A Military unit of the Kurds found Saddam and in lue of being given the $30 Million Bounty were promised something. It was never reported what that was. Perhaps, the Kurds should sue for the $30 Mill now?
There will never be an Independent state in N. Iraq for the Kurds because Turkey will not allow it.
The "new" govt. of Iraq is a pure Puppet Govt. and will be such even after their elections in Jan 2005, if those actually stranspire. The US has wrapped up this arrangement and the largest Embassy on the planet will be built in Iraq and 14 Military bases will be built.
I have posted the following many times and will keep doing so until I get told enough already!
Full Sovereignty?
Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."
"Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements."
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html