Terrorism
10/26/2007 | Iran, Terrorism
U.S. sanctions 'doomed,' says Iran
CNN.com
(CNN) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry has said that tougher U.S. sanctions are "doomed to fail" and accused Washington of adopting confrontational policies amid simmering tensions over Tehran's refusal to halt its nuclear program. Washington imposed stiff sanctions against elements of Iran's military and a number of Iranian banks and companies on Thursday, accusing them of support for nuclear proliferation and terror-related activities. "The Iranian regime's abilities to pursue nuclear and ballistic missile programs in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions depends on its access to international, commercial, and financial systems," said U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini, quoted by Iran's state news agency IRNA, said the sanctions were "ineffective." Meanwhile, speaking Thursday in Kuwait, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi warned that any military attack on Iran would be met with a "crushing response."
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/25/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
An Iraqi Parade Against al-Qaeda
Time
Osama bin Laden's latest call for Iraqi insurgents to unite against Americans fell on deaf ears this week in Ramadi, the city that al-Qaeda leaders once declared the seat of a new Islamic caliphate and capital of the Iraqi insurgency. Rather than rise up against them, the people of Ramadi Tuesday invited U.S. forces to watch a massive parade — albeit one so tightly secured that no pedestrian traffic got close to it. The almost surreal, two-hour martial procession was led by the city's children to commemorate the martyred leader of a tribal revolt that has virtually silenced al-Qaeda in Anbar Province. It gave the Baghdad government a photo-op to make points about national unity, and so the Shi'a dominated government sent a representative to Sunni Ramadi. "With unity, victory is possible," said Iraqi Defense Adviser Mowaffak al Rubaei, clearly referring to bin Laden's attempt to drum up support for a renewed anti-American uprising.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/25/2007 | Iran, Terrorism
Bush Administration Announces New Sanctions Against Iran
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced Thursday that it is imposing sweeping new sanctions against Iran's defense ministry, its Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of banks. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, joined at a State Department news conference by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said the steps the Bush administratioin is taking are designed to punish the Iranians for their support for terrorist organizations in Iraq and the Middle East, missile sales and nuclear activities. Rice called the moves — the harshest of this kind since the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 — were in response to "a comprehensive policy to confront the threatening behavior of the Iranians." But she also said that Washington remains open to "a diplomatic solution." The announcement culminated a monthslong series of harsh statements from both sides amid public recriminations both within the administration and the Congress over Tehran's strategic intentions.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/24/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam
FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot
USA Today
PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it. The contents of the June 25 memo from the FBI's Denver office were reported Friday by The Arizona Republic. Davis declined to share a copy of the memo and an FBI spokeswoman in Denver didn't immediately return a telephone call. The Republic reported that the detainee, who was not identified, said the plan involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed devices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in forests and grasslands after the operatives had left the country. The memo noted that investigators couldn't determine whether the detainee was telling the truth. The newspaper said many forest law enforcement officers it contacted had no idea the warning had been issued.
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Worried Bin Laden Urges Iraq Insurgents to 'Unite'
ABC News
Showing apparent signs of concern over events in Iraq, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged insurgents to "unite your lines into one" in an audiotape played on al Jazeera Monday. "Don't be arrogant," bin Laden warned. "Your enemies are trying to break up the jihadi groups. I urge you all to work in one united group." People familiar with bin Laden's voice say the tape appeared to be authentic, although there was no reference to any event that would indicate when it was recorded. Bin Laden's message comes at a time when U.S. strategy to split Iraqi insurgent groups from al Qaeda units appears to be working.
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What form of mass murder is Al-Qaeda preparing for?
