Department of State on Wednesday issued a list of 71 most-wanted terrorists in the world with bounties totalling $375m (N74.6bn) as "reward 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 whooping $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 terrorists appeared on the list with a total of $20 million bounty on them.
They were Abd al- Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli ($7million); IS's official spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani ($5million);Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili alias 'Omar the Ochechen'($5million); and Tariq Bin-al-Tahar Bin-al Falih al-'Awni al- Harzi ($3million).
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 Penninsula, 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 gounder 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 lists, have a$3 million on each of them. The women, Zerrin Sari amd 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 organization, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba,Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki; and an explosives expert in the Hezb-e-Isami Gulbuddin group, Abudullah Nowbahar, have a $2 million bounty on each of them.
With a $1 million bounty each were on 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 organizations, both in the Philippines, Abdul Basit Usman.
Ironic since combined they aren't even worth a cup of warm spit.
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