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Welcome to America, here's $500,000
CNN/Money ^ | May 9, 2003

Posted on 05/10/2003 5:59:44 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

On April 29, as reward for his bravery in helping U.S. troops rescue captured Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a Nasiriya hospital, Iraqi lawyer Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief was granted asylum in the United States. Now, barely two weeks after arriving in America, he's cashing in.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: author; book; harpercollins

1 posted on 05/10/2003 5:59:44 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
If hildebeast can get $8million for a work of fiction I fail to see what right anyone has to complain about this payment.
2 posted on 05/10/2003 6:01:13 PM PDT by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
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To: bruinbirdman
I don't begrudge this guy a dime of it. If he'd have been caught doing what he did, he'd have hanging from a meathook.
3 posted on 05/10/2003 6:01:58 PM PDT by Nick Danger (The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
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To: bruinbirdman
Nothing wrong with that.

Welcome to America!
4 posted on 05/10/2003 6:02:16 PM PDT by MWS (Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum.)
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To: bruinbirdman
WHAT A COUNTRY!!!
5 posted on 05/10/2003 6:04:53 PM PDT by DD938 (Bring an old sailor home for Sunday dinner.......maybe meet your sister)
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To: bruinbirdman
Why would anyone pay $500,000+ for this report?
6 posted on 05/10/2003 6:04:54 PM PDT by UnBlinkingEye
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To: bruinbirdman
He better have received something from the government as well. Let us always help those who help us, and let those who oppose us beware.

If we're going to be an empire, we should at least do it right!
7 posted on 05/10/2003 6:08:08 PM PDT by Coyoteman
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To: Nick Danger
I don't begrudge this guy a dime of it. If he'd have been caught doing what he did, he'd have hanging from a meathook.
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More like he would be watching his wife and daughter be hung from meat hooks.....THAT is what impressed me about this guy from the beginning.

One thing to risk yourself, another to risk everything.
8 posted on 05/10/2003 6:09:48 PM PDT by najida (Yes I have a truck, and no, I won't help you move.)
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To: bruinbirdman
Only in AMERICA!...good fer him...better than some A-Hole dem gettin' it....BTW, am I paying fer this?...nahhh.

FMCDH

9 posted on 05/10/2003 6:18:24 PM PDT by nothingnew
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To: Coyoteman
He better have received something from the government as well.

He did, he lives here now and that is proper for the risk he took. I'm glad he'll have some cash to start his life here. I'm also very happy that cash came from the private sector.
10 posted on 05/10/2003 6:28:35 PM PDT by Crusader21stCentury
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To: OldFriend
$500,00? That means he's rich! Tax him! Tax him quick! Tax him! Tax him! For the good of the children! Tax him!
11 posted on 05/10/2003 6:48:15 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan (Speech on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative)
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To: bruinbirdman
What he has to say is better than whatever Bj and Hillary ever have someone else write for them.

The US showed their appreciation for saving PFC Lynch by bringing him and his family to America. He has a job. Someone offered him money for his story and he took it. This sounds like an American success story to me.

12 posted on 05/10/2003 7:55:18 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: OldFriend
And the Hollywood skanks will pay him two million for some PC movie they are going to put out. He'll be living in Hollywood by Christmas......
13 posted on 05/10/2003 8:01:04 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: bruinbirdman
He's earned very penny, and then some. Many of our own home grown liberals would not have exhibited the courage that this man did.
14 posted on 05/10/2003 8:01:19 PM PDT by yooper
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