of bribes, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The "Bribe" paid  is the least of the  problems with the publication of the  photograph.

 The captions it was given speak volumes about the real problem - the demonisation and dehumanizing of a man deemed to be the enemy.  It's use to justify a totally illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, Made millions more homeless  -destroying their lives . Destroying a society  just to control its oil. Poisoning,forever, it's very soil with  cancers  caused by weapons of inhuman war - the real weapons of mass destruction. cancer causing weapons that are targeting even the still to be born children of Iraq.

To put it simply, the dehumanising   demonising process was used to justify War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.  That is the real problem . The real Crime, which will never be investigated.

As for the  20,000 pounds demanded  for republicaton rights - that is just profiteering from crime.   Something that corporations do all the time, at the expense of Humanity.  .

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has aggressively defended the publication of pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants by the Sunand the New York Post in 2005, following suggestions that the publisher of the tabloids could face investigation in the US over payments made to obtain them.

The picture was run on the front pages of both newspapers in May 2005, prompting a complaint from President Bush's spokesperson. The Sun's managing editor, Graham Dudman, admitted paying for pictures of the late Iraqi dictator in captivity that were alleged to have come from the US military.

"The Tyrant's In His Pants," said the Sun's headline, while the Post opted for "Butcher of Sagdad" against an image of Hussein wearing nothing more than a pair of white Y-fronts. Murdoch's US tabloid credited the Sun on its front page for images that were thought to date back to between January and April 2004.

The Sun did not dispute paying for the photographs, with Dudman saying in 2005 that the newspaper paid a small sum to secure the pictures, which it said was in excess of £500. Having done so, it acted aggressively to defend its copyright, and reports at the time suggested it was demanding £20,000 for republication.

Payments to public officials are illegal in the US and the UK, and 21 journalists at the Sun have been arrested as part of the sprawling, long-running Operation Elveden investigation into corrupt payments in Britain. The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans US-owned companies from bribing public officials, and the company is under investigation by the FBI

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/19/saddam-hussein-underpants-news-corp