Some Arab Groups Criticize Ashcroft's Offer of Citizenship for Information as Akin to Bribery

Associated Press ^ | AP-ES-11-30-01 1002EST | By Michael Dabney

[ppaul]

They're right.
They should instead be offered a noose.

[jimfree]

It's just business. What's the price we have to pay to whom to get what we need to get? Calling it a bribe is fine with me. I find no insult. To me it's only business. There is no Arab or Islamic group that I currently regard as sufficiently moral on this topic to lecture me.

[wjcsux]

If this guy doesn't like this, he ought to get his sorry ass on his camel, and go back to where he came from! These arrogant ragheads are really starting to piss me off! If they don't like our "opressive" country, they can leave and take a RAT under each arm with them!

[LibertyGirl77]

Why are they using a bunch of 20 year old muslim/commie students from Ann Arbor to give serious commentary on anything the FBI decides on? The title "Some Arab Groups..." implies more widespread disapproval, but if you really read the story, it just sounds like some chick and her friend started a Muslim Club at their college and wrote a press release.

[Let's Roll]

Bribery? Ya' think? DUH! What a maroon!

[Dante3]

I find this particular offer by Ashcroft utterly offensive. American citizenship should not be for sale or offered as some lottery prize. If those people are harboring terrorists and only give information for personal gain, they don't deserve US citizenship.

Among other abuses, this also lends for hardened terrorists to give up some minor terrorists to gain citizenship.