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Angry jihadist puts bounty on Russian journalists after battlefield woes
2020-03-16
[ALMASDARNEWS] A well-known jihadist propagandist posted a bounty on his Telegram channel this past weekend, calling for the killing of two Russian field journalists who have extensively covered the Syrian war from the front-lines.

Tahir al-’Umar of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) posted on his Telegram channel that he would give any hard boy $25,000 (USD) to kill Russian journalists Evgeny Poddubnyy or Oleg Blokhin.

Al-’Umar offered $50,000 (USD) if either Russian journalist is killed by a sniper and $100,000 if they kidnap the journalists or a Russian soldier.

Posted by:Fred

#2  They're Russian.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-16 11:46  

#1  Isn't any threat against any journalist the sort of thing that gets the usual suspects wetting their pants? What's different this time?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-03-16 02:16  

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