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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bounties on PKK leaders a strange move by US
2018-11-10
[Rudaw] This week the United States announced that it was offering a bounty of several million dollars for information leading to the arrest of three top Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leaders. A "bounty" of $5 million dollars was placed on People’s Defense Forces (HPG) leader Murat Karayilan, $4 million for Cemil Bayik, and $3 million for Duran Kalkan.

The bounties are part of the US State Department’s "Rewards for Justice" program. Established by the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism, the program states that "the Secretary of State may offer rewards for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who plans, commits, aids or attempts international terrorist acts against US persons or property, that prevents such acts from occurring in the first place, that leads to the identification or location of a key terrorist leader, or that disrupts terrorism financing."

The US State Department’s website claims that since the start of the program in 1984, "the United States has paid in excess of $125 million to more than 80 people who provided credible information that brought faceless myrmidons to justice or prevented acts of international terrorism worldwide. The program played a significant role in the arrest of international terrorist Ramzi Yusef, who was convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Today, the Rewards for Justice Program continues to play a critical role in US counterterrorism initiatives around the globe."
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  The problem in the past is that they have offered million dollar rewards. The people there wouldn't know what to do with that much money and it would be hard to hide and they would be outed. Offer something smaller like a $10k reward, maybe less.
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-10 15:42  

#1  A bounty on Kurdish Kommies? Long overdue... even if Sultan Yipyip I is a putz.
Posted by: Punky Hitler5848   2018-11-10 08:33  

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