WAR: Iraqi Insurgents Offer $15 Million Bounty

Valhall,
Good point and thank you! Good night my friend and may peace be with you!

If they have the money i would be surprised, but i think its a ploy to get whomever that doesnt have enough common sense to do it. This could be anyone from a terrorist or to the average joe america that's been unemployed for long enough.

True? doubtful.
propaganda? probably.
effective? absolutely.

People pray everyday for the end to the violence but elect and actively support people (Bush) who perpetrate the violence. Hell, what did an Iraqi ever do to you that he deserves this? This is WORSE than Saddam.

And guess what? Your prayers won't be answered because guess who's coming to dinner.

That's right! John Negroponte, come on down! You're the next butcher to come to the Iraqi slaughter!

So, what's the history of the Bush-chosen Iraqi envoy for the US?

The New York Times credits John Negroponte with "carrying out the covert strategy of the Reagan administration to crush the Sandinista government in Nicaragua" during his tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981 and 1985. He oversaw the growth of military aid to Honduras from $4 million to $77.4 million a year. In early 1984, two U.S. mercenaries, Thomas Posey and Dana Parker, contacted Negroponte, stating they wanted to supply arms to the Contra army after the U.S. Congress had banned governmental add. Documents show that Negroponte connected the two with a contact in the Honduran military. The operation was exposed nine months later, at which point the Reagan administration denied any U.S. government involvement, despite Negroponte�s contact earlier that year. Other documents uncovered a scheme of Negroponte and then-Vice President George Bush to funnel Contra aid money through the Honduran government.

In addition to his work with the Nicaraguan Contra army, Negroponte helped conceal from Congress the murder, kidnapping and torture abuses of a CIA-equipped and -trained Honduran military unit, Battalion 3-16. No mention of these human rights violations ever appeared in State Department Human Rights reports for Honduras. The Baltimore Sun reports that Efrain Diaz Arrivillaga, then a delegate in the Honduran Congress and a voice of dissent, told the Sun that he complained to Negroponte on numerous occasions about the Honduran military�s human rights abuses. Rick Chidester, a junior embassy official under Negroponte, reported to the Sun that he was forced to omit an exhaustive gathering of human rights violations from his 1982 State Department report. Sister Laetitia Bordes went on a fact-finding delegation to Honduras in May 1982 to investigate the whereabouts of 32 Salvadoran nuns and women of faith who fled to Honduras in 1981 after Archbishop Oscar Romero�s assassination. Negroponte claimed the embassy knew nothing, but in 1996, Negroponte�s predecessor Jack Binns reported that the women had been captured, tortured, and then crammed into helicopters from which they were tossed to their deaths.

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[Edited on 28-4-2004 by Colonel]

It's a bluff. If they had 15 million, they could afford some better weapons then AK's and napalm bombs.

Originally posted by Tassadar
It's a bluff. If they had 15 million, they could afford some better weapons then AK's and napalm bombs.

Playing Devil's advocate for a moment, is it cheaper to pay someone $15 million to have done the job or to spend the money on tools to try it for yourself and possibly fail?

Either way, this situation isn't just dangerous or insane. It's far worse than that. The people involved on both sides are well past the point of backing down, it would seem. The Iraqi insurgents gain support by declaring this as a holy way. The US refuses to back down, believing that a secular democratic government is necessary in the region, despite the President's seemingly-constant references to his Christian faith as what sustains him.

Welcome to the world of love and compassion that religion claims to seek....