Any Bounty Hunters out there?

[RescueRanger]

The U.S. State Department has put a bounty of $5 Million for information on Mehsud, the new posters will be printed in Pakistani newspapers and TV channels as part of the Rewards for Justice Program.

--- Actual News Feed---

Rewards for Justice: Baitullah Mehsud
Gordon Duguid

Acting Deputy Department Spokesman, Office of the Spokesman

Bureau of Public Affairs

Washington, DC

March 25, 2009



The U.S. Department of State has authorized a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the location, arrest, and/or conviction of Baitullah Mehsud, the senior leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban (Taliban Movement of Pakistan).


Mehsud is regarded as a key al-Qa’ida facilitator in the tribal areas of South Waziristan in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities believe that the January 2007 suicide attack against the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was staged by militants loyal to Mehsud. Press reports also have linked Mehsud to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the deaths of other innocent civilians.


In addition, Mehsud has stated his intention to attack the United States. He has conducted cross-border attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and poses a clear threat to American persons and interests in the region.


More information on Mehsud is available on the Rewards for Justice website (Rewards for Justice-mehsud - english).

Rewards for Justice: Baitullah Mehsud

With that much money invloved, any one wanna team up and go Mullah Hunting?

 

[Beskar]

I'll be around Mehsud's area this June. Will try to pose as a journalist trying to make a documentary on his life to get near him. If I get a chance, I'd stab him with a yellow "Piano" ball pen.

 

[S-2]

Went from $50,000 to $5,000,000 in a couple of years.

Nice.

Bounty hunter? I'm hoping one of his boyz drop a dime on him.

 

[jeypore]

The U.S. State Department has put a bounty of $5 Million for information on Mehsud, the new posters will be printed in Pakistani newspapers and TV channels as part of the Rewards for Justice Program.

--- Actual News Feed---

Rewards for Justice: Baitullah Mehsud
Gordon Duguid

Acting Deputy Department Spokesman, Office of the Spokesman

Bureau of Public Affairs

Washington, DC

March 25, 2009



The U.S. Department of State has authorized a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the location, arrest, and/or conviction of Baitullah Mehsud, the senior leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban (Taliban Movement of Pakistan).


Mehsud is regarded as a key al-Qa’ida facilitator in the tribal areas of South Waziristan in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities believe that the January 2007 suicide attack against the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was staged by militants loyal to Mehsud. Press reports also have linked Mehsud to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the deaths of other innocent civilians.


In addition, Mehsud has stated his intention to attack the United States. He has conducted cross-border attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and poses a clear threat to American persons and interests in the region.


More information on Mehsud is available on the Rewards for Justice website (Rewards for Justice-mehsud - english).

Rewards for Justice: Baitullah Mehsud

With that much money invloved, any one wanna team up and go Mullah Hunting?

This is a certantity, that is not going to work, Nobody has collected $20 million for osama yet. How is this going to help?

 

[RescueRanger]

Went from $50,000 to $5,000,000 in a couple of years.

Nice.

Bounty hunter? I'm hoping one of his boyz drop a dime on him.

Amen to that, i hope you have a silver tounge!

 

[Beskar]

What we really need, Is someone like the famous Israeli spy from six day war, "Eli Cohen", who was responsible for hanging out with the top brass of the Jordanian military.

Whatever happened to classic espionage and assassinations? :/

 

[RescueRanger]

This is a certantity, that is not going to work, Nobody has collected $20 million for osama yet. How is this going to help?

Well you see in the case of Mehsud, most of his followers are Challi Wallas (a term pakistanis will know well) and i am sure one of the Mamma's will likely double cross the dog!

Atleast we can all hope, right!

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

and i am sure one of the Mamma's will likely double cross the dog!

Atleast we can all hope, right!

That's probably what the random beheadings of alleged spies by the Taliban is all about - keep the fear factor going ...

Bezerk,

In his rant against the ISI and about 'capturing Islamabad', Mullah Nazeer was complaining about the ISI and how its spies are the real cause of the drone attacks.

I imagine some level of old fashioned espionage still exists for him to take the time out to 'praise' our boys. ..

Given the multiple suicide bombings against the ISI in 2007, I hope they keep a better eye out this time ...

 

[fatman17]

US bounty scheme struggles in Pakistan

By Frank Gardner
BBC security correspondent

The whereabouts of Baitullah Mehsud is unknown
This month the US state department has put up a $5m (£3.4m) bounty for information leading to the capture of one of the most wanted men in Pakistan.

