How many suicide bombers?

[Francis]

I read an AP article today and have included a couple of paragraphs here.
The article is about the senate hearings on the oil for food program.
What jumped out at me was the assertion that investigators had discovered millions diverted to support the families of suicide bombers with amounts ranging from $15,000 to $25,000.
It is well known that Saddam did give cash to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, but millions?
if they all got the max $25,000 that would be 400 per million, so if the plural of million means only 2 million then that would be 800 Palestinian suicide bombers. Have there really been that many?




NEW YORK - Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, say congressional investigators who uncovered evidence of the money trail.


The former Iraqi president tapped secret bank accounts in Jordan — where he collected bribes from foreign companies and individuals doing illicit business under the humanitarian program — to reward the families up to $25,000 each, investigators told the Associated Press.

Documents prepared for today's hearing by the House International Relations Committee outline the new findings about how Saddam funneled money to the Palestinian families.

Investigators examining the oil-for-food program felt it was "important for us to determine whether the profits from his corruption were put toward terrorist purposes," committee chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said of Saddam's well-known financial support of suicide bombers.


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2904687