BIN LADEN nur noch 5 $ ÙSD Wert..??
Geschrieben von peacemaker2002 am 27. März 2002 12:09:58:
wie kommt es das der Staatsfeind No. 1 nur noch ein Bruchteil wert ist..?
vorher 25Mill. USD und jetzt 5Mill. USD?
sowas ist doch nicht normal...oder..? alles sehr verdächtigt...
auch das Wort OBL bei G. Bush j. nirgends mehr wo auftaucht...?
US reduces reward on Bin Laden
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTATIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002 8:02:10 PM ]
ASHINGTON: The popular American theory that money talks, or at least it makes people talk, is in dire threat of being disproved in Afghanistan. The $25 million bounty Uncle Sam has offered for information leading to the capture of Osama Bin Laden hasn't worked, because, US officials are now saying, the Afghans can't comprehend just how large the sum is.
The result: Uncle Sam is now "downsizing" the reward. The US will now offer to build a road, dig a well, or give away a flock of sheep to Afghan communities that rat on Bin Laden. The change in the "booty treatment" comes after American officials in the region found that poor Afghan peasants were clueless about Big Money. A general reportedly asked an Afghan what he could do with $25 million if he helped the United States find Osama Bin Laden. The local replied that the money might be enough to feed his nine children for a year.So the Bush administration has now considered a $5 million discretionary fund to pay for basic inducements such as cash, livestock or help drilling a well. The hope is that average Afghans, many of whom are poor and illiterate, can relate to owning a flock of sheep more than becoming a millionaire.
"The big rewards are beyond the comprehension of the Afghan people," an unnamed senior administration official has been quoted as saying. "The smaller rewards are for anything the Americans think the Afghans would like to have."
While the multi-million rewards have failed to work in Afghanistan, Pakistanis recognise big bucks when they see it. US law enforcement officials arrested Ramzi Yousef and Mir Aimal Kansi in Pakistan in the 1990s after locals provided information leading to their capture – for $2 million each.
But Bin Laden has proved to be a different deal – or no deal. The master terrorist has just disappeared into thin air – so much so that he is also vanishing from the vocabulary of embarrassed US officials who made him the center of the war on terrorism.
Reminded of the quarry at a press conference on Wednesday, President Bush said the war on terrorism was bigger than any one person. He said he does not know where the al-Qaeda leader is and dismissed the man he once wanted "dead or alive" as "a person who has now been marginalised." He called Bin Laden "the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match. "I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run," Bush said.