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U.S. offers 3-mln-USD bounty for info about key IS member

Xinhua, August 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

The United States is offering a reward of up to 3 million U.S. dollars for information about Gulmurod Khalimov, a key leader of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS), the State Department said Tuesday.

Khalimov, now an IS member and recruiter, is a former Tajik special operations colonel, police commander, and military sniper. He was also the commander of a police special operations unit in the Ministry of Interior of Tajikistan, according to a statement issued by the State Department.

In May 2015, Khalimov announced in a 10-minute propaganda video that he fights for IS and has called publicly for violent acts against the United States, Russia, and Tajikistan.

Khalimov has been blacklisted as a terrorist by the U.S. and was sanctioned by an anti-terrorism committee of the United Nations Security Council.

The terrorist is also wanted by the government of Tajikistan and the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL. Endit