The United States has offered a bounty worth 12 million dollars for getting information on the location of two Iran-based alleged financiers of the Al Qaeda terror network.
According to the US, Muhsin al Fadhli and Adel Radi Saqr al Wahabi al Harbi are key personnel controlling the movement of
militants and money in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Al Qaeda elements in Iran, led by Fadhli, are working to move fighters and money through Turkey to support al Qaeda-affiliated elements in Syria," Sky News quoted the US State Department, as saying in a statement.
"Fadhli also is leveraging his extensive network of Kuwaiti jihadist donors to send money to Syria via Turkey," it added.
According to the report, Fadhli had effectively become the leader of Al Qaeda in Iran after a 10 million dollar bounty offered for information about the Syrian Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, better known as Yasin al Suri, prompted local authorities to take him into protective custody.
The 31-year-old, who is on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list after a series of al Qaeda attacks in the Gulf kingdom, was allegedly also among the few leaders of the group who were given advance notice of the 9/11 attacks, the report said.
Meanwhile, Harbi, 25, has been charged in Saudi Arabia with travelling to Afghanistan to join Al Qaeda and providing internet support to the group, and "is considered an extremely dangerous field operative; he has fought in the Afghanistan and Pakistan theatre," US intelligence sources said.
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