US offers bounties for five most wanted men in Iraq

An Iraqi security man looks at a new poster distributed by the US army, offering a total of 16.5 million dollars for the capture of the five most wanted men suspected of leading the insurgency in Iraq and of terror attacks yesterday in Baghdad. The picture of Saddam Hussein's right hand man, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, came first on the list, with a 10-million-dollar bounty. Next came Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian said to be leading an Al-Qaeda affiliated terror group operating in Iraq, who has a five million-dollar price on his head.. PHOTO: AFP

The picture of Saddam Hussein's right hand man, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, came first on the list, with a 10-million-dollar bounty.

Next came Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian said to be leading an Al-Qaeda affiliated terror group operating in Iraq, who has a five million-dollar price on his head.

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A member of Saddam's outlawed Baath party command, Mohammed Yunes al-Ahmad, is worth one million dollars to whoever turns him in.

Numbers four and five on the list each have 250,000-dollar bounties.

They are Abdulbaki Abdulkarim Abdullah al-Saadun, the head of the Baath party military bureau in Diyala province, east of Baghdad, and Moamar Ahmad Yussef al-Jaber, of unspecified nationality, who is described as "the deputy of a terrorist chief."

The three Iraqis are "wanted for encouraging and directing efforts against the (US-led) coalition and the Governing Council", according to the text of the poster published in Arabic by the 1st Armoured Division.