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Another Benghazi? Yemen’s Al-Qaeda Offers Over $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Kill U.S. Ambassador

Dec. 30, 2012 3:38pm Erica Ritz

Yemens Al Qaeda Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Kill U.S. Ambassador

U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald M. Feierstein, left, shakes hands with a Yemeni army officer during a visit to Abyan, Yemen, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, or an American soldier in the country.

An audio produced by the group’s media arm, the al-Malahem Foundation, and posted on militant websites Saturday said it offered three kilograms of gold, worth roughly $160,000, for killing the ambassador.

The group also said it will pay 5 million Yemeni riyals ($23,000) to anyone who kills an American soldier inside Yemen.

The offer is purportedly valid for six months.

According to the statement, the bounties were set to “inspire and encourage our Muslim nation for jihad.”

In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 file photo, Yemeni protestors climb the gate of the U.S. Embassy during a protest purportedly about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo: AP)

Washington considers al-Qaida in Yemen to be the group’s most dangerous branch and, particularly after the tragedy in Benghazi, the American Thinker argues that the warning needs to be taken seriously:

As we have learned the hard way, this is no idle threat. Not that al-Qaeda fighters need any more incentive to kill Americans, but the bounty will probably bring foreign mercenaries into the country looking for the reward. In a desperately poor country like Yemen, it may also draw locals into the sweepstakes.

Al-Qaeda overran entire towns and villages in Yemen last year by taking advantage of a security lapse during nationwide protests that eventually ousted the country’s longtime ruler. Backed by the U.S. military experts based at a southern air base, Yemen’s army was able to regain control of the southern region, but al-Qaida militants continue to launch deadly attacks on security forces that have killed hundreds.

Yemen’s government also blames al-Qaida for the killing of several senior military and intelligence officials this year, mainly by gunmen on motorbikes.

Now they have moved Americans up on their list, it seems, and as the American Thinker concludes, “there will be no shortage of assassins to take out our people.”

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Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this report.

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fairmom
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:22pm
Someone please notify the State Dept.

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jessieH
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:14pm
Why not just let Osama Obama do it. The treasonous SOB has experience at it.

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Bobby D
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:30pm
If the POTUS and his 537 minions will just give’m more of the money we do not have they will love us–LMAO

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 9:00pm
  We should have bounties on all radical islamic leaders including scewy louie.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 10:57pm
  What is their price for a worthless potus? I will give them two cents to take him!!
  
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- ron2win
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:46am
  I just don’t understand ,The world hated Bush and was suppose to love us with O .What happened ? The middle east has gone to pot since O’s been in office . I just don’t understand . Perchance D gregory could explain this ,to the folks in general !
  
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bava
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 6:06pm
Death merchant. Fear merchant. Glenn is selling and you people are buying. He thanks you for making him rich. I do listen to his program now and then. He called his book, Agenda 21 “this generations 1984.” What writer compares himself to George Orwell? Only an arrogant, puffed up, self inporatant Richard. Orwell was a socialist, by the way. He didn’t hate socialism, he hated the Soviet Union which he saw as unsocialist. A corruption. And Glenn is his hero as is that other leftest, Orson Welles. How does it feel to be used?

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 6:36pm
  DEMOCRATS WILL JUST FIND ANOTHER YOU TUBE MOVIE MAKER TO THROW IN PRISON
  
  Lets consider the fact that the people who voted for Obama are the real enemies of those who didn’t. How many Americans will Obama get have killed now? Is Obama’s Kill List big enough for all of us?
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 6:41pm
  ALL OF THOSE ELITES WHO PAY OBAMA $10 MILLION FOR AN AMBASSADORSHIP WILL NO LONGER WANT TO BE AN AMBASSADOR.
  
  How are Democrats going to get re-elected now. Isn’t it strange how Democrats consider Americans the enemy but Muslims their heroes.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:10pm
  Places USAID workers have been killed. Kuwait, Jordan & Sudan.
  
  Laurence Michael Foley, Sr. (October 5, 1942—October 28, 2002) was an American diplomat assassinated outside his home in Amman, Jordan.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Foley
  
  “On Jan. 1, 2008, John Michael Granville, an American USAID worker and his Sudanese driver, Abdel Rahman Abbas, were shot at least 17 times
  
  http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/12/jihadist_media_front.php#ixzz2GaEFvv33”
  
  It matter when any U.S. diplomat is killed. It is much worse when an Ambassador is killed.
  And here is little baby BAVA doing his best to mock.
  
  U.S. Embassy Honors Fallen Employees in Sudan
  http://transition.usaid.gov/press/frontlines/fl_feb11/Insider/IN_feb11_Khartoum.html
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:31pm
  Bava, the one to speak on being a “self inporatant Richard”. Sure.
  
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- 700P
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 9:15pm
  Walkabout,
  I’m not aware of Kuwait USAID incident….citation please?
  
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700P
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:25pm
Don’t think of it as a bounty. Think of it as a Jobs and Stimulus package

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- 700P
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 6:44pm
  Probably in a few months, once he figures out he Jumped the Shark o gun control (wag the dog).
  
