{"id":13544,"date":"2012-10-25T06:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2012-10-25T06:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:09:56","slug":"us-says-al-qaeda-in-iran-offers-no-proof-as-it-recruits-al-qaeda-partners-for-conflicts-in-libya-syria-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13544","title":{"rendered":"US says Al-Qaeda in Iran, offers no proof as it recruits Al-Qaeda partners for conflicts in Libya, Syria, Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. offers $12 million reward for Iran-based Al-Qaeda members<\/strong><br \/>\n18 October, 2012 &#8211; By RFE\/RL<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. State Department is offering up to $12 million in rewards for information on two men it describes as members of an Al-Qaeda network operating in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said on October 18 that they were &#8220;key facilitators&#8221; in sending extremists to Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>It says it will provide $7 million for information on Muhsin al-Fadhli and $5 million for information on Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi al-Harbi.<\/p>\n<p>Also on October 18, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed financial sanctions against Harbi.<\/p>\n<p>The move freezes any U.S. assets held by Harbi and also prohibits U.S. citizens from engaging in transactions with him.<\/p>\n<p>Fadhli is already subject to similar restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government says Iran gives the Al-Qaeda network on its soil &#8220;freedom of operation.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refworld\/docid\/5089074123.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D13544&amp;text=US+says+Al-Qaeda+in+Iran%2C+offers+no+proof+as+it+recruits+Al-Qaeda+partners+for+conflicts+in+Libya%2C+Syria%2C+Iraq&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. offers $12 million reward for Iran-based Al-Qaeda members 18 October, 2012 &#8211; By RFE\/RL WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. State Department is offering up to $12 million in rewards for information on two men it describes as members of an Al-Qaeda network operating in Iran. The State Department said on October 18 that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13544#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2526],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13545,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions\/13545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}