Saddam Raises Bomber Pay to $25,000, Rumsfeld Says by reuters(posted by Guido) Wednesday April 03, 2002 at 11:44 PM |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has raised the amount offered to relatives of suicide bombers from $10,000 per family to $25,000, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday.
"Here is an individual who is the head of a country, Iraq, who has proudly, publicly made a decision to go out and actively promote and finance human sacrifice for families that will have their youngsters kill innocent men, women and children," Rumsfeld said.
Though he did not say so, he appeared to refer to the current wave of suicide bombings on Israeli civilian targets.
"I am simply trying to let the people of Iraq understand what their leadership is doing, to let the people of the Middle East and the rest of the world ... know what is in fact being done to arm young people and send them out to blow up restaurants and shopping malls and pizza parlors," he said.
www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=771897
more from the same by Guido Wednesday April 03, 2002 at 11:48 PM |
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1634305,00.html
Rumsfeld is a criminal... by red kitten Wednesday April 03, 2002 at 11:51 PM |
redkitten@indymedia.be |
...he would say anything to justify the war he's planning -with the US's lobbies- against Irak. Some month ago he would have said the same about Bin Laden or the FARCs or Milosevic or you!
This article just shows what Reuters and such worth: they're at their best when it's about helping war propaganda of the mighties!
Yak...
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same subject in the guardian by guido Wednesday April 03, 2002 at 11:53 PM |
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1634305,00.html
same subject in the guardian by guido Wednesday April 03, 2002 at 11:53 PM |
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1634305,00.html