US paid bounty to arrest Canadian terror suspect

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

OTTAWA (AFP) — A US intelligence agency paid a 500,000-dollar bounty to Pakistan's military for the arrest of the Canadian son of a suspected Al-Qaeda financier, said court documents.

According to an October 2004 memo to the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ordered released by Canada's federal court, Abdullah Khadr was wanted for "supporting insurgent activity in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

Thus, Khadr "is deemed to be a national security threat and has a 500,000 US dollar outstanding bounty for his capture," said the memo published on the website of the daily Globe and Mail, which fought for its disclosure.

~snip~

"Rather than getting its own hands dirty, the US simply paid the Musharraf regime 500,000 dollars to arrest Mr Khadr, knowing full well what Pakistan would do to him.

"The US then did all it could to hide this secret arrangement from the Canadian judge hearing Mr Khadr's case," Whitling charged.



Read more: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hnVTAuss8I6zePg8J0eY4SWQyheQ

[mac2]

1. Guess that didn't work for finding Bin Laden.

Our secrets ragarding our being there has been kept in tact.

[ohio2007]

2. The U.S. Quietly Slashes the Reward Posted for the Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq

In an unannounced change, the bounty for a most wanted terrorist is reduced from $5 million to $100,000
By Anna Mulrine, Kevin Whitelaw
Posted May 12, 2008


The U.S. government has quietly withdrawn a $5 million reward it was offering for the killing or capture of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, named by Pentagon officials as the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Al-Masri had been one of America's most wanted figures in Iraq ever since his identity was revealed in 2006. But U.S. News has learned that the bounty for him was reduced and that he was unceremoniously dropped in late February
snip
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/iraq/2008/05/12/the-us-quietly-slashes-the-reward-posted-for-the-leader-of-al-qaeda-in-iraq.html


no respect