>>>I wonder if we will find out what really happened. It could have been someone who did it for the reward. The tip could have come from a rival al-Qaeda faction. Or who knows what else.
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>>Being voted out of office? "And now the result of the vote to have al-Zarkawi sold for glory and $25M worth of weapons: 5 against, 234 for it...".
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>You can't actually believe that we are going to pay out $25M to anyone remotely related to the terrorist network. If anyone gets it, they will be put into hiding in another country. The money will not go back into the network.

How would anyone but one at least remotely connected have the information in the first place? And if the ransom is not paid now for the head of the guy that the US has priced so high, why would anyone be willing to risk the revenge of the followers next time? Not paying now would be very bad propaganda.