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$1 Billion Terrorist Bounty Fund to be Set Up by L.A. Telecom Executives
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| Sept. 14, 2001
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 09/14/2001 7:09:28 PM PDT by StealthChild
Friday, September 14, 2001
WHISPER OF THE DAY
$1 Billion Bounty on Bin Laden
It was bound to happen: A group of Los Angeles telecom millionaires is setting up a "bounty fund" to raise $1 billion or more to "wipe out" the terrorists and harboring governments responsible for Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, and Pennsylvania. "Now it's time to wipe out the wasp nests of terrorism," says Edward Lozzi, a West Coast PR agent lined up to handle the fund. Lozzi says in an interview that all Americans will be encouraged to donate and that the money will be used to hire mercenaries to kill or arrest those responsible. He singled out the government's top suspect: Osama bin Laden. And if the government gets there first, the money will be donated to Tuesday's victims. He wouldn't identify the business people yet but said they plan to come forward and even set up a Web page for donations once the dust settles. He described the bounty fund creators as Internet and telecommunications executives who have been big contributors to both President Bush and former President Clinton. "I don't think there's any American who wouldn't donate," he tells Whispers. Naturally, the government doesn't support mob rule, and he says the executives have considered that but are still moving forward. In fact, he adds, the business people are already raising money. Lozzi owns Edward Lozzi & Associate, a public relations and media consultant firm, [http://www.lozzipr.com/] of Beverly Hills, and is a former press aide to former President Bush.
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YES. Capitalism at its finest.
To: StealthChild
I think we should give the US government a chance to go in and fumigate the wasps' nests first, but this is an excellent thing to have for the long run. We may NEVER be able to fully eliminate these people, but we can keep them permanently on the run.
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posted on
09/14/2001 7:11:21 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
To: StealthChild
They need to award this to any man that brings in Bin Laden. Dead or alive. He'll be delivered before the weekend is up with this much money at stake...
To: StealthChild
Lozzi says in an interview that all Americans will be encouraged to donate and that the money will be used to hire mercenaries to kill or arrest those responsible. does this guy have a address?
To: StealthChild
This sounds like a great idea. With $1B to gain, perhaps our enemies can be found and killed more quickly. People forget that private armies were an effective and significant part of the US Civil War, and of WWI.
At the same time, it would be good if whoever was doing this could get a letter of reprisal (that's a concept that we haven't used in a long time, but it's right out of the Constitution) so as to make this legal and to forestall the chance that trial lawyers could get any of that $1B.
To: StealthChild
A thousand soldiers of fortune each getting 100 grand to go get him. That might work.
To: StealthChild
Before you get too excited about this, I suggest that you check out the PR firm's website and see some of their featured clients and events:
http://www.lozzipr.com/
To: StealthChild
To: doug from upland
Do you get the $ 900 million as a finders fee? ;)
To: TAP ONLINE
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Isn't that fair?
To: StealthChild
America is great . . . guns & money . . . we can't lose. {;o)
To: xm177e2
Just let Congress issue a letter of Marque and Reprissal against them to make it all nice and legal. Let whoever gets him keep the money, and his too if they can find it.
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posted on
09/14/2001 7:35:15 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: go star go
To: StealthChild
Bad idea. The US will end up giving $1 Billion dollars to some terrorist from another cell group who wants Bin Laden out of the way for personal reasons. Then we will have a new well financed terrorist organization to take Osama's place, and we will know nothing about him.
Besides, the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
To: StealthChild
This isn't a new idea, but it might be the best one.
Sometime after Vietnam, the cost per kill was figured to be about $50,000., and it was suggested that it would be more efficient to just post a bounty. (Nevermind, though, the current $5 million price on Bin Laden's head -- it's going to go much higher after this week).
To: StealthChild
Hmm, interesting client list. Perhaps Mr. Lozzi can draft Alice Cooper's snake into action? How about sending over David Lee Roth?
To: doug from upland
"A thousand soldiers of fortune each getting 100 grand to go get him. That might work."
Actually, it would be 10,000 mercs getting $100,000 each or 1,000 mercs getting 1,000,000 each. Either way, a lot of money to kill someone that I would kill for free. Actually, I would pay for the honor.
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posted on
09/14/2001 7:41:09 PM PDT
by
Crispy
To: StealthChild
Nobody will wipe out terrorism because too many countries
use terrorists for their own ends, including us. The idea of a global organization, or even the laughable UN, saying they're going to end terrorism reminds me of Bush's declaration of a new federal bureau to investigate federal abuses in local matters. It will be one big hand job that will be all show. Anybody who actually believes that such an "effort" will do what it says is an utter fool who is completely ignoring human nature and human history.
We all know that the fight for gun control is NOT really about protecting citizens or reducing crime, as they say it is, just as the pro-abortion fight is NOT really about rights for women, and the NEA is NOT truly interested in educating children. Why is the concept of international cooperation against terrorism, which is going to cost us a packet, believable in light of what we already know about government?
To: RightWinger
Durn tootin. They have pissed off 91 percent of the American public. There's a world of hurt in store for some Arabs.
And just let them threaten oil supplies. We've been beedin to take the middle east oil supplies away from these freaks for a long time.
To: Lizavetta
Nobody will wipe out terrorism because too many countries use terrorists for their own ends, including us. You my friend are an idiot...
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