WASHINGTON - The United States posted $18
million in rewards Friday for the capture of four African militants
involved in the kidnapping of foreigners and attacks on Western targets.
Some $5 million each was
offered for a former member of Nigeria’s Boko Haram and two founding
leaders of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao)
based in the Maghreb region.
A fourth reward of $3 million was set for an Egyptian extremist who has plotted against the US, the State Department said.
Khalid Al Barnawi was named
as a leader of the Nigeria-based group known as Ansaru that split from
Boko Haram in early 2012, the agency’s Rewards for Justice program said
in a statement.
The group has close ties to Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) and
was behind the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a raid on a
construction site in restive northern Nigeria in February 2013.
Source: channelnewsasia
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