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Fliers Offering Money for Dead Westerners

Taliban to give twice as much if captured alive

Saturday, April 6, 2002
By Michelle Boorstein
Associated Press Writer

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."

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- AP
Al-Qaeda and Taliban supporters in Afghanistan are offering rewards of up to $100,000 for capturing or killing Westerners, U.S. Army officials said Friday.

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.
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Boy, when they lose, they really get pissed. The fliers is a neat trick. Wonder what we’ll be able to teach them next...

Dan