# Who gets the 25 million reward for capturing 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 2, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623 "2003-03-02T19:23:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/1 "2003-03-02T19:23:43Z")
[Alleged 9/11 mastermind nabbed](http://msnbc.com/news/879289.asp?0cv=CB10) The Pakistani government, or do rewards only get paid to individuals not nations? > [@](#): > > ``` > He is likely to be interrogated by the same CIA officers who have been talking with other top al-Qaida operatives already captured by the U.S., according to a senior U.S. official. > “A guy who has been interrogating Abu Zubaydah or [Ramzi] Bin al-Shibh, both of whom worked with this guy, will know a lot about him and his operations from those discussions,” the official said. > Mohammed, 37, has not been charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, but he has been charged in a 1995 terror plot. He is the first person on the FBI’s most-wanted terror suspects list to be arrested. The U.S. government was offering up to $25 million for information leading to his capture > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/2 "2003-03-02T19:29:06Z")
Whoever successfully sues the US gov’t for the reward shall receive it. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/3 "2003-03-02T19:41:09Z")
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!- ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/4 "2003-03-02T21:42:12Z")
Um, where do you see someone suggesting in this thread that Musharraf should get the reward? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/5 "2003-03-02T22:43:40Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/6 "2003-03-02T23:20:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/7 "2003-03-02T23:40:02Z")
Evidently the neighbors tipped off the police From [here](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030310-427976,00.html): “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. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/8 "2003-03-03T00:34:45Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SRB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SRB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SRB)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/9 "2003-03-03T01:43:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/10 "2003-03-10T04:41:09Z")
The Hindustan Times [reports](http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_208769,00130018.htm) 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 ? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/11 "2003-03-10T16:12:41Z")
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](http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/1999/bfeb/02_reward.html) ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-gets-the-25-million-reward-for-capturing-9-11-planner-khalid-shaikh-mohammed/158623/12 "2003-03-12T12:43:00Z")
There is some doubt whether Khalid was actually captured or if so when. see [http://www.complete911timeline.org/main/essayksmcapture.html](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