Posted on 08/27/2005 8:59:54 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The owner of a Hayward pizza parlor will serve four months of home detention and pay a five-thousand-dollar fine, after pleading guilty to illegally transferring money to a bounty hunter out to kill Osama bin Laden.
Forty-one-year-old Noor Alocozy also was sentenced to three years of probation today in federal court.
Authorities say Alocozy transferred $1 million dollars out of the country between 2002 and 2003. They say some of that money reached Jonathan "Jack" Idema, a jailed American mercenary who claimed he was on a counterterrorism mission with the U-S government.
Authorities say Idema -- a former Green Beret -- was a client of Alocozy's money-transfer business, which operated out of his Liberty Pizza restaurant. Idema is now serving time in an Afghan prison after being convicted of running a private torture camp.
Alocozy pleaded guilty in May of illegally transferring money to unidentified individuals in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.
I wonder what would happen if thousands of us offered donations for a bounty on bin laden.
US Government STILL has a $25M bounty on OBL, I can't believe this guy would pay someone $1M unless he was financing the "hit" in order to share the reward.
Government doesn't like competition.
OOps, googled it and seems the House voted to double it to $50M at some point.
I'm so tired of government being able to do things that we can't, for example lotteries and hits on people wanted dead or alive by our government.
We need Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner!
Your kidding its illegal to kill Osama Bin Laden ?
I can understand it being illegal to hire someone to kill say some other citizen but a bonna fide avowed member of Al Qaida should be fair game.
Heck besides the reward the head should be taken to a taxidermist and be able to be moutned on the wall of whomever bags him.
That's ridiculous, why don't they spend their time going after the guys who have decided to kill all of us.
If Liberty Pizza is still running while he is under house arrest I would suggest people in the area frequent it.
Hey, this is the way antagonists break up those hard-to-fight enclaves. The Colombians did it in the rural areas against FARC-- they put bounties on the FARC leadership of sizable sums, and guess who showed up? A whole bunch of former Russian Spetznaz commandos. They even brought their own gear. All they wanted was rough coordinates and some photographs. We did this during the Balkan war as well-- $3M per Serbian general. Of course, we were probably shooting at the wrong guys, but money is money when you're a mercenary.
Reads as though a serendipitous franchise scheme was behind this, it's just that Afghanis find the anchovie-pepperoni mix to be torturous.
$1 million-That's a lotta Pepperoni!
Oh yeah, Mount bin laden with a big ole hog doggie stylin him and take lots of pictures to send to the mideast.
That's some fierce friggin' pizza.
Then again, it might also be a convenient cover to launder opium money.
The private sector can get things done quickly, efficiently, and on budget.
The gub'mint can't.
I'd trust the private sector to capture Bin Ladin 100x over before I'd trust our elected masters to do it.
Hey Bart, I just found the perfect summer camp for you for next year!
Elvis Bin Laden ping
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We need Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner!
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Talkin' about the man.
How screwed up is this place when muslim countries support and encourage terrorists to attack us but our government does more to keep us from fighting back. We should start sending suicide bombers to mecca and give them a taste.
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