Big Adventure!

"Whoever gives me information on who stole my bike was obviously the one who stole it!!!!"

[Vitruvius]

4. They don't give the reward if they have to torture it out of you.

As for the "incentive" -- the incentive is that if you talk, the torture may stop. Until they decide they want to know something else.

And if he's "a bad man and should rot in jail", obviously he "deserves" to be tortured. Ahh -- the power of self-righteous rationalization...

By-the-way, I notice they've stopped floating the BS that Saddam's wife turned him in -- I guess their little plan to provoke Saddam's supporters into assassinating his wife wasn't getting any traction...

P.S: Maybe that individual is "a bad man" who belongs in jail. But, as Oliver Wendall Holmes pointed out, "there are some things you don't do to a dog". And torture is one of them.

[forgethell]

5. I don't want to stand up

for the * regime, but I believe they had been looking for this man for some time, that he was a fugitive himself, that he did not voluntarily come up and give the information but was captured and"interrogated".

So why should he get the reward? The incentive is for people to save the military some trouble and come forward without having to be captured, isn't it. I think it's called "carrot & stick".

I mean, I sympathize and agree with your anger at *, but this is not something that will convince anybody about the evil of this administration. Most of the electorate would be angered if he HAD gotten the award under the circumstances.

If we are reduced to soundbites like this, Lord are we in toruble.

Merry Christmas.

on edit add lind http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3331669.stm