I don't think you'll get anyone to take you up on the local elder thing. If someone turns in the local elder and gets a whole lot of cash their life expectancy

I don't think you'll get anyone to take you up on the local elder thing. If someone turns in the local elder and gets a whole lot of cash their life expectancy won't be very good. Cash is only good if you're alive to spend it. Look at it this way, we've had insane rewards out on Osama Bin Laden for a while and have precisely dick as a result. On a side note, you also need really good intel on the ground to make sure that the guy you're paying money for really is a local elder and not some poor sucker who's being handed over for the money. Getting good intel in Somalia is a non-trivial problem.