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,
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