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« on: June 05, 2013, 02:58:31 pm »

FBI offers millions of $ for these radicals muslims islamics who could be in your neighbourhood or even your neighbours:
Washington offre depuis lundi jusqu'à 23 millions de dollars de récompense pour toute information conduisant notamment à la capture du jihadiste Mokhtar Belmokhtar, celle du chef de la secte islamiste nigériane Boko Haram, ou des responsables d'Aqmi, une première contre des "terroristes" d'Afrique de l'Ouest.

D'autres responsables du groupe Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique (Aqmi) sont également visés par ce programme du département d'Etat, baptisé "récompenses pour la justice", qui offre depuis 1984 des sommes d'argent à tout informateur permettant l'arrestation ou l'élimination d'individus qui menacent les intérêts des Etats-Unis.

La plus grosse récompense, sept millions de dollars, est réservée au n°1 présumé de Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, qui combat actuellement l'armée du Nigeria dans le nord-est du pays.

Une manne de cinq millions de dollars est également offerte à quiconque apportera des renseignements décisifs concernant l'Algérien Belmokhtar, un ancien chef d'Aqmi qui a monté son propre groupe fin 2012. Donné pour mort par le Tchad en avril, il a menacé il y a dix jours de lancer de nouvelles attaques au Niger après les attentats suicide de la fin mai. Son groupe avait mené une énorme prise d'otages en janvier dans un complexe gazier en Algérie.

Cinq millions de dollars sont également promis pour la tête de Yahya Abou Al-Hammam, un dirigeant algérien d'Aqmi accusé d'être impliqué dans le meurtre d'un otage français en 2010.

Malik Abou Abdelkarim, commandant d'Aqmi, et Oumar Ould Hamahathe porte-parole du Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (Mujao), un groupe islamiste chassé du Mali en janvier, sont également la cible de Washington, avec trois millions chacun de récompenses.

"Aqmi est de plus en actif dans le Nord et l'Ouest de l'Afrique. Ils font partie des tout premiers groupes qui kidnappent contre rançons dans la nébuleuse terroriste mondiale", a dit à l'AFP un responsable du département d'Etat.

"Ils représentent pour nous une grande source d'inquiétudes. Tout ce que nous pouvons faire pour réduire les capacités d'Aqmi, pour obtenir des informations sur ces individus et les traduire en justice, c'est notre objectif", a expliqué ce diplomate américain, sous couvert de l'anonymat.

Les Etats-Unis s'alarment depuis des mois de la puissance des groupes islamistes armés dans le Sahel et en Afrique de l'Ouest, notamment d'Aqmi et de Boko Haram. Washington a applaudi et appuyé l'opération militaire française au Mali.

La campagne du département d'Etat lancée lundi se fera notamment via des affiches placardées au Mali, au Nigeria et dans les pays voisins, plaçant sur le même poster des photos de dirigeants d'Aqmi et de Boko Haram.

"Ils entretiennent des relations depuis un moment", notamment avec des entraînements et des caches d'armes communes, selon le responsable du ministère".

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U.S. Offers $23 Million for AQIM, Boko Haram Bosses


by Naharnet Newsdesk 03 June 2013, 18:35

In an unprecedented move, the United States on Monday posted up to $23 million in rewards to help track down five leaders of militant groups accused of spreading terror in west Africa.

The highest reward of $7 million is offered for the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who last week called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the bloody fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.

The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program also targeted al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), offering its first ever bounties for wanted militants in west Africa.

Up to $5 million was posted for al-Qaida veteran Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist behind the devastating attack on an Algerian gas plant in January in which 37 foreigners, including three Americans, were killed.

A further $5 million was offered for top AQIM leader Yahya Abou Al-Hammam, reportedly involved in the 2010 murder of an elderly French hostage in Niger.

Malik Abou Abdelkarim, a senior fighter with AQIM, and Oumar Ould Hamaha, the spokesman for Mali's Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), were also targeted by the rewards program, which will give up to $3 million each for information leading to their arrests.

"AQIM has been increasingly active in north and west Africa. They're one of the pre-eminent kidnap for ransom groups in the terrorist world right now," a senior State Department official told Agence France Presse, asking not to be named.

"They cause us a great deal of concern. Anything that we can do naturally to cut down on the capabilities of AQIM, anything that we can do to get information on these people so that we can get them in front of a court... That is our goal."

The United States has been increasingly worried about the spread of Islamist groups in Mali and across the vast and lawless Sahel since a military coup ousted the government in Bamako.

Former colonial power France has led a military offensive since January against the militants in Mali's northern desert, as the west African nation prepares for presidential elections on July 28.

There are fears however that the spread of militant groups risks destabilizing the entire west African region.

Belmokhtar, who was a senior commander for AQIM, broke away from the group last year to set up his own group dubbed the "Signatories in Blood."

Branded "the Uncatchable," Belmokhtar also personally supervised the operational plans for the twin car bombings in Niger that killed at least 20 people late last month, according to a spokesman for his group.

Monday's rewards acknowledged the growing links between AQIM and Nigeria's Boko Haram, which is under pressure from a military offensive.

"They've had a relationship for some time. They send people back and forth for training, they've done the provision of arms back and forth," the State Department official said.

"The links are... not quite as solid as some of the other terrorist organizations," he said. "Nonetheless, it's a dangerous link and it's something that we feel we should try and stop."

Shekau, in a video obtained by AFP last week, claimed his forces had made significant gains against the Nigerian army while sustaining little damage since the start of the military offensive on May 15.

"Under his leadership, Boko Haram's capability has certainly grown," the State Department official told AFP.

He highlighted how the group set off "their first improvised explosive device in early June 2011. By August (2011) they used a car bomb against the United Nations facility," an attack which killed 25 people.

"When we see someone like this who... is actually leading to an increase in the capability of an organization, that's something that we would naturally try to see if we can do something to impede," he added.

Shekau's whereabouts could not be determined in the video, in which he is shown seated and dressed in camouflage and a turban, with an AK-47 at his side.

His comments contradict statements from the military, which has claimed major successes during the offensive, including the destruction of Boko Haram camps and dozens of arrests.

Shekau was placed on a U.S. blacklist last year, but Boko Haram has yet to be designated a foreign terrorist organization -- an absence which has raised eyebrows among regional experts.

Source: Agence France Presse
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