U.S. Offers Big $$ For Afghan Dirty Dozen

New Emphasis On "Most Wanted" Posters, Billboards Seeking 12 Taliban, Al Qaeda Commanders

(CBS/AP)  The U.S. military has launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of 12 Taliban and al Qaeda leaders.

Posters and billboards are being put up around eastern Afghanistan with the names and pictures of the 12, with reward amounts ranging from $20,000 to $200,000.

"We're trying to get more visibility on these guys like the FBI did with the mob," said Lt. Col. Rob Pollock, a U.S. officer at the main American base in Bagram. "They operate the same way the mob did, they stay in hiding."

The new most-wanted list does not include internationally known names who already have large price tags on their heads like al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden - who has evaded U.S. capture since 2001 despite a $25 million bounty - or Taliban leader Mullah Omar with a $10 million reward.

Instead the list is filled with local insurgent cell leaders responsible for roadside and suicide bomb attacks.

"We want the people in that area to know who this guy is and know he's a bad guy, and when they spot him to turn that guy in," said Maj. Chris Belcher, a U.S. spokesman.

Meanwhile, Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops using air strikes killed more than 20 suspected militants in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the coalition said, days after President Hamid Karzai renewed his offer to hold peace talks with the Taliban.

The joint forces, acting on intelligence reports, were pursuing militants hiding out in the Reg district of volatile Helmand province when they came under attack, the coalition said in a statement. The troops called in air strikes and fought the militants in a gun battle.

The Most Wanted program, in the works for weeks, comes despite peace overtures from President Karzai, who on Sunday said he would be willing to meet with Omar if it would help bring peace.

The posters and billboards will be put up by Afghan soldiers and police in areas where the military suspects the men are operating, said Belcher. Some on the list are also suspected to operate in Pakistan's tribal regions, where the U.S. military does not have the authority to operate.

The U.S. says it has killed around 50 mostly mid-level insurgent leaders over the past year, a strategy the military is continuing to push with the Most Wanted rewards program.

The highest-ranking leader killed this year was Mullah Dadullah Lang, a one-legged militant who orchestrated a rash of Taliban suicide attacks and beheadings. He died of gunshot wounds in a U.S.-led coalition operation in Helmand in May.

"You disrupt the network when you take out the leadership. It has an effect," said Belcher. "Those mid and high-level leaders are coordinating the action across Afghanistan. By taking them out there's at least a temporary disruption in the ability of the subordinates to continue coordinated operations."

Among the 12 men on the Most Wanted list, the U.S. is offering the $200,000 reward for five of them, including:

- Abu Laith al-Libi: An al Qaeda training camp leader who has appeared in many Internet videos and who the U.S. says was likely behind the February bombing at the U.S. base at Bagram during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney.

- Saraj Haqqani: Son of longtime warlord Jalalludin Haqqani and believed to have connections with al Qaeda.

- Tahir Yuldash: The leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and an al Qaeda operational commander.

Pollock said the U.S. is offering up to $10,000 to Afghans who turn in any foreign fighter, such as militants from Arab countries or Chechnya, Turkey, or Uzbekistan. The U.S. has also been paying money to Afghans who tell authorities about roadside bombs that have been planted.

"This is not necessarily a new program, we're just putting a lot more energy into it now," Pollock said.

Acting on intelligence reports, joint U.S. and coalition forces were pursuing militants hiding out in the Reg district of volatile Helmand province when they came under attack, leading to the overnight air strikes and ensuing gun battles, the coalition said in a statement.

The coalition said more than 20 militants were killed but there were no reports of civilians hurt. It was not immediately possible to verify the death toll independently.

Insurgency-related violence has killed more than 4,600 people so far this year, most of them insurgents, according to an AP tally of figures from Afghan and Western officials.

Last week alone, more than 270 died in violence, including 165 militants killed in two large battles in the south and 30 people killed in a suicide bombing on an army bus in Kabul.

Within hours after Saturday's suicide attack, Karzai said he would be willing to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and give militants a position in the government in exchange for peace.

On Sunday, Karzai's spokesman, Humayun Hamidzada, said there is "serious debate" among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms.

However, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi repeated a position he had announced earlier this month, saying there would be no negotiations until U.S. and NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan.

[lars008-2009]

Posted by hungry1968 at 03:43 PM : Oct 01, 2007

ARE PRESIDENTS ABOVE THE LAW???

wow, the president says he has the right to perjury????

President to Senate: Perjury is my right...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199901/ai_n8836610

WHAT DO CLINTOON AND SANDY BURGLAR HAVE IN COMMOM HAHAHA

Former Clinton Aide Sandy Berger Forfeiting Law License
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewFlash.asp?Page=/ThisHour/Archive/NTH20070517e.html

there are three EQUAL but separate branches of government,,, oversight does not mean the legislative branch is the king of america,,,

[hungry1968]

Posted by lars008 at 03:29 PM : Oct 01, 2007


"i am not calling all muslims fascist nazi terrorislamist,,, i am calling the ones that are fascist nazi terrorislamist that,,,"

How do you know the difference between one or the other? How are our troops supposed to be able to distinguish between them on the streets of Iraq?