Daily Star
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is paid to think about the unthinkable. As the US Energy Department's director of intelligence, he's responsible for gathering information about the threat that a terrorist group will attack the United States with a nuclear weapon. With his shock of white hair and piercing eyes, Mowatt-Larssen looks like a man who has seen a ghost. And when you listen to a version of the briefing he has been giving recently to President George W. Bush and other top officials, you begin to understand why. He is convinced that Al-Qaeda is trying to acquire a nuclear bomb that will leave the ultimate terrorist signature - a mushroom cloud. We've all had enough fear-mongering to last a lifetime. Indeed, we have become so frightened of terrorism since September 11, 2001, that we have begun doing the terrorists' job for them by undermining the legal framework of our democracy. And truly, I wish I could dismiss Mowatt-Larssen's analysis as the work of an overwrought former CIA officer with too many years in the trenches. But it's worth listening to his warnings - not because they induce more numbing paralysis, but because they might stir sensible people to take actions that could detect and stop an attack. That's why his boss, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, is encouraging him to speak out. They don't want to anguish later that they didn't sound the alarm in time.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/17/2007 | Terrorism
Who’s Afraid of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week?
FrontPageMagazine
Why is an idea so frightening to some members of the Columbia community that they need to organize a campaign to suppress it before it is even aired? Why have some Columbians taken it upon themselves to conduct a hate campaign against students who want to discuss issues that affect us all? Why, on the other hand, were many of these same groups determined to welcome to Columbia a dictator who is providing weapons to kill American men and women in Iraq, who has called for the extermination of the Jewish state, and who presides over a regime that has murdered 4,000 gays and hung women from cranes for alleged sexual improprieties? If the welcome mat was okay for Ahmadinejad, why do these people want to deny a platform to Columbia students who are concerned about the threat of Islamo-Fascism? Is Islamo-Fascism a threat? In fact, this is exactly the kind of question that will be discussed during the week of Oct. 22-26 at Columbia, unless campus leftists obstruct it the way they did Jim Gilchrist’s attempt to discuss the border issue last year. The fascist threat is real, and not just in Iraq or Iran.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq terror group is on the wane, say experts
DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda in Iraq, once the war's most bloodthirsty and lethal insurgent group, is badly damaged and being forced to fend off both the U.S. and former Sunni allies, intelligence experts said Monday. But military and counterterror officials say it's premature to declare victory over the group that pledged loyalty to Osama Bin Laden long after its murder spree began in the summer of 2003. "Al Qaeda in Iraq has been dealt harsh blows in the past and bounced back," a defense intelligence official warned. "Don't count them out." When Al Qaeda in Iraq's Jordanian leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was slain in 2006, many wrongly thought it would cripple the group, several U.S. officials noted. "New cream rises quickly to the top," the defense intelligence official said. Evan Kohlmann, a government consultant who painstakingly tracks Iraq's diverse insurgency, said the Al Qaeda franchise there - now led by an Egyptian - has indeed "reached a crisis point." "To say their backs are broken is not right. They do have their backs against the wall," Kohlmann said. "Clearly there are some positive trends," agreed a U.S. counterterrorism official.
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Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled
Washington Post
The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq. But as the White House and its military commanders plan the next phase of the war, other officials have cautioned against taking what they see as a premature step that could create strategic and political difficulties for the United States. Such a declaration could fuel criticism that the Iraq conflict has become a civil war in which U.S. combat forces should not be involved. At the same time, the intelligence community, and some in the military itself, worry about underestimating an enemy that has shown great resilience in the past. "I think it would be premature at this point," a senior intelligence official said of a victory declaration over AQI, as the group is known. Despite recent U.S. gains, he said, AQI retains "the ability for surprise and for catastrophic attacks." Earlier periods of optimism, such as immediately following the June 2006 death of AQI founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. air raid, not only proved unfounded but were followed by expanded operations by the militant organization.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/15/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
Al Qaeda Dealt Devastating Blow in Iraq
FoxNews.com
The U.S. military says it has dealt devastating and potentially irreversible blows to Al Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq, the Washington Post reported Monday. But as the White House and its military commanders plan the next phase of the war, other officials have cautioned against taking what they see as a premature step that could create strategic and political difficulties for the United States, the newspaper said. Such a declaration could fuel criticism that the Iraq conflict has become a civil war in which U.S. combat forces should not be involved. Simultaneously, the intelligence community, and some military members, worry about underestimating an enemy that has shown surprising resilience in the past. "I think it would be premature at this point," a senior intelligence official said to the Washington Post of a victory declaration over AQI, as the group is known. Despite recent U.S. gains, he said, AQI retains "the ability for surprise and for catastrophic attacks." Earlier periods of optimism, such as immediately following the June 2006 death of AQI founder Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi in a U.S. air raid, not only proved unfounded but were followed by expanded operations by the militant organization, the Post reported.
