The US president has placed a $5million bounty on the head of a key Islamic State terrorist in charge of mobilizing foreign fighters in Syria. The man's name is Abu-Muhammad al-Shimali and last night, the US government announced the reward for information leading to the location or identification of the terrorist also known as Tirad al-Jarba. The bounty note states:
‘Shimali and the Isis immigration and logistics committee coordinate smuggling activities, financial transfers, and the movement of supplies into Syria and Iraq from Europe, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
‘In 2014, Shimali facilitated the travel from Turkey to Syria of prospective Isis fighters from Australia, Europe and the Middle East, and managed Isis’s processing centre for new recruits in Azaz, Syria.’
Shimali, who has also been described as Isis’s gatekeeper, was placed on a US Treasury Department sanctions list in September last year, freezing his financial assets and banning him from travel.
Earlier this week Vladmir Putin offered a $50m (£33m) reward for information which leads to the arrest of those responsible for the bombing of Metrojet Flight which killed 224 people and which Russia confirmed was caused by an ‘act of terrorism’.
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