"i guess you forgot all the years that the demonic-rats controlled both houses, the presidency and the supreme court,,,"

How many times did members of the Clinton administration claim "executive privilege"? Right now, everyone from Bush down to the kid that cuts the White House lawn has it, and they NEVER have to testify before Congress.


"so why do you have a problem when the gop does,,, it does not violate the constitution what so ever,,,
nor should it,,,"

Denying Congress their Constitutional instilled powers of their oversight responsibility, doesn''t violate the Constitution? Can you explain how?

[lars008-2009]

Posted by hungry1968 at 03:01 PM : Oct 01, 2007

i am not calling all muslims fascist nazi terrorislamist,,, i am calling the ones that are fascist nazi terrorislamist that,,,

i guess you forgot all the years that the demonic-rats controlled both houses, the presidency and the supreme court,,,

so why do you have a problem when the gop does,,, it does not violate the constitution what so ever,,,

nor should it,,,

[lars008-2009]

Posted by hungry1968 at 03:01 PM : Oct 01, 2007

fascist nazi terrorislam taught the germans how to be nazis,,,

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I would call it a duck.

It is convenient for liberals and fascist nazi Islamic muslims to forget that the "Grand Mufti of Jerusalem" went to Germany as a guest of Hitler during WWII...and begged Hitler to find the "final solution" to the jewish problem. This same Grand mufti used his influence to raise Two Muslim SS Divisions in Yugoslavia (Kosovo) and Albaina. These divisions were responsible for the murder of almost 1 Million jews, Serbs and Gypsies.

This same Grand Mufti was the maternal uncle of Yassir Arafat! The Mufti''s war continues today worldwide.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/nazi_arab.htm
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id4/mufti.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=grand+mufti of jerusalem

[j-whitman]

Lars008,,,,, If you haven''''t noticed,,,,, We have been fighting battles for equal rights & battles to protect our own rights right here in the USA for decades, it''s even more promenent now.

[hungry1968]

"This is part one of the much-anticipated UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches..."
Posted by lars008 at 02:44 PM : Oct 01, 2007


UK Channel 4 is the BBC. Shouldn''t the link to the website / webpage be something like www.bbc.uk instead of the highly respected and world renowned http://littlegreenfootballs.com?

[hungry1968]

"...fascist nazi terrorislamic muslims..."
Posted by lars008 at 02:28 PM : Oct 01, 2007


This makes no sense whatsoever.

The nazi''s were all Christians, and believed that all people that weren''t white, blond haired, and blue eyed Christians need to be exterminated. They hated Jews, blacks, and everyone else that didn''t fit their description of the "master race", including Muslims. Linking the two of them together in a sentence is like saying, "democrat republican fascists" - it''s just too stupid to compare. I guess that''s why you do it.

Linking the words terrorislam is just stupid too. Not everyone that is Islamic is a terrorist, anymore than evryone from Germany is a nazi, or everyone from Russia is a communist. It''s just plain stupid. I guess that''s why you do it.

And you keep calling everyone a fascist that doesn''t agree with you point of view, even though Bush and Cheney have basically taken over the federal government, up to and including denying Congress their oversight abilities, stacking the courts full of Christian Conservatives instead of fair and impartial jurists, and giving no bid contracts to their politically connected friends - just like Hitler did. Calling anyone other than Bush and Cheney is just plain stupid. I guess that''s why you do it.

[lars008-2009]

j-whitman

NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE

WHY IS IT NOT ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS?

Being non-Muslim in Islamic nations means ''protection''--and problems.(World: Iraq)
The official term for this right is "dhimmitude." The world''s foremost expert on the subject, Bat Ye''Or, coined the word in 1983 to describe the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians (dhimmis) subjected to Islamic rule. Broadly interpreted, it appears benign: Non-Muslims enjoy a protected status among their Muslims neighbors: But dhimmitude becomes problematic because its supposed safeguards and protections can be withdrawn as selectively as they are applied by rulers or governments of Islamic states.

In Iraq, as in other predominately Muslim states, Christianity has existed side by side with Islam for centuries. For some observers (as well as those who experience it firsthand), the status of Christians is not one of cheery coexistence. Rather, it may be more like the old racial divides in the United States, where blacks lived near, but not integrated into, white society, and where they "kept their place"--separate and unequal.

In a July 24 interview with NCR, Baghdad Archbishop Jean Sleiman, leader of Iraq''s Latin Catholic church, said that in Iraq, "Christians and Muslims can I-live] side by side--but only side by side. Side by side, but not equally. No mixing, no integration."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-121763784.html

[j-whitman]

Lars008,,,,,, Your blind ignorance is a choice, not a virtue ------ Do a bit of reading from something other than Revelations.

