Who gets the 25 million reward for capturing 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?

Alleged 9/11 mastermind nabbed

The Pakistani government, or do rewards only get paid to individuals not nations?

Whoever successfully sues the US gov’t for the reward shall receive it.

Oh fucking please. jiggling the coin purse to get the peasants riled up is not comprarable to billion-dollar dealings between governments. Do you REALLY expect musharef to even bring up the paltry 25 mil?

The 25 mil was for the farmer or shopkeeper, not the god-damned ruler of pakistan!-

Um, where do you see someone suggesting in this thread that Musharraf should get the reward?

Hey, **zuma[/]b, take a pill. The OP just asked a perfectly legitimate question, and made none of the assertions implied in your post.

In answer to the OP, i really don’t know. The article you linked to said that CIA people and the Pakistani government cooperated to capture him. I imagine the CIA people would be excluded from the reward given that they were doing their job (although i’m not certain about this).

The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities must have received intelligence from someone though; they are not psychics. Who ever tipped them off should receive the reward.

Evidently the neighbors tipped off the police From here:

“Neighbors, wary of the lone Arab who appeared in their working-class area, tipped off the police, hoping for a reward.”

Whether they’ll get it or not is a good question.

I believe the reward is UP TO $25M. That doesn’t by any stretch of the imagination mean you get $25M does it?

Now if you could turn in Osama & Hussein, maybe you’d get a bigger share :slight_smile:

I hope whoever turned him in…gets the moola. I’m wondering if anyone knows exactly what methods the CIA is using to extract information; the news reports say that he is being held and questioned outside the U.S. where they have more leeway in questioning methods. Reports do say his family is in custody also.

The Hindustan Times reports that the 25 million reward money enticed an egyptian radical to rat on Khalid. The man came to the attention of the authorities by getting arrested at an al Qaeda safe-house. I wonder if he’ll donate any of his booty to charity ?

As a side note, it appears that it works both ways:

“The weekly magazine Nabadh Al-Shabab wrote on February 1 that Saddam Hussein has offered a 25 million dinar reward (about 13,000) to any Iraqi shooting down a US or British aircraft, 10 million dinars (about 5,000) for anyone bringing a missile and 5 million dinars (about $ 2,500) for anyone capturing a western pilot”
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/1999/bfeb/02_reward.html

There is some doubt whether Khalid was actually captured or if so when. see http://www.complete911timeline.org/main/essayksmcapture.html . Quite frankly I don’t beleive anything about this whole issue anymore. there has been much too much spin and misinformation from our side