Thursday, October 06, 2011
Abu Du'a
Al-Qaeda’s top leader in Iraq now has a $10 million bounty on his head, thanks to the U.S. government.
Dr. Ibrahim ‘Awwad Ibrahim ‘Ali (aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurshi, aka Abu Du’a) is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaeda’s front group. He was added to the global terrorists list by the State Department, which includes the offer of $10 million for information leading to his capture.
Abu Du’a joins two other Islamists as the most-wanted terrorists in the world. The others are Ayman al-Zawahiri, who replaced Osama bin Laden as the head of al-Qaeda, whose U.S. reward totals $25 million, and Mullah Omar, the head of the Afghan Taliban, whose bounty is $10 million.
Abu Du’a has led al-Qaeda in Iraq since Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the group’s founder, was killed by Iraqi and American troops in April 2010.
On August 19 of this year, Abu Du’a announced the “Plan of Good Harvest”, a threatened series of one hundred attacks meant as retaliation for the killing of Osama bin Laden and other senior leaders.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
US Adds Al Qaeda in Iraq's Emir to List of Designated Terrorists (by Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal)
Where is Al-Qaeda Still Operating? (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)
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