Rice Puts $5 Million Bounty on Al-Masri (AP)

[Eugene]

Rice Puts $5 Million Bounty on Al-Masri

The Associated Press
Friday, June 30, 2006; 7:54 PM

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday approved up to
$5 million in exchange for information on Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the new face
of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Al-Masri is presumed to be the successor of terrorist leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, who was killed by an American bomb in early June.

Al-Masri is an Egyptian explosives expert who trained in Osama bin Laden's camps
in Afghanistan and was an associate of al-Zarqawi. Al-Masri has been fighting
in Iraq since at least 2003 and was engaged in the battle of Fallujah in 2004.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001437.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Um....this is tax payer money....where is the oversight...

oh never mind....

[Olney Blue]

4. It's a no-bid contract

[Critters2]

2. I don't suppose that's coming out of her own pocket

Bitch

[Cocoa]

3. get that name out there

new bad guy.

[pooja]

5. Why is Rice approving a bounty????

what is wrong with these people... have we caught bin ladin yet... it seems that he might be the one to try and stop since he keeps appointing new "front" men

[OKNancy]

6. k

[sabra]

7. US offers cash for information on al Qaeda's Masri ($5 million)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30126658.htm

US offers cash for information on al Qaeda's Masri

WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday authorized a reward of up to $5 million to anyone providing information leading to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq.

The Egyptian-born Masri is believed to be the successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq who was killed in a U.S. bombing raid earlier in June. The U.S. bounty for Zarqawi was $25 million.

Masri trained in Afghanistan and formed al Qaeda's first cell in Baghdad, according to the U.S. military. U.S. officials describe him as an explosives expert trained in the construction of improvised bombs.

"We encourage anyone with information on al-Masri's location to contact the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, any U.S. military commander in Iraq, any U.S. embassy or consulate, or the Rewards for Justice staff," said Adam Ereli, a spokesman for the State Department.

[madrchsod]

8. they didn`t pay on the last guy

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. That's Right, Hype Up The Next Guy. Play Right Into Their Hands

Ignore the fact that bin Laden just now literally lionized a former video-store clerk-turned-petty criminal-turned-jihadist that he originally tried to marginalize.

They will never learn.

[leesa]

10. It better damn well be her cash then. Gotta make that Goldstein bigger

than life, eh? What a bunch of shit this Al Qaeda nonsense is! Booga. Booga. Why doesn't she just go back to scaring us with communists and Ruskis.