The United States is still
maintaining the $7 million (N1.4
billion) bounty it placed on the
leader of the Islamic sect, Boko
Haram.
The US Department of State on
Wednesday issued a list of 71
most-wanted terrorists in the
world with bounties totalling
$375m (N74.6bn) as “rewards for
information that leads to (their)
arrest or conviction.”
Rewards for Justice, a State
Department’s anti-terrorism
programme, had first offered the
amount as a reward to persons with
information on the whereabouts of
the Boko Haram leader in June
2013.
The President Barack Obama-led
administration, in the fresh list,
placed a whopping $25 million, the
single largest bounty, on Ayman al-
Zawahiri, suspected to be one of
the doctors and advisors to Osama
bin Laden, the late leader of al-
Qaeda.
Al-Zawahiri is suspected to have
played a role in bombing of the US
embassy in 1998.
Four Islamic State terrorists
appeared on the list with a total of
$20 million bounty on them.
They were Abd al-Rahman Mustafa
al-Qaduli ($7 million); IS’s official
spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-
Adnani ($5 million); Tarkhan
Tayumurazovich Batirashvili alias
‘Omar the Chechen’ ($5 million);
and Tariq Bin-al-Tahar Bin al
Falih al-’Awni al-Harzi ($3
million).
A senior leader of the IS, Abu Du’a
alias Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; and
al-Zawahiri’s deputy and self-
proclaimed leader of al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-
Wahishi, and four others had $10
million bounty placed on each of
them.
Shekau was among the three with
$7 million bounty. Others were a
senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iran,
Muhsin al-Fadhli; and Abd al-
Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli.
Forty six terrorists had $5 million
placed on each of them. They
include a founder of Harakat
Shabaab al-Mujahidin and a senior
leader in al-Shabaab, Ibrahim Haji
Jama; an expert in chemical
weapons and explosives in al-Qaeda,
Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-
Bakri; and the Operational
Commander of al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula, Othman al-
Ghamdi.
Eleven terrorists, including only
two women on the list, have a $3
million on each of them. The women,
Zerrin Sari and Seher Demir Sen,
are members of a Turkish military/
political party and the terrorist
group, Revolutionary People’s
Liberation Party/Front.
The second in command of a radical
Ahl-e-Hadith Islamist
organisation, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba,
Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki; and an
explosives expert in the Hezb-e
Islami Gulbuddin group, Abdullah
Nowbahar, have a $2 million bounty
on each of them.
With a $1 million bounty each were
a senior leader of the Abu Sayyaf
group based in Philippines, Radullan
Sahiron; and an explosives expert in
the Abu Sayyaf and the Jemaah
Islamiyah terrorist organisations,
both in the Philippines, Abdul Basit
Usman.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
