Was the Minister of Defense of Iraq paid off by US ?

[kentuck]

A CNN news story reported today that Sultan Ahmed, who was in the infamous deck of cards, had surrendered to US forces. Supposedly he had been living in Mosul, even as the Hussein sons were being shot full of holes. He negotiated his surrender with a condition within about his diabetes.

Someone suggested in passing that he was the military leader that was paid off by the US to encourage the Revolutionary guard to not fight during the invasion. The Iraqi troops just faded out of sight and did not offer any resistance in the march to Baghdad. Just how much money did this Sultan traitor receive? Anybody heard anymore about this?

[madrchsod]

1. yes this was

a story right after the war "finished" . the problem is we have no hard figures about how many iraqi`s died in combat. the problem with where they went is- what are they doing now? are they involved in the operations against our troops? someone is doing alot of damage to the oil lines,water lines,and of course the un building and others....

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. Here's a link

Senior Iraqi officers who commanded troops crucial to the defence of key Iraqi cities were bribed not to fight by American special forces, the US general in charge of the war has confirmed.

Well before hostilities started, special forces troops and intelligence agents paid sums of money to a number of Iraqi officers, whose support was deemed important to a swift, low-casualty victory.

General Tommy Franks, the US army commander for the war, said these Iraqi officers had acknowledged their loyalties were no longer with the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, but with their American paymasters. As a result, many officers chose not to defend their positions as American and British forces pushed north from Kuwait.

"I had letters from Iraqi generals saying: 'I now work for you'," General Franks said.

It is not clear which Iraqi officers were bribed, how many were bought off or at what cost.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=409090

[Starpass]

3. oh--get this in the "nice" news from Iraq today

When MSNBC was telling us that Bush wants to get all the nice, positive news out today because things really are going so gosh darn well,they used the surrender of this guy to demonstrate it---it kid you not. They said it was a real gentlemanly surrender like the kind we saw in the Civil War and gentlemen's wars of old. Okay, that said to me "what the fuck gives"----what deals have they just struck with this bastard. Hubby saw it on the news and said, "well, I wonder where in the US this one is going to live with his new millions in his pocket"!!