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Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists

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I wonder if this will lead to more killing of just an innocent person.

I want more money and need money for my family, so I will kill you and pretend your a jihadist...

Or I have my eyes on my neighbor's land...

History is written by the "victors." :(

Do you make a sad face for evolution too? DNA is also written by the victors...

Naw, evolution gets an Abraham Lincoln ==):-)=

In all honesty why would you expect the narrative written by man to be any different than the narrative written by nature?

The government therefore offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising persons began to breed cobras for the income.

Though framing innocent people isn't quite the same as raising them to become "jihadists" and then turning them in.

My first thought was Cobra.

I don't think it'll work that way.

Iraqi gov't publishes list of Al Qaeda members beforehand, the bounty hunters work from that list.

So, who controls the list?

I control the list.

"Who Controls the Controllers?"

The list does.

Iraqi official: "This is a jihadist?".

Bounty hunter: "Yes, I swear. So are his wife and kids. I have them all in my care. Where do I unload them? Where can I collect the money?".

Presumably the Iraqi gov't will punish the ID's of legitimate targets beforehand.

This needn't be real problematic.

They will publish a list of people the Iraqi government says are Jihadists.

Last I checked the Iraqi government wasn't scoring well on government corruption metrics.

This is how Guantanamo was filled up with irrelevant people someone bore a grudge against. We paid a bounty for many of them, perhaps all of them.

No, I do not believe that it is.

The US didn't have a list already made up. They allowed people to convince them that so-and-so was a terrorist. Or so I've been told.

Which is exactly the opposite of what I suspect the Iraqi gov't intends to do.

And after all are killed, you have rich well-equipped militants, who are your next problem …

The human race will never get this.

You don't think Al Qaeda are rich well equipped militants?

So establishing another group is not a problem?

Well that depends, doesn't it?

Is every armed militia by definition bad? I would say no. But you could disagree.

I would say in most cases. Even if the group itself is stable, economics of scale kick in and you have cheap weapons everywhere.

A group of armed forces may be a nicer trade partner, buy some weapons and may protect your borders for you (North Africa), but at which price?

At the end people do not tend to like them and someone has to clean up the mess. My government currently argues, that we should join the French in doing so, as we are not Switzerland and the world clearly needs more German intervention.

Government is blaming Al Qaeda for unwanted violence. Clearly the solution is to announce public incentive to go out and cause violence. That will solve everything.

It's not murder if the government pays for it.

That Iraq II invasion is retrospectively looking like a better investment every day!

Do they get money for killing themselves?

So, can we cash in on that retroactively?

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