People are too lazy to read the article.
This is blockbuster news, proof of direct collaboration between Bin Laden and Saddam -- with hard evidence of faxes, corroborating witnesses, and a credible witness who is revealing it, and all people commenting on is the peculiar shape of the pearl.
This is serious proof -- you don't give $40 million dollar gifts to just anybody. Maybe Bin Laden was giving this to Saddam, in exchange for Saddam providing him with WMD.
I should have made it CLEAR NOT TO LOOK AT THE PEARL!