Senate votes to double reward for Bin Laden's capture

[brooklynite]

Source: LA Times

WASHINGTON -- The Senate, frustrated with its apparent inability to redirect the course of the Iraq war, voted today to nip around the edges by doubling the reward for the capture of Osama bin Laden.

But the overarching goal of the Senate's Democratic majority — mandating a timetable for the withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops — appeared to be out of reach.

Senate rules allow 41 of the 100 senators to block an issue from coming to a vote, and there are 49 Republicans in the Senate, only a handful of whom have suggested they might turn against President Bush and vote for withdrawal.

So the Senate contented itself today with the Bin Laden amendment, which pointed up the war's failure to take the inspirational leader of the 2001 terrorist attacks out of circulation. The measure, sponsored by North Dakota's two Democratic senators, Byron L. Dorgan and Kent Conrad, would double the bounty on Bin Laden to $50 million.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-ex-bush13jul14,0,2210167.story?coll=la-home-center

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Well, that will make a difference...

Would it be worth pointing out that, for Pakistani tribesmen in the area where Bin Laden is hiding, a one million dollar reward is already such a transcendentally high number, that increasing it to five, ten, twenty or fifty million isn't going to have an impact -- either they don't know where he is either, or they don't want to tell us, or they don't think they'll live long enough to enjoy their newfound wealth?

[AndyA]

1. I say we send Dog the Bounty Hunter over there to find OBL and

kick his sorry rotten ass.

Dog will know what to do with the $50 million. (Give it to his wife, Beth.) :rofl:

[Ian David]

20. "Hello? Is anyone in the cave? We're here looking for Osama.."

"Hello? Is anyone in the cave? We're here looking for Osama.."



"He no here."

"Do you know where he is?"

"He staying with his friend George. In Texas."

[dubyaD40web]

2. It's a start.

However, OBL is not the only one we can worry about now. We've already created thousands of terrorists just by being in Iraq.

[tomhayes]

3. Why not make it 1 billion?

Use my tax dollars on this, I don't mind.

[Tuttle]

4. Whatever became of the reward for Saddam?

And whatever became of that loud-mouth Bruce Willis' reward? I think he doubled the reward or something... zzzz

I think when these bounties go un-awarded, that, too undermines our credibility in these Arabian countries.

Tut-tut

[booksenkatz]

5. Why not make it 50 skillion hillion jillion?

:silly:

It's never going to be paid anyway.

[shain from kane]

10. 50 brazillion.

[everydayis911]

32. Love it

That is what Bush would say.

[Rambis]

6. 5 brazillion

who gives a rats arse catching one guy is not the problem we gave him his wet dream of invading Iraq now terrorists make themselves he isn't needed anymore.

[katsy]

7. Imagine what even $25M means for any person in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Why wasn't OBL caught for the $25M bounty and should it be any different with a $50M bounty?

A gratuitous gesture at best.

Capturing OBL was never a high priority for the military when they had a clue where he was hiding so what's this BS gesture about?

Hello! Senators! :hi: Offering $50M doesn't make you seem tough on anything! Grab your rifles and head to Afghanistan and capture him yourselves... you spineless wimps!

[stressfulreality]

8. but is it more than the CIA pays him? nt

[Pastiche423]

9. Stupid waste of time and money

since OBL died in December 2001.

[shain from kane]

11. It's like putting a bounty on Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, or Superman. They're either dead, or

never existed.

[Pastiche423]

13. Yep

TPTB MUST have a boogeyman. They MUST keep the masses in fear.

[lyonn]

25. That is sad, we don't know whether that sucker is dead or alive

But the bushies use him every chance they get to hype the fear (election time) and the terrorist use him as a hero. It is suspect that there are no new videos of Osama.

And sadly, I am more afraid of george than Osama.

[Pastiche423]

27. A dead or alive hero?

It din't strike me, until the latter part of 2002, that his followers were no longer talking about him. W/his ego, it doesn't make sense that he would have told them to keep mum.

So I began a search. One article after another claimed he was burried in an unmarked grave in Afghanistan. I waited to see if they (those that reported his death) were trying to protect him or fake out the West.

Then came the fake videos. (The fat vs the skinny OBL.)I dabble in digital art and even I could have created a video that appeared more real.

But what convinced me was the video that was released close to the 2004 election. I was born at night, but not last night.

Throughout the administration and the MSM, this badass, evilest-doer had to be alive. Dead would not suit their purposes.

