Saudi Royal Offers $900K for Capture of Israeli Soldier

Israel's freeing of a thousand Palestinian prisoners in return for one captured soldier must have sounded like a pretty good deal to Prince Khaled bin Talal. The Saudi royal, brother of billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has added $900,000 to a prominent Saudi cleric's offer of $100,000 to anybody who captures an Israeli soldier, Reuters reports.

"I tell Sheik al-Qarani that I support you and I will pay $900,000 to make it $1 million to capture an Israeli soldier to release other prisoners," the prince, who holds no official government position, told a Saudi TV station. In Israel, extremists have offered a $100,000 reward to anybody who kills one of the 1,027 prisoners released in return for Gilad Shalit, if that prisoner had killed Israelis. (More Saudi Arabia stories.)