#AlQaeda: The US $10 million cash bounties & What is to be done? Bill Roggio, FDD
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
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#AlQaeda: The US $10 million cash bounties & What is to be done? Bill Roggio, FDD
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2023/01/u-s-offers-10-million-bounty-for-top-shabaab-military-commander.php
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| 0:40.8 | Al Qaeda in 2023, Bill Rageo and his colleagues keep the long-word journal. We go immediately |
| 0:48.8 | to a $10 million bounty, revelatory of how the Biden administration State Department |
| 0:54.4 | DOD are thinking about al Qaeda's leadership globally right now. At the turn of the year |
| 1:00.5 | with many or all eyes on Ukraine and the conflict with Russia at the talk of nuclear war or |
| 1:07.4 | all eyes on Beijing and the threat to Taiwan, al Qaeda remains a trans-note national threat |
| 1:15.4 | hence the Bounties. But where? What Bounties? We begin with al Shabaab, which is al Qaeda in Africa, |
| 1:24.4 | a cunning and extremely successful organization over many years in Somalia and Kenya throughout |
| 1:32.4 | East Africa because of its flexibility to change leaders and also to use notable figures |
| 1:39.2 | from the past. Promote them and put them in charge of operations. Bill Rageo, I welcome you |
| 1:47.0 | in the new year and it's a same old story of al Qaeda. They are dangerous. They are transnational. |
| 1:53.2 | Introduce me to the man now with a $10 million bounty, the top Shabaab military commander, |
| 2:00.2 | who is he? What's his reputation? Good evening, Bill. Good evening, John. Happy New York |
| 2:05.2 | to you and your listeners. His name is Malin Iman. He's the military commander of a group |
| 2:12.6 | that's called the basically the Iman Brigade, right? This is a unit that launches attacks |
| 2:19.6 | in both Somalia and Kenya. We believe he's also Shabaab's military leader in Kenya. He |
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