Increasingly desperate to get a handle on the surging al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) seizure of territory, Iraq has announced a bounty of $17,200 for each foreign militant linked to AQI killed, and another $25,800 for each captured.
AQI has been taking over increasing amounts of territory in recent weeks, including large portions of the Anbar Province and more recently the town of Sulaiman Bek.
The bounty announcement comes in the wake of pledges by the Maliki government of millions of dollars in cash and weapons to Sunni militias in return for fighting AQI in Anbar.
The plan is risky, however, as Iraq has struggled with corruption for years, and the offer of cash for “dead foreign fighters” may encourage cash-starved militias to kill random foreigners and try to pass them off as AQI.
Does this apply to Mossad and CIA, too?
Or pro-war politicians and think tank analysts?
Maliki sure knows how to catapult his country further into oblivion, on orders from his puppet masters. Now Iraqi's will be killing their neighbors for thirty pieces of silver…..wait a minute, unlike Iraq, Syria is over run with "foreign fighters" Assad should do the same…..naw, the US would use that as a language to invade.
I'm sure Maliki plans on disallowing most of the "heads" that might be claimed for the bounty…he'll pay for a few to make it look like he's following thru with his offer but the majority will be refused as not being AQI.
hahaha – it's the Petreus Surge!
The Iraqis will try to do it on the cheap and blow it, then Sadr will come and knock Maliki out