[redqueen]

12. What a frickin joke.

I can't believe they have the temerity to try to get MORE money for the job they do SO frickin badly.

:grr:

[pinniped]

14. FN stupid.

I know of only one way. Reclassify him as a #2 guy and he's good as dead.

[Ian David]

15. And Larry Flynt has offered $1 Million to anyone who can document Bin Laden getting a blow-job! n/t

[pinniped]

19. ?

[Jackpine Radical]

30. Holy shit.

You gonna share with us when Flynt pays off?

[pinniped]

34. Sure, but Pammy deserves at least 1/2 of it.

.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Useless and dumb

Fucking posturing idiots.

[Zhade]

17. We should band together as citizens and offer a reward ourselves.

Because the biggest terrorism threat currently resides - illegally, mind you - in the White House.

[Ian David]

23. No, you can't. Someone went to jail for that.

It is apparently illegal for a private citizen to offer a reward on Bin Laden.

I'll see if I can google that one.

So far, all I found was THIS story:

Hacker Offering $10Mil For Bin Laden Gets Death Threats

Newsbytes News Network, Sept 19, 2001

Kim Schmitz, the flamboyant former German hacker who last week offered a $10 million reward for the capture of suspected terrorist Osama Bin Laden, is offering his hacking services to international authorities to fight terrorism.

Schmitz, now a millionaire and CEO of Kimvestor AG, also revealed that he has received numerous death threats because of his reward for Bin Laden, a Saudi-born millionaire suspected of being the driving force behind the last week's deadly attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

In an impassioned plea on his Web site addressed "to governments around the world," Schmitz writes: "We cannot allow terrorism to destroy our modern civilization. The killing of innocent people worldwide must come to an end."

More:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_2001_Sept_19/ai_78407872

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. oh by the way I thought he was dead (twice)

or was that someone else

dead or alive (twice)

[KansDem]

21. Double it, triple it, quadruple it, 10-tuple it...it won't matter.

We'll never find Bush's pal and business partner...

[Orsino]

22. Who?

We're busy fighting Saddam. Don't change the subject.

[DemSoccerMom]

24. If we could just get

sharks with freakin' lazer beams, everything would be OK.

Of course, they'd have to be sand sharks in this instance, but as long as they have lazer beams, it'll work.

[Javaman]

26. perhaps if they made it a reward that people in that region could actually use...

a herd of goats, land, etc. But if they did that, that would mean that they really wanted to find the cash cow.

OBL is worth more to the pigs in congress alive than dead. Once dead or captured, the gravy train for everyone in washington is over.

I'm just waiting for someone to use OBL image as a marketing tool for toothpaste for victory or anal beads for patriotism!

Once this bullshit propagandized war on terror becomes no longer profitable then you will see OBL captured.

And when and if that day ever comes, the person or persons who are responsible for the "capture" will be either someone that is some how ineligible (got to read that fine print) or some crazy ass goat herder that hasn't a clue what a dollar is let alone 50 bazillion dollars are and will happily go away with a few goats, a mule and half a dozen new wives.

The money on the other hand will be all but forgotten about in the "euphoria" of OBL's capture, and will be tucked away in someones trust fund or bank account in switzerland.

[Megahurtz]

28. And The General Public

will still fall for this shit. :eyes:

[Warren Stupidity]

29. Oh well then all is forgiven.

What a fucking bunch of tools. I give up.

[everydayis911]

31. Does the Senate know

That 9/11 is NOT on Bin Ladens laundry list of terra according to the FBI? Do they really know if he is still alive? How come they don't investigate 9/11 and see that our own government was behind 9/11. Just ask 3 questions One to Bush as to how he claimed he saw the first plane hit at school. Second ask Darth Cheney how come there was a stand down order that day. And last but not least ask Rumsfailed where the 2.3 Trillion dollars are? Ask these questions like Clinton had to answer his, with a grand jury and live on TV.
I think that would open more eyes to impeachment and maybe put it back on the table where it belongs. This is just grand standing and the Dems have no spine. Otherwise old Harriet Miers would be in jail right now. They make me sick.

[silverojo]

33. Here's the answer:

either they don't know where he is either, or they don't want to tell us, or they don't think they'll live long enough to enjoy their newfound wealth

The answer is behind Door #2: They don't want to tell us.

[pinniped]

35. This reward will never be collected. Also, the amount is crap compared to....

what one could score by working at a bank with a couple of insiders ($282,000,000.00).

[Doctor_J]

36. OK, it should happen any minute now

this will do the trick

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