So much for “Stop This Terrorist.”
This is a little awkward, but it’s not the first time it’s happened.
Here’s the US government’s Rewards for Justice site on the guy who just took over Syria.
Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Muhammad al-Jawlani, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Golani and Muhammad al-Julani. Al-Jawlani leads the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), al-Qa’ida’s (AQ) affiliate in Syria. In January 2017, ANF merged with several other hardline opposition groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). While al-Jawlani is not the leader of HTS, he remains the leader of AQ-affiliated ANF, which is at the core of HTS.
In April 2013, al-Jawlani pledged allegiance to AQ and its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. In July 2016, al-Jawlani praised AQ and al-Zawahiri in an online video and claimed the ANF was changing its name to Jabhat Fath Al Sham (“Conquest of the Levant Front”)
And, not mentioned here, but the future Caliph of ISIS, helped set up Al-Jawlani in business.
But I think we have some information on where he is now. And we’re talking to his people who are talking to our people and maybe someday we’ll do lunch.
The United States has been passing messages through the Turkish government in recent days to the rebel groups involved in the lightning blitz that suddenly took down Mr. al-Assad, mainly warning them against teaming up with militants from the Islamic State. The groups responded through the Turks with assurances that they had no intention of allowing the Islamic State to be part of their movement, according to U.S. and Turkish officials briefed on the messages.
Not only are we turning over what little authority we have to the Turkish state sponsors of the terrorists, but the idiots at Foggy Bottom are wasting that on telling HTS not to ally with ISIS. We already know they won’t ally with ISIS. There was a pretty bad breakup and ISIS tends to be petty on those points. Jawlani doesn’t need ISIS and isn’t likely to ally with it anyway.
U.S. intelligence agencies and top officials in the Biden administration are still in the process of evaluating the group and its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who is eager for legitimacy and has mounted what one senior U.S. official characterized as a “charm offensive” aimed at allaying concerns about the organization’s intentions and past affiliations.
The way the official put it, “A charm offensive might mean that people are turning over a new leaf and they think differently than they used to, so you should hear them out. On the other hand, you should be cautious because charm offensives can sometimes be misleading.”
Just ask the Taliban and the suckers who fell for their charm offensive.
But now Mr. Biden and his top advisers are debating the extent to which they should engage directly with the rebel groups going forward, according to the officials, who described internal deliberations on the condition of anonymity…
U.S. officials said that the Biden administration was allowed to talk to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its leader even though they are on the terrorist list, but that it could not provide them with material support.
Give them time.
Notice there’s no mention of taking that $10M reward seriously. Just at the moment a reluctance to violate the law by providing material support to terrorists. Biden’s people found ways around that with Iran. I have confidence that given a second term they would have figured out a lot of ways in Syria.
As it is, I imagine we’ll be sending a whole lot of aid to Syria. And it amounts to the same thing.
So much for “Stop This Terrorist.”
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Muhammad al-Jawlani, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Golani and Muhammad al-Julani.”
Hmm, let’s see.
Three names.
Why?
Is it to confuse infidels?
Aloha Snackbar says
Nah, ir is just because most arabs are illiterate, and write a name as it sounds to the ear.
St Croix says
I wonder, do they have a Tip Line? I think I know where the criminal is hiding out! Do you think they will fork over some of that cash if I tell them?
Aloha Snackbar says
So, does this mean that if I take a 5 minute drive to the Syrian border from Israel, hope across, and bring the head of Al Jolani back to the American Embassy in Jerusalem, that I can claim the $10 million reward?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So al Qaeda’s new head honcho is al-Jawlani/al-Golani/al-Julani? So now its center of operations is either Idlib, or Damascus, depending on how tied they are w/ the Turks. This would be in addition to Mali, which is their West African operation
So will Trump now send Boulos to talk to this guy?
Aloha Snackbar says
@DanielGreenfield
Have you posted this article to Israel National News?
I have been talking about this bounty of 10 million for this guy for a few days already in the comment section of A7.
Skeptiker says
Ich kann auch Hinweise zum Aufenthaltsort des Gesuchten geben ! Wo kann ich es melden ? Wo wird die Belohnung ausgezahlt ? Kann Jemand weiterhelfen ? Ich brauch dringend Geld.
Troybeam says
So top Muslim has a reward on his head and officials knew where to find him but did nothing and kept the reward open, fools on the hill need to go.
Aloha Snackbar says
What does it take to get your comments past the censor here?
John1 says
People should call the 1-800-USREWARDS number and tell them the dude is in Damascus chatting with the BBC.
John1 says
People should call the 1-800-USREWARDS number and tell them the dude is in Damascus chatting with the BBC.
Ben says
Non muslim countries shouldn’t send any money for the rebuilding of Syria. That should be a job for the rich Arab countries.
Frankie says
Tomorrow Biden will bestow the reward to al-Jawlani
memi says
Lt.Col. Tulsi Gabbard had gone to Syria in 2017 on a fact-finding mission (Democrats didn’t approve) to find out how the minorities were treated. She had said then that if the Assad regime would fall, the terrorists would make Syria an Islamofascist terrorist region and would exterminate minorities.
Despot Assad will prove to be “Mother Teresa” compared to what Al-Qaeda/ISIS terrorist “leader” al-Jawlani will be imposing on Syria–soon to be an Islamist state with a Turkish flag also posted next to the terrorist one.
In Idlib, Al-Jawlani had forced all women to wear burqas and exterminated quite a number of Christians and Kurds.
Israel did a great job of destroying Assad’s arsenal of bombs/weapons and should try to gain a foothold in Syria, guard the Golan and make sure the terrorists now running Syria do not grow too amorous with Erdogan who thinks he have his neo-Ottoman Caliphate in Syria and can get away with anything that he can’t back home in genocidal Turkey.
The Kurds should have their own state of almost 60 million now spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria and only if such state is created will Israel be able to feel safe from these terrorist Islamist fanatics–of any country.
It would be appreciated if Israel were to claim the $10 million reward for the capture of terrorist al-Jawlani and distribute the funds to the families of the those victims who were abducted by al-Jawline’s boyfriends in Hamas!