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| Iraq |
| Al-Qaeda offered millions to Saddam's guards to identify witnesses in trial |
| 2006-04-30 |
| The al-Qaeda terrorist group has attempted to bribe Fijian guards at Saddam Hussein's trial into identifying witnesses so they could be killed, a Fiji newspaper has reported. A Fijian guard attached to the US Marshalls told the Fiji Times he and four others had been offered $F3.48 million ($A2.65 million) for information which led to the death of the witnesses. Josevata Tuisavalu said al-Qaeda operatives contacted the Fijian guards to make the bribe attempt, which was rejected. "Our work here involves security for the witnesses against Saddam and also defence lawyers, judge and translators," the paper reports Tuisavalu as saying. "During trial the witnesses faces are covered and their voices are made to echo. "The al-Qaeda offered us $F3.48 million for the death of any of the witnesses but we are not easily tempted." Tuisavalu said the Fijian guards protected close to 50 people involved in the trial of the former Iraqi dictator. "We are the only one allowed up at the court house and have the privilege of (being) face to face with Saddam," he said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Ah, more news of our "unilateral" allies.... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2006-04-30 14:09 |