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Al-Qaeda: Still Number One Threat to U.S.
CBN
CBNNews.com - A new White House report says that al-Qaeda poses the number one terrorist threat to the American homeland. The report comes as Congress is considering expanding the government's powers to spy on suspected terrorist at home. The United States has not been the target of a terrorist attack since September 11, 2001. However, the report reveals al-Qaeda is still trying for another major attack on American soil. The White House says the group is stepping up its efforts to place agents within the United States -- and calls it the "most serious and dangerous" terrorism threat. The report comes on the heels of a recent warning by U.S. intelligence agencies that attacks by al-Qaeda against European cities may be imminent. A common problem facing both the U.S. and Europe is al-Qaeda's establishment of a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal areas. It is in that lawless region, the White House says, that al-Qaeda is able to plan and train freely for attacks against the West.
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Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip
New York Sun
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda's Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden's September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy's system. The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden's first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech. But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda's internal security division that the organization's Internet communications system, known among American intelligence analysts as Obelisk, was compromised. This network of Web sites serves not only as the distribution system for the videos produced by Al Qaeda's production company, As-Sahab, but also as the equivalent of a corporate intranet, dealing with such mundane matters as expense reporting and clerical memos to mid- and lower-level Qaeda operatives throughout the world.
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It's official: Terrorists endorse Hillary in '08
WorldNetDaily - On the record, Mideast jihadi leaders say she's best hope for their victory in Iraq
WASHINGTON – With presidential primaries approaching and the race for the White House heating up, Muslim terrorist leaders in the Middle East have offered their endorsement for America's highest office, stating in a new book they hope Sen. Hillary Clinton is victorious in 2008. "I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq," stated Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group.
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Democrats to Unveil Wiretap Bill, Would Force Justice Dept. to Reveal Surveillance
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department would have to reveal to Congress the details of all electronic surveillance conducted without court orders since Sept. 11, 2001, including the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program, if a new Democratic wiretapping bill is approved. The draft bill, scheduled to be introduced to Congress Tuesday, would also require the Justice Department to maintain a database of all Americans subjected to government eavesdropping without a court order, including whether their names have been revealed to other government agencies. The Bush administration has refused to share that information with Congress so far. The Terrorist Surveillance Program was a secret eavesdropping program undertaken after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks without the approval of an intelligence court created 30 years ago to monitor such programs. The Democratic legislation is certain to draw sharp objections and possibly a veto threat because it lacks at least one feature the White House demands: it does not grant retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with government surveillance between 2001 and 2007 without the court orders. Around 40 lawsuits name telecommunications companies for alleged violations of wiretapping laws, according to administration officials.
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Iran envoy is denounced for ‘terrorist’ links
Times Online
The US military commander in Iraq has claimed Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad is part of al-Quds force, an elite wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards which Washington wants to designate as "terrorist". General David Petraeus implicated the Tehran government in the assassination of provincial Iraqi governors while adding that Hassan Kabuki-Qomi, Iran's envoy to Baghdad, "is an Quads force member". Speaking over the weekend at a base near the Iranian border, he said Revolutionary Guards had been "responsible for providing the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have killed US soldiers". Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador in Baghdad, has this year met Mr Kazemi-Qomi twice to discuss ways to stabilise Iraq. But the talks made little headway and President Bush has since said he is ready to "confront Tehran's murderous activities".
