US Offers $10 Million for Saddam Deputy

[Socialist Christian]

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=F62FE63E-FE3D-4AA6-AC6502FA344EEE90


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The United States is now offering a $10 million reward for information about Saddam Hussein's former top deputy, a man believed to be behind recent attacks on U.S. troops.
The reward makes Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri the most wanted man in Iraq, after Saddam Hussein himself. The U.S.-led coalition has a standing $25 million reward offer for information about the ousted Iraqi president.

The United States paid $30 million for the information that led to the death of Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusai.

The coalition says houses belonging to Mr. Ibrahim were among the targets in this week's air strikes against insurgents in Iraq. Those strikes continued Tuesday night and Wednesday, with warplanes dropping some of the biggest bombs used since the end of major combat six months ago.

[shamanstar]

1. and we dont have money for

schools and highways in this country. now we know why- well not really. now we know where all the money goes.

[mobuto]

2. This man is a terrorist

He is under war criminal indictment for having exterminated the Marsh Arabs, and if he is responsible for any of the attacks on Iraqi civilians, as US forces allege, then he is a terrorist too. I see nothing wrong with this bounty.

Now if you want to look at the larger picture of the cost of this unnecessary war, then you're absolutely right that we'd have been much better off funding education and infrastructure. But now that we're in Iraq, we have to make the best of it. And given the miserable reality, this doesn't seem like an imprudent move.