The United States announced Thursday a $ 10 million reward for information on two top leaders of the al-Qaeda terror network in the Arabian Peninsula.
The State Department's Rewards for Justice program provides up to $ 6 million for information leading to the identification or location of Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki, and up to $ 4 million for information leading to the identification or location of Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qusi.
In a news release announcing the rewards, the State Department said that Awlaki, the prince of one of Yemen's provinces, has publicly called for attacks against the United States and its allies, while Qusi is part of the command team that is helping the current al-Qaeda emir on the island. The Arabs.
Al-Qusi, who was born in Sudan, was previously held in US custody and held at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
After more than nine years in detention, he pleaded guilty in 2010 to conspiring with al-Qaeda and providing support for terrorism and was returned to Sudan in 2012 under a preliminary trial agreement.