US puts Bin Laden bounty ad in Urdu daily

[True_Blue]

PESHAWAR: The United States placed a newspaper advertisement yesterday offering rewards of millions of dollars for information leading to the arrest of Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda kingpins.

The half-page ad in the Urdu daily Mashriq, published in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, near the Afghan border, puts a $25m price on the head of the 9/11 mastermind and his deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri.

Featuring black and white mugshots of the wanted men, it also offers $10m for Mullah Omar, the reclusive one-eyed chief of Afghanistan’s ousted Taleban militia.

The ad is the second in a campaign by the US embassy in Pakistan, a key US ally, to promote Washington’s “Rewards for Justice” programme.

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[htuttle]

1. They just did this now?

You mean they hadn't done this in the area bin Laden was suspected to be in for the last 4 years?

If they had, why is this a news article now? If they hadn't, why the heck not?

Oh, I see. This is the SECOND ad. Two in four years. The business I work at placed more ads than that when hiring a new janitor.

[Rockerdem]

2. The people its targeting wont believe them

They will need photos of other "lottery" winners giving testimonials or the like. Otherwise its a waste of time.