$25 million reward for terror figure sharply cut, or not

No explanation for flipflop on bounty
for man said to be part of Iraq attacks

An extraordinary $25 million reward for a Jordanian believed by U.S. officials to be the leading al-Qaida figure operating inside Iraq was quietly downgraded to $5 million Thursday. Then, just as mysteriously, it was restored to $25 million on Friday.

FOR TWO DAYS, the man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been one of only five men for whom the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program had offered the special bounty, which was posted on Tuesday, his 38th birthday. Al-Zarqawi, whose real name is Ahmad Fadhil al-Khalayleh, briefly joined only Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and bin Laden’s two deputies, Ayman al Zawahiri and Saif al-Adil, on that elite list.
The Rewards for Justice program is managed by the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI. Thursday, its Web site was offering only $5 million for information leading to al-Zarqawi’s capture. Almost two dozen figures are on that less exclusive list.

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What's the legallity of offering a reward? How much evidence is 'enough' to offer a reward for a person? Can/do foreign countries offer rewards to get American citizens?

I can just see Junior with 25 mil in one hand and a 50 cent bullet in the other debating which one he would rather give away. My guess is someone trying to collect the reward would get the 50 cent bullet.

Don