Russia pays $10M bounty for Maskhadov

From today's Boston Globe:

"Russia says it paid $10m bounty

Sum to informers for Chechen rebel

By Steve Gutterman, Associated Press | March 16, 2005

MOSCOW -- Russia's security service announced yesterday that it paid an unprecedented $10 million to informers who helped track down the late Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov -- an effort to give credibility to its renewed offer of an identical prize for the Kremlin's number one foe, warlord Shamil Basayev".

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Perhaps the bounties are starting to pay off. Once the world sees that these sums are really being paid out, could Bin Laden be next? After all, every man has his price.........