Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/NAIROBI: The United States of America announced on Thursday a $10 million head bounty for the man it described as the “terror mastermind” of a bloody hotel attack in Kenya four years ago.
US stance on the Al-Qaeda groups
According to the AFP, the US aid that it is seeking information on Mohamoud Abdi Aden, a leader of the Somalia-based Al-Shabab jihadist group, whicht had carried out many deadly attacks in Kenya.
Al-Qaeda affiliated groups claimed responsibility for the January 15, 2019 siege of the upscale DusitD2 hotel compound in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that lasted almost 20 hours.
At least 21 people, including US citizens, were killed and many others injured. Kenya said at the time that all assailants had been eliminated.
“Mohamoud Abdi Aden, the Al-Shabab leader, was part of the cell that planned the DusitD2 hotel attack,” the US ambassador to Kenya, Meg Whitman, told reporters in Nairobi.
She said that the US was offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Aden, described by the embassy as a Kenyan national, and others accused of involvement in the hotel siege.
