December 13, 2004

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  Australian Tells of Bounties in Iraq

  
  

   

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  Sat Dec 11,10:43 PM ET

  
  

  
  

  CANBERRA, Australia - Contract killers are being offered as little as $50 to target coalition soldiers in Iraq, the commander of Australian forces said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

  
  

  Air Commodore Greg Evens, who took command of Australia's 350 soldiers in Iraq last month, said Iraqi insurgents were hiring assassins from neighboring Middle Eastern countries with the promise of cash payments for every soldier they killed.
  

  
  

  "This is a difficult adversary," he told Sydney's The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
  

   

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