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June 7, 2012
Other People's Money
The Obama administration will offer up to $33 million in rewards for information about top members of an Islamist extremist group in Somalia linked to al-Qaida, US officials said on Wednesday (see below).
Which would be very magnanimous were it not for the fact that the object of their magnanimity is other people's money, i.e., the American taxpayer.
Nevertheless, we’d support such an effort if it were serious, but it isn't, for the simple reason that Obama et al prefer killing these folks from above (i.e., with drones) rather than capturing and interrogating them, since the latter may require using insensitive interrogation techniques.
As for offering secret information to the US, well, that ship has long sailed. The unprecedented leaking of top secret information by the Obama administration in the last few weeks (e.g., to Hollywood movie producers making a film about the bin Laden raid, which will no doubt air prior to the upcoming presidential election; or to our enemies and everyone else about the Stuxnet virus, how it was created, how it worked and who created it), is enough to dissuade anyone from revealing anything to Blabbermouth Central.
Telegraph.co.uk | June 7, 2012
US Offers $33 Million Bounty On Al-Shabaab Insurgents
The Obama administration will offer up to $33 million in rewards for information about top members of an Islamist extremist group in Somalia linked to al-Qaida, US officials said on Wednesday.
Hard-line Islamist Al Shabab fighters conduct military exercise in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood, Somalia Photo: AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh
The rewards for seven leaders of the al-Shabab militia movement will be announced on Thursday by the State Department, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement.
The bounties will be administered by the department's Rewards for Justice program. It will be first time the programme has offered rewards for members of al-Shabab, which is accused of terrorist attacks in Somalia, Uganda and Kenya.
The programme will offer up to $7 million for al-Shabab's founder, Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed; up to $5 million each for his associates, Ibrahim Haji Jama, Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud and Mukhtar Robow; and up to $3 million for Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi and Abdullahi Yare, according to the officials.
Al-Shabab and al-Qaeda formally joined organisations earlier this year, though the ties between the groups already were strong. Al-Shabab counts hundreds of foreign fighters among its ranks, including fighters with experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
In April, the US government warned that it continues to receive information about potential terrorist threats aimed at US, Western and Kenyan targets inside Kenya.
Original article here.
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