Add two more Middle Eastern terrorists to the $5 million club. The State Department this week put Mohammed Ali Hamadei, an alleged leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, and Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, a founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in its Rewards for Justice program.

Although both men have figured on U.S. wanted lists for years, they now join 32 other terrorist fugitives in the rewards program, which typically offers up to $5 million for tips leading to arrests.

Hamadei has been on the FBI's wanted list since his 1985 indictment for the infamous hijacking of TWA Flight 847, a 17-day ordeal during which terrorists brutalized passengers and murdered U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem. Nabbed by German authorities in 1987, he was given a life sentence and tossed into prison. But in December 2005, in what the Counterterrorism Blog's Andrew Cochran calls "a unique act of cowardice and weakness," German officials paroled him–despite U.S. protests–and he quickly fled to Lebanon.

The other fellow, Shallah, has served since 1985 as secretary general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a small but hyperviolent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Based in Damascus, Syria, the group has claimed responsibility for scores of terrorist attacks against Israel since 2000, killing U.S. citizens along with Israelis. Shallah's leadership has earned him a place on the U.S. terrorist blacklist since 1995.

Shallah is no street thug: He has a Ph.D. in banking and economics from a British university and has worked as a professor in several countries. He's wanted by the FBI for running Islamic Jihad "through a pattern of racketeering activities such as bombings, murders, extortions, and money laundering."

Top Photo Caption: Mohammed Ali Hamadei

Photo Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Bottom Photo Caption: Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah

Photo Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation