US puts up Bin Laden ‘wanted’ posters in Afghanistan
KABUL: The United States is erecting billboards in Afghanistan advertising hefty rewards for capturing Osama Bin Laden, Taliban chief Mullah Muhammad Omar and US Al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn, the US embassy said on Saturday.
Ten of the large ‘Rewards for Justice’ boards were being erected countrywide, two of them in Kabul, embassy spokeswoman Corina Sanders said. They show a portrait of Gadahn, flanked by those of Al Qaeda chief Bin Laden and Mullah Omar.
The US government’s Rewards for Justice website offers up to $25 million for information leading to the arrest of Bin Laden, $10 million for Mullah Omar and $1 million for Gadahn.
“We are doing this because we believe there is a lot of untapped information here in Afghanistan,” Sanders said.
“We are using the Rewards for Justice programme to facilitate finding the whereabouts of these people but also the leadership of these kind of organisations,” she said. The US government had also been running ads on radio and television for a few months, she said.
“We are receiving phone calls,” she added. afp
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