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U.S. withdraws $3 million bounty for Somali jihadist who defected

Mar 9, 2015 4:49 pm By Robert Spencer

Hersi“He added that the U.S withdrawal of the bounty followed ‘negotiations between the Somali and the US governments to establish clearly and beyond doubt that Zaki has renounced violence.'” Oh, well, then it’s OK: he has ”

“U.S. withdraws $3 million bounty for Somali Islamist who defected,” Reuters, March 9, 2015:

NAIROBI – The United States has withdrawn a $3 million bounty linked to the capture of a high-level member of Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group who had since defected, a U.S. official said on Monday.

The Somali government welcomed the move and thanked Washington for supporting its efforts to persuade senior figures to quit the al Qaeda-linked organization, which has launched attacks across east Africa.

The U.S. State Department offered a total of $33 million in 2012 for information leading to the capture of Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi and six other al Shabaab leaders.

Hersi — described on local media as the general secretary of al Shabaab’s finance department — surrendered to Somali government forces in December, Somali and U.S. officials said.

Breeann McCusker, a spokeswoman for the Somalia Unit of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, said on Monday that Hersi had now been removed from the “Rewards for Justice” list, without going into the reasons for the decision.

Al Shabaab wants to topple the Western-backed Mogadishu government and impose its own strict version of Islamic law but it has been losing territory in Somalia to a military offensive by African Union troops and Somali forces.

The Somali government, which has offered al Shabaab leaders amnesties if they leave, said Hersi had now embraced the peace process.

“The Federal Government confirms it will support defecting leaders or militants in the transition back into Somali society and, where necessary, will advocate upon their behalf,” Somali presidential spokesman Daud Aweis said in a statement.

He added that the U.S withdrawal of the bounty followed “negotiations between the Somali and the US governments to establish clearly and beyond doubt that Zaki has renounced violence”.

A senior member of al Shabaab’s media team said in December that Hersi left the Islamist group two years earlier. REUTERS

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Filed Under: Al-Shabaab, Somalia Tagged With: Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi


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  1. Sam says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    I hope Obama adm. will send my tax dollars to Somali government to rehabilate these Muslims who denounce violance.

  2. RonaldB says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 12:40 am

    Actually, I think the US probably ought to exhibit a certain amount of flexibility at the request of governments it supports. Not that I believe Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi is anything but a rat leaving a sinking ship…but, even rats have their uses.

    The US “rehabilitated” the Nazi rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun, who had no idea at all that Germany used slave labor to construct the rockets he managed. Sometimes, you have to hold your breath and take a pragmatic, though not completely moral, step.

    So, I think the US government may have gotten this right…or, at least as right as it’s likely to be.

  3. More Ham Ed says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 2:50 am

    He renounced … (taqiyya) … violence. Sorry I had to sneeze.

  4. M S case says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    TDRUST…………….There is no such thing in islam

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