[dennisw]

Dunnigan and others said that the reward money was NOT very useful because no one would live long enough to spend it, and also because they just cannot fathom $10 million. It's beyond them.

How hard is it to fashion a reward that any Afghani or Pakistani can understand? Sheesh!!!!!  So promise  2,000 sheep, 500 cattle, 500 chickens, 3,000 acres of land good for grazing, enough free lumber to build fences and 20 houses (for extended family) and $50,000 per year!

[LS]

Yah, I agree. Just reporting what he said. I think it is more that no one will live to spend it, certainly not in that section of the world. A few years ago, in one of our 1993-related arrests, some informants had to be admitted to the U.S. and given citizenship in addition to the money, due to threats on their lives.

[jiggyboy]

Remember that you're talking about people who don't even really have mathematics, and if they do, it's the mathematics of the sixth century, when "zero" was still being debated. Random tribesmen really aren't much further along than the "one, two, many" counting system in some of the remote islands of the Pacific.

If I had the time to rummage around, I'd find articles about the very first offers of $25M for OBL and one-eyed Omar. One guy said he could probably buy balloons for everybody he knows in his 40-person tribe. That sort of thing.