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State Department ads began appearing this month in Jang, a widely circulated Pakistani newspaper, offering rewards for bin Laden, his lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and 11 other suspected terrorists. The ads have elicited an average of 12 responses a day, and will be followed by an advertising barrage on regional radio and TV stations in the borderlands and cities where al-Qaeda's chief might be hiding, according to the State Department. U.S. reward offers were posted soon after 9/11, but officials concede that little effort was made to circulate the offers widely...
...cannot have helped Habib that Australia's security services had been watching him for almost a decade. What first caught their eye were his connections with four Egyptians in New York. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, Mahmud Abouhalima, Sayyid Nosair and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman all had ties to al-Qaeda; all were convicted of involvement in the 1993 plot to bomb the World Trade Center. Habib joined protests at Nosair's 1991 trial for murdering a rabbi, tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable...
...behalf of Red Sox fans everywhere: Thanks Omar...
...Omar Minaya, the new Mets GM, deserves credit for a successful offseason...
...CAPTURED. TOOR MULLAH NAQIBULLAH KHAN, chief of security for hard-line Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, and MULLAH QAYOOM ANGAR, another Taliban commander; by Afghan security forces acting on a tip from a Taliban insider; outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. Khan's capture could help U.S. and Afghan forces track down Omar, one of the most wanted fugitives in the U.S.-led war on terror. Afghan officials say the arrests, along with the capture of 17 other suspected militants last week, could also signal a weakening of the Taliban's three-year insurgency...