THE JEWS OF IRAQ -- by Naeim Giladi
http://www.inminds.com/jews-of-iraq.html

[lars008-2009]

Posted by j-whitman at 02:32 PM : Oct 01, 2007

it is your ignorance of fascist nazi terrorislam that will get non muslim civilians killed,,,

Suicide Killers
http://www.pierrerehov.com/
''Obsession''
Documentary gives insight into radical Islam%u2019s global threat
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/launchPage.html?110506/110506_fnl_obsession&%27Obsession%27&FNL&Documentary%20gives%20insight%20into%20radical%20Islam%92s%20global%20threat&Foxlife&-1&%27Obsession%27&Video%20Launch%20Page&News
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/12min.htm
http://myspace.com/waragainstthewest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BL4-mxE87w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUpcpEQtgp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUqXSeCDJc
UK TV AIRS SHOCK ''UNDERCOVER'' LOOK INTO MAINSTREAM BRIT MOSQUES...
Dispatches: Undercover Mosque
This is part one of the much-anticipated UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, exposing evidence of Islamic supremacism, shocking misogyny, and support for violence at a number of Britain%u2019s leading mosques and Muslim institutions. (Thanks again to LGF operative kasper.)
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24018_Dispatches-_Undercover_Mosque&only
Al Qaeda Briton ''plotted to kill thousands''
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=414824&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5

[hungry1968]

Posted by lars008 at 01:58 PM : Oct 01, 2007


Now you''re quoting Bill Maher? Isn''t that the person that you described him and Olberman as being loonie, leftie, liberals? Now you''re quoting him?

That''s just as bad as you crying about how "60 Minutes" has a anti-Bush agenda, then you post links to their transcripts to prove your point.

I''d call you a hypocrite, but I sincerely believe that you''re too stupid to know how to be one. Especially using words like terror-slam, and saying that Jefferson criticized someone for owning slaves while he had a plantation full of them. You''re just too dumb.

[j-whitman]

Lars008,,,, Your Islamofobia & radical religious ignronce is what I hate,,,,, It feeds Terrorism & excellerates the problems

[hungry1968]

I''ve got an idea - maybe we should put 180,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan looking for this "Dirty Dozen, instead of 20,000 in Afghanistan and 160,000+ in Iraq.

[lars008-2009]

don%u201Dt you just hate these stupid silly little fascist nazi terrorislamic muslims pretending to be liberal Americana,,, and begging for the usa to leave iraq,,, lol,,, they must be really getting their arses kicked,,, hahahahahaha,,,

and these fascist nazi terrorislamic muslim collaborators,,,

Last letter from doomed Al Qaida chief: "We are so desperate for your help"
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_iraq_09_30.asp

[j-whitman]

Lars008,,, You have no idea of what indigenous Jews in the Middle East are --
-- 70 years of European Jewish Zionism & early British colonialism through the use of USA embassys waged psycologal warfare, biological warfare & bombings on indigenous Jews in the Middle East.

http://www.inminds.com/jews-of-iraq.html

[j-whitman]

I write this article
for the same reason I wrote my book:
to tell the American people,
and especially American Jews,
that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate
willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave,
Jews killed Jews; and that,
to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands,
Jews on numerous occasions
rejected genuine peace initiatives
from their Arab neighbors.
I write about what the first prime minister of Israel called "cruel Zionism."
I write about it because I was part of it.
--- Naeim Giladi,, an Iraqi Jew, now an Amreican citizen

[lars008-2009]

Posted by j-whitman at 01:59 PM : Oct 01, 2007

Would you believe FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM is plotting & killing indigenous Jews & indigenous non muslims in Iran, Iraq, Palestine & around the world????

[j-whitman]

Lars008 --- Would you believe European Jews killing indigeous Jews & civilians ????

Israeli daily, Hadashot, in an article published August 13, 1993. The writer, Sarah Laybobis-Dar, interviewed a number of Israelis who had knowledge of the use of bacteriological weapons in the 1948 war. Mileshtin said bacteria was used to poison the wells of every village emptied of its Arab inhabitants.

[lars008-2009]

Posted by j-whitman at 01:26 PM : Oct 01, 2007

FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM EMPTIES BETHLEHEM OF CHRISTIANS
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printab
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36406

''Greedy monsters'' ruled church

SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BETHLEHEM, West Bank %u2014 The Palestinian gunmen holed up in the Church of the Nativity and later deported by Israel seized church stockpiles of food and "ate like greedy monsters" until the food ran out, while more than 150 civilians went hungry.
They also guzzled beer, wine and Johnnie Walker scotch that they found in priests'' quarters, undeterred by the Islamic ban on drinking alcohol.
Angry Orthodox priests yesterday showed two reporters about 20 empty bottles of whiskey, champagne, vodka, cognac and French wine on a kitchen shelf and on the floor of two rooms.
"They should be ashamed of themselves. They acted like animals, like greedy monsters. Come, I will show you more," said one priest, who declined to give his name.
"Palestinians took candelabra, icons and anything that looked like gold," said a Franciscan, the Rev. Nicholas Marquez from Mexico.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20020515-89391238.htm

[j-whitman]

Lars008,,, Would you believe Colonial England & European Jews polting & killing indigenous Jews & indigenous Arabs in Iran, Iraq & Palestine ????