The US State Division has pledged a $10 million reward for info on a Hezbollah operative convicted by a UN-backed tribunal of murdering Lebanon’s former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, greater than a decade in the past.
The hefty sum for info disclosing “the placement or identification of Salim Jamil Ayyash” or “stopping him from participating in an act of worldwide terrorism in opposition to a US individual or US property” was supplied as a part of Washington’s Rewards for Justice program.
The State Division on Monday described Ayyash as a senior operative within the so-called Unit 121, an assassination squad allegedly assembled as a part of Hezbollah, which the US has designated a terrorist group. The 57-year-old was “identified to have been concerned in efforts to hurt US army personnel,” the division added.
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In December, the UN-backed Particular Tribunal for Lebanon handed Ayyash 5 life sentences in absentia for his position within the assassination of Hariri in 2005.
The tribunal dominated that Ayyash was answerable for the group that masterminded the suicide truck bombing in Beirut that killed the politician and 21 different folks, and injured greater than 200.
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Ayyash has been in hiding all these years, with Hezbollah refusing at hand him and different members of the unit over to the worldwide physique to serve his sentence.
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