THE US government appears to be intensifying its attempts to bring to justice terrorists who have been responsible for death and destruction in East Africa.
Only this week, Washington offered a $10 million bounty for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the attack on US and Kenyan personnel at the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya that left an American soldier and two Department of Defence contractors dead in January 2020
Now, the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) programme has offered another $10 million this time for intelligence on Mahamoud Abdi Aden and those who were involved in the attack on the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi on January 15, 2019.
At least 21 people, including one American citizen, were killed.
A State Department spokesperson said: ‘Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of the al-Qaida terrorist organisation, released live updates throughout the attack and issued a press release in which it stated that the attack was in response to guidance from now deceased al-Qaida leader Ayman Zawahiri.
‘Mohamoud Abdi Aden, aka Mohamud Abdirahman, an al-Shabaab leader, was part of the cell that planned the Dusit2 Hotel attack.’
Last October, the US labelled Aden a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
