Pakistan May Have al-Qaida's No. 2 Man Surrounded

Peter Stickney wrote:

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Guy Alcala writes:

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You think $25 million is a SMALL bounty?!?! H'mmm. You're really Bill Gates, and I
claim my 5 pounds ;-)

Actually, when you're dealing with, say, illiterate and immumerate
peasant types (Such as are, unfortunately, still by far the most
common folks you're going to meet in, say Afghanistan, or Pakistan,
ore pretty much anywhere else in that corner of the world, even in the
cities, it very quickly gets to the point where, by raising the
reward, all you're doing it trading one unimaginably huge sum for
another. 25 million, 50 million, even 1 million - it's all pretty
much the same to folks who are still counting in 1, 2, several,
many... (Actually, the biggest number that they seem to be able to get
their minds around is 40-50.) I kind of like the idea of dropping hte
reward, and publicizing that fact. Hit 'em in their vanity, you're
almost sure to get a reaction. In fact, let's set up a scheduled
rollback on the reward. For every two months that passes, we knock a
million off of the reward. Then we can sturt in with the derision &
humiliation. Start a campaign to cast ridicule on the Terrs and their
cause, really do the Saturday Night Live thing (From back when it was
funny) on them. (Look what Garret Morris did for Idi Amin, after
all). Put David Hasselhof & Pamela Anderson in it, and we can
guarantee a wide-ranging World-wide viewership.

I think I'll go do lunch, now.

Definitely seemed to be an incipient chemcial imbalance developing there, for lack of
nourishment ;-)

Guy