Al-Qaida offers rewards for Westerners By MICHELLE BOORSTEIN Associated Press BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Al-Qaida and Taliban supporters in Afghanistan are offering rewards of up to $100,000 for capturing or killing Westerners, U.S. Army officials said today. Pamphlets slipped under people's doors during the night promise $50,000 for any Westerner delivered dead, and double that for people taken alive, said Maj. Iris Hurd, an officer with the Army's Information Operations division. The pamphlets, known in Afghanistan as "night letters," also threaten Afghans with violence if they support the coalition troops or the interim administration of Hamid Karzai, Hurd said. Hurd would not show any of the pamphlets, but said coalition forces had some in hand. She would not elaborate on whether they contained information about how the rewards were to be collected. A set of pamphlets circulating last month among Afghan refugees in Pakistan and in Afghanistan denounced Karzai's interim government as "traitors to Islam" and warned that those who fight alongside the Americans will someday "suffer the consequences." Hurd said last month's pamphlets include allegations that Americans used chemical and biological weapons to kill thousands of people in last year's bombing campaign against the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network. Others include stories of personal sacrifice and so-called "miracles" in the battle against the U.S.-led coalition -- all apparently designed to inspire young Afghan males to take up the fight and to drive home the message that God is on the Taliban side. click for complete article from the Houston Chronicle
Hmmm, US forces should take dead Taliban / Al-Queda members (killed during combat), clean them up, do some plastic surgery to make them look American, and submit them for $50,000 rewards.
