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Home Front: WoT
U.S. Offers $5 Mn Reward for IS Foreign Fighter Smuggler
2015-11-20
[AnNahar] The United States issued a $5 million reward Wednesday for information leading to the capture of a Saudi-born jihadist accused of smuggling imported muscle into Syria.

The State Department said that Tirad al-Jarba, known under the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Shimali, is a senior member of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
krazed killer group.

He had already been designated a terrorist by the United States and the U.N. Security Council, which has imposed a travel ban on him and ordered his assets frozen.

According to his U.N. sanctions listing he is 35 years old, and will turn 36 on Friday. He is said to be from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and to have been a former Al-Qaeda member.

The State Department wanted notice issued on Wednesday describes him as the IS leader in the Syrian border town of Jarablus, opposite the Turkish town of Gaziantep.

From there he is said to arrange passage for foreign IS fighters from Australia, Europe and the broader Middle East, while managing a recruitment center in Azaz.

Jarba's name was added to the "Rewards for Justice" program as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and the United States were preparing a major operation to secure the border near Jarablus.
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