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U.S. pulls plug on 6 al-Qaeda media outlets
USA Today
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it has captured at least six al-Qaeda media centers in Iraq and arrested 20 suspected propaganda leaders since June. The seizures of the centers underscore the importance al-Qaeda has placed on media, primarily the Internet, as a tool to communicate to its members and use against U.S. forces in Iraq. The group's media emphasis continues to increase, intelligence analysts say. Al-Qaeda is keenly aware that the battle is ultimately for the "hearts and minds of the ummah," the community of Muslim believers, says Gordon Woo, catastrophe analyst for RMS, a London-based firm that consults private companies on terrorism risks. Woo notes that Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, said in 2005 that most "of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media." The progress against al-Qaeda's media operations stems from new offensives aimed at al-Qaeda sanctuaries and an emphasis on blunting the terrorist group's extensive propaganda operations, U.S. officers say. "One of our goals is to target these propaganda networks, and we've had more success over the past three months," says Air Force Col. Donald Bacon, a staff officer at Multi-National Force-Iraq.
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Abbas agrees to talks with Hamas
JTA
Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to talk to Hamas. Israel Radio reported Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority president and his Fatah Party will meet with Hamas for secret talks in Cairo mediated by Egypt. Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June. In a Washington Post interview last week, Abbas said he would not join again in a government with Hamas, and that he had adopted the U.S. stance on the terrorist group. The United States demands that Hamas renounce violence, recognize Israel and adhere to existing Palestinian Authority agreements as a precondition for talks with the terrorist organization.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/3/2007 | Terrorism
Largest terror exercise set to start
USA Today
WASHINGTON — The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever next week when three fictional "dirty bombs" go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. Yet even as this drill begins, details from the previous national exercise held in 2005 have yet to be publicly released — information that's supposed to help officials prepare for the next real attack. House lawmakers were expected to demand answers Wednesday, including why the "after-action" report from 2005 hasn't been made public. Congress has required the exercise since 2000, but has done little in the way of oversight beyond attending the actual events. Next week will be the fourth Top Officials exercise — dubbed TOPOFF. The program costs about $25 million a year and involves the federal government's highest officials, such as top people from the Defense and Homeland Security departments. "The challenge with TOPOFF is not the exercise itself. It's to move as quickly as possible to remedy what perceives to be the problems that are uncovered," former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said in an interview with AP this week.
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Terror in a small town
The Globe Gazette
OSAGE — According to terrorism expert John Metzger, even citizens living in Iowa’s small towns may be living with a false sense of security about being a terrorist target. And, Metzger said, fighting the threat of terrorism is the job of everyone. He was in Osage as part of a training exercise for law and emergency personnel. Much of Metzger’s presentation concerned the terrorist threat posed by radical Islamic forces although domestic terrorists such as those involved with the Columbine High School shootings may also be included in the mix. “Terrorists operate with a whole different mind-set than most Americans,” said Metzger. “We have to understand that as we deal with them.” Metzger then described the many different areas and types of strategies the U. S. needed to be prepared for in order to counteract the terrorists. “Knowledge is our best weapon,” he said. “We all must work together in dealing with terrorism. We can’t leave it to only law enforcement officials.” He said the threat remains in the smallest of communities. “Because of some the programs and policies in place in our bigger cities now, terrorists may be looking to smaller towns or cities to strike,” he said. “We have to be prepared in case that happens.”
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USAPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions10/1/2007 | Iran, Terrorism
U.S. offers $200K in Taliban, al-Qaeda 'Most Wanted' campaign
USA Today
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military has launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of a dozen Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders. Posters and billboards are being put up around eastern Afghanistan with the names and pictures of the 12, with reward amounts ranging from $20,000 to $200,000. "We're trying to get more visibility on these guys like the FBI did with the mob," said Lt. Col. Rob Pollack, a U.S. officer at the main American base in Bagram. "They operate the same way the mob did, they stay in hiding." The list does not include internationally known names who already have large price tags on their heads like al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden — who has evaded U.S. capture since 2001 despite a $25 million bounty — or Taliban leader Mullah Omar with a $10 million reward. Instead, the list is filled with local insurgent cell leaders responsible for roadside and suicide bomb attacks.
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