US offers $23m for Boko Haram leader, Shekau & 4 others

Posted by: b3rrilyn in GIST, News Jun 4, 2013

In an unprecedented move, the�United States�on Monday�posted�up to $23 million in rewards to help capture five leaders of militant groups which have spread terror in�west Africa�and Nigeria.

The highest reward of up to $7 million is offered for the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists, Abubakar Shekau, while $5 million each was�posted�for Al-Qaeda veteran Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Yahya Abou Al-Hammam, a top figure in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, US officials said.