Baitullah Mehsud heads the Pakistani Taleban and is believed to have been behind the murder of the Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto and the Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad last year.

He has openly claimed responsibility for the attack on a police academy in Lahore that killed 8 cadets last month.

But is anyone likely to be tempted by this latest offer in what America calls its "Rewards for Justice" programme?

"Overall the Rewards for Justice programme has been very minimal," says Mike Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer who spent years trying to track down Osama Bin Laden.

"At least in terms of our Islamist enemies [it has had] almost no impact at all, no successes. The only big success was the 1993 World Trade Centre bomber, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.

"And it was worth getting him, it was a good investment. But he's the only one, in almost 20 years."

The Rewards for Justice programme has been going for years.

In Afghanistan it has posters up of wanted men, their pictures printed on matchbooks, and leaflets distributed in local languages.

But both there and in Pakistan's tribal territories, where some of the most wanted jihadists are thought to be hiding, the US is up against a centuries-old tradition called "pashtunwali".

It is the Pashtun code of conduct that makes tribesmen resent any uninvited intruders, while protecting those seeking shelter.

Asif Durrani, the acting Pakistan high commissioner in London, believes this makes it harder for Washington to persuade local people to reveal the whereabouts of those accused of terrorism.

"I can tell you when it comes to honour, kicking the door itself is the biggest insult, so that also invites a sort of revenge," he says.

"No one can dare kick my door," continues Mr Durrani, "it's not allowed, because you are then declaring war against my household."

Fear vs temptation

But US government bounties have had their successes elsewhere, notably in Iraq.

Anyone caught betraying a fellow Muslim risks finding their family dishonoured for generations.

The former President, Saddam Hussein, was betrayed for money in 2003 and so were his two sons, Uday and Qusai.

No longer able to rule through fear and patronage, Saddam was just too tempting a prize for those who knew where he was hiding.

So why has the rewards system worked in Iraq and not in Pakistan?

Terry Pattar, a counter-terrorism expert at Jane's Strategic Advisory Services, thinks the key difference is that in Iraq it was clear that eventually the U.S. would win whereas that is not the case in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"I think these kinds of rewards perhaps draw out the people who are more likely to give information where it's clear they'll be giving it to the side that is going to eventually win," he says.


The most wanted militants are thought to be in Pakistan's tribal territories
"There's less fear of reprisals. They've got more chance of claiming the money and safely using it."

And that is just the problem.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan's Tribal Territories, where the Talwban and al-Qaeda are resurgent, the US does benefit from a loose network of informants.

But anyone caught betraying a fellow Muslim risks finding their family dishonoured for generations.

Mike Scheuer believes this explains why after all these years Osama Bin Laden is still a free man.

"It's very unlikely that any Muslim is going to turn him in to the Americans for money," says the former CIA officer, making reference to al-Qaeda's attacks on the US in 2001.

"He's been in Afghanistan since 9/11. It's the third poorest place on the planet. We have $200m of reward money outstanding, including $50m for Osama and no one has come forward to take a cent.

"I think we need in the West to grow up a little bit, everything doesn't pivot on money."

"In the Islamic world, at least when it comes to Osama Bin Laden, it pivots off of religion," Mike Scheuer says.

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[A.Rahman]

The real criminals are in white house responsible for the death of 1.2 million Iraqis, would put 1000's of Mehsud to shame.

total Iraqi violent death toll due to the Iraq War since the US-led invasion is in excess of 1.2 million (1,220,580)

 

[pakomar]

I'll be around Mehsud's area this June. Will try to pose as a journalist trying to make a documentary on his life to get near him. If I get a chance, I'd stab him with a yellow "Piano" ball pen.

Are you serious man?

 

[pakomar]

Who wants 50,000$ of reward and need 100,000$ security expenses?

 

[XYON]

BM's head on a platter and balls in a spoon would do it for me!

US$5mil is quite a sum for even ex-special covert ops chaps to take this swine down!

 

[Awesome]

It's best we don't discuss the specifics of strategies of getting Mehsud here. You don't want to help the terrorists, in any remotely possible way.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

I'll be around Mehsud's area this June. Will try to pose as a journalist trying to make a documentary on his life to get near him. If I get a chance, I'd stab him with a yellow "Piano" ball pen.

which agency are you originally from? Come by Kurram brother!!

lets smoke a J



(jk)