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To: maceng2 who wrote (31423)	4/13/2003 8:05:24 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 74559

Who wants to be a millionaire? dcthomson.co.uk Allied military chiefs are to offer large rewards for information that leads to the capture of Saddam Hussein and his henchmen. Officials refused to disclose the price on Saddam’s head but any informer would be able to claim a huge sum, feasibly millions of dollars. The news came amid reports that a key member of Saddam’s government had already given himself up. Lt Gen Amir al-Saadi, a special adviser who oversaw Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programmes, was said to have turned himself in peacefully to US forces in Baghdad. Speaking about the price on Saddam’s head, US Brigadier General Vince Brooks said, “A rewards programme has been established for information leading to the capture of regime leaders.” As the hunt for weapons of mass destruction remains fruitless, the coalition is also offering financial rewards to any Iraqi leading them to the “smoking gun”. General Brooks, speaking at Central Command in Qatar, again refused to say how much was being offered, but added, “We think it’s appropriate prices.” Black market The offer of money also applies to conventional weapons caches and is partly designed to stop dangerous materials and equipment being sold on the black market. General Brooks admitted there was still a “tremendous amount of work” to be done on weapons of mass destruction, which would last well after the conflict. So far there have been a number of “false positive” tests for banned substances, including sarin, but none has been found. General Brooks also said that allied forces had captured what appeared to be a 59-strong group of contract killers trying to leave Iraq. The men were all on a bus, which was stopped at a checkpoint, heading west towards the border. They were carrying 630,000 dollars (£420,000) in 100 dollar bills and documents that offered rewards for killing allied soldiers. Meanwhile, a German TV station said Lt Gen al Saadi had asked it to send a television crew to witness his surrender for his own safety. ZDF said al Saadi, who has a German wife, told its correspondent in an interview that he had no information on the fate of Saddam Hussein. Guilt He said he was a member of neither Saddam’s Ba’ath party nor the Iraqi secret services and felt no guilt. And he insisted Iraq had no chemical or biological weapons and that there had been no grounds for an attack on his country. At the same time, at Al Qaim on the Syrian border, where there has been fierce fighting, US forces raided a phosphate plant where they found two fixedwing unmanned drones, which could potentially be used to deliver chemical weapons. In Baghdad five mobile missile launchers and an Al Samoud missile were found. General Brooks also said ground forces had now been to the site of Monday’s “decapitation” missile strike against Saddam in a restaurant in Baghdad. “We are not searching rock by rock through the rubble,” he said.