Bin Laden's Head Now Worth 50 Million.

Time Magazine

[Squantos]

There has been many yet Uncle Sugar and the CIA have gone out of their way to hamper the private efforts. They discovered some ex-green beret's (SF not Girl Scouts) in country that were "really" extracting some good info from high ranking Bin Laden troops and then busted the former SF troops for torture and not being sanctioned by the local or foreign goobermints...etc etc

.... Ya have to go native to get this guy IMHO and have really big brass ones to wade into that region alone to do so....... It's 50 Million I'll never earn ....... Unless I get into his cab or walk into his liquor store or something here in the states............

[freedumb2003]

Go figger

Why put a bounty on his head if no one can do the work to collect it?

[conservativebabe]

If I could, I'd give them bin Laden's head on a stick for free.

[aculeus]

Why isn't it a "dead or alive" offer?

Or is it?

[Squantos]

I think they paid off the guy who ratted out Saddam and he's of course changed his name and moved to some other country........

These SF guys played contractors and alledgedly "all" contractors must be sanctioned by either our state department or the local goobermints of which neither were in this teams situation.

I'd suggest that if such "permission" or official sanction was granted I'd make a contract to share a solid third the bounty with that goobermint who gets me the get out of jail free pass to work the problem. But who's to trust. Too risky.

I still believe the best way to snag Bin Laden is with the UCAV's that can vulture his rabbit ass 24 & 7. Of course the Paki's and Chinese would squeel pig if the UCAV's wandered out of the Finger region Bin laden is alledged to be squatting these days.......

No good answer to the solution from me.....

[Blood of Tyrants]

I'm in. When are we leaving? I'm thinking .338 Lapua with a really nice Leopold scope zeroed in at about 500 yards.

[Destro]

That's the stupidity of the Federal govt for you. The bounty is for snitches - i.e. someone close to OBL will turn him in for the money. But the people he roams around with could care less about money and the natives that shelter A) have no idea what a million dollars is (their world is a barter economy - so many goats for so many chickens) and B) they are obligated under the age old hospitality taboo to take care of and protect their guest.

Now the reason Uncle Sam won't authorize private bounty hunters is many and varied - I wonder if they are also restricted by international treaties doing away with issuing 'write of marquis'.

[Squantos]

Good point....

[Destro]

The bounty is useless - to Osama and his crew this is more proof of the corrupt and cowardly nature of the West. Many Americans think the world thinks like Americans and that money can make men turn to snitches. Sadly, al-Qaeda does not think like an inner city gang banger homeboy. Examples of Iraq Arabs snitching proves to al-Qaeda that the Western influence is a corrupt and corrosive dishonorable one.

Like I said - that's the Federal Govt for ya.

[xzins]

He's in New York working as a stock broker OR he's a DNA smear in some cave someplace.

[JudyinCanada]

That is quite an increase in worth...must be in cattle futures.

It has the makings for a movie...a group of head-hunters making their way through the mountains of whatever country, cave by cave.

[hchutch]

Last I heard, Lozzi's group still had that $1 billion hit contract out on him...

[b4its2late]

Does it have to be attached to anything?

[AdmSmith]

I guess this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155685/posts?page=1194#1194 is related to ObL and not to Iran.

[SevenMinusOne]

No good answer to the solution from me

You have it about exactly right - Simply no easy solutions at this point -

Only viable option....but one that would still take much time is finally allowing US SOF to operate independently in the Pakistan border region - (but even with this we are still looking for a needle in a stack of safety pins). With winter setting in lets hope UBL decided to venture into more comfortable surroundings this season.

[wardaddy]

what you said.

[Squantos]

Seems the Christians In Action would want some NOC's involved in that region actively seeking to "kill" vs just "locate" UBL......

Oh well, as ya state, ideas are cheap, solutions are weak.........Stay safe !

[ken21]

the recipient would need $49 million for security to keep the moslems from killing him.

[hoosierham]

I still think the reward shoud have been some very low figure ,like $1.35, just to emphasize the true value of a murderer.

[ken21]

yeah, and bill clinton should have to pay it out of his own pocket, for not taking out bin laden earlier!