'America paid us to hand over al-Qaeda suspects'

[NVMojo]

General Musharraf's memoir serialised in The Times will further embarrass the White House



General Musharraf called US demands after 9/11 'ludicrous' (LAWRENCE JACKSON/AP)


PRESIDENT Musharraf of Pakistan says that the CIA has secretly paid his government millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of al-Qaeda suspects to America.

The US government has strict rules banning such reward payments to foreign powers involved in the war on terror. General Musharraf does not say how much the CIA gave in return for the 369 al-Qaeda figures that he ordered should be passed to the US.

The US Department of Justice said: “We didn’t know about this. It should not happen. These bounty payments are for private individuals who help to trace terrorists on the FBI’s most wanted list, not foreign governments.”

The revelation comes from General Musharraf’s memoir, In the Line of Fire, which begins serialisation in The Times today and will further embarrass the White House at a time when relations between the US and Pakistan are already strained.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2373840,00.html

[aquart]

1. What budget line was that money on, precisely?

[NVMojo]

2. good question

[NVMojo]

3. looks like it might be the CIA ...

The CIA refused to divulge the size of its bounty payments, saying: “Our relationships with international leaders is not something we are prepared to talk about.” One senior CIA figure added: “Nor do we expect these leaders to do so.”

[tanyev]

7. Some of that "missing" $9 billion, mayhaps.

[ThomCat]

4. How the hell could any intelligent person insist

that the captives were known the be the most deadly and dangerous terrorists in the world when the US created such a huge conflict of interest. Turn over some available schmuck and get paid.

The people they paid had no incentive to get real terrorists. Real terrorists would presumably be dangerous. But round up some harmless person you don't like and you get paid.
x(

This whole situation was a fuck-up from day one.

[indepat]

5. Fu*k up by intelligent design

[Parche]

6. mushareff

New Reality show, "Musharef the Terrorist Bounty Hunter"

[PVnRT]

8. And when you do that, you get people just wanting to make a buck

And more innocent people get sent to Syria to be tortured.