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:13pm
Knowing that most Countries in our World HATES America and it’s people, just who can stand up and say they are willing to give up their guns “because of those poor beautiful 5 year old children”? Hey! Sorry that school shooting had to happen. But the alarm is ringing and it’s time to wake up and realize that there is an entire World of people that want to see ALL of US dead! Again – I’m sorry for those kids. But in reality, that shooting is one VERY SMALL speck of what is going on across the globe. I’m almost ashamed to say that if a neighbor gives up their gun just because of this one shooting, I will still stand beside to protect them with the guns that I have kept.

Isn’t it funny how the CT shooting “shocked America”, yet these same people see on the news about ENTIRE VILLAGE’S of women and children being murdered, and they “just turn the channel” so they don’t have to see it. Ironic..isn’t it? How’s this one: The same people “calling to disarm” America are the same “Codepink” people who would rather watch reruns of “Everybody Loves Raymond” than to ACTUALLY witness (on BBC) a woman in Iraq being stoned to death because her husband “thinks” she looked at another man. You may think I’m a monster, but I’m not allowing the media to “shame” me in to the potential slaughter of America because of a few children that got shot by a “PROZAC NUT BALL”.
YOU actually witness children being burned alive, and you too will understand that CT was ‘small

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- woodyee
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Knowing that most Countries in our World HATES America and it’s people,
  
  Why, you can’t be serious! Obammy was elected as the messiah – even the media told us just, oh, how much in love the world was with us, now that (according to Newsweak) we are all Socialist now. Wouldn’t the world want to give us all Lewinsky’s now that we’ve re-elected him?
  
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- chicago76
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:42am
  The Newtown shooter was a believer in zombies. He was a believer in the resurrection of zombies. The Great Obamazombie was is idol. He was just following orders.
  
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DisgustedinUSA
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:10pm
RE: U.S. ambassador in Sanaa

Maybe we should give that job to obummer?

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woodyee
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:53pm
Gaybama’s troops are on the march in Yemeni, and our boys are stuck with stand-down orders and rules of engagement that have ended up favoring the enemy on the battlefield.

We need to demand our troops be brought home. When it comes to enemies of our Country, our own
soil is a target-rich environment.

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- SaturdaysWarrior76
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 6:10pm
  Agree 100%!!
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 6:55pm
  THE US GOVERNMENT IS THE GOVERNMENT THAT HAS ORDERED $BILLION IN HOLLOW POINT AMMO TO US AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS
  
  This same government mandates Americans surrender their rifle magazines and turn in all their weapons.
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:50pm
My brothers in Yemen shouldn’t have to pay a nickle for one of my pawns I mean ambassadors. I gave up what’s his name and the other three for nothing in Benghazi. I have an outlaw regime and I’m not leaving power,ever. 99% of the American population don’t even know they have a constitution or bill of rights,let alone what they consist of.They’re more concerned with the NFL,NASCAR or when my hideously large wife tells them what to eat because they don’t have sense enough to know what’s good for them. I digress,oh yes Yemen wanting to kill my pawns,they won’t have to pay 23k to kill a pawn I’m sure I can give a discount to my brothers,after all we’re all working toward the same goal,the end of the west and you Americans are helping us,HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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chips1
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:47pm
Kind of like QVC. No charge for shipping.

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smokeyridgerunner
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:45pm
I’ll give$2.00 to hit any Al Quadi officer.

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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:52pm
  YEMEN—where the USS COLE was attacked. Billy Clinton was prezzy and what did he do?
  Oh MONICA????
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:00pm
  You could become one of the 1% just here in the U.S. They are all over the place.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:29pm
  GEORGIEJO, Yeah, that is about right. Didn’t they do a song about that?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPGMk2IKG7U
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:35pm
  SMOKEYRIDGERUNNER, LOL, that was probably the bounty back in the day.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUROZEmC1WQ
  
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Jedrin
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:37pm
They are paying too much. Holder will do it for way less, $10,000 would be high.

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Blitz
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:36pm
After 4 yrs of obama I can’t believe the whole world doesn’t love the good ol USA. I heard speeches and the MSM reported that things would be better. Something about all people coming together? Maybe obama isn’t the leader we were told, I’ll have to think on this one. OK done the puppet in the WH isn’t a leader, fyi.

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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:46pm
  Glad that someone has caught up to this fact…
  
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blaaaaackwoman
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:29pm
What will $100,000 buy? Back in 2001;

One of those reports was that an ISI agent, Saeed Sheikh, had wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, considered the ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers. That report by itself, if it had become widely known, would have had explosive implications for the prospect of positive relations between Pakistan and the United States after 9/11. But even more potentially explosive was the report that Saeed Sheikh had wired this money at the instruction of none other than ISI chief Mahmoud Ahmad. This “damning link”, as Agence France Presse called it, had explosive implications not only for US-Pakistani relations but also–given the close relations between the CIA and the ISI–for the question of possible CIA involvement in the attacks.

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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Hey obomba get the new youtube video ready for you excuse
  
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:21pm
Imagine Hill has got the drill down by now.

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:18pm
What excuses will the left and the administration make for inaction this time?

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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:27pm
  Nothing has been done, so they don’t need to respond.
  Only bounty posters have been publically announced…
  
  Nothing new here… Bad guys bribing others to find a good guy and collect some gold in exchange.
  
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DadRocked
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:13pm
“Another Benghazi?”

C’mon BLAZE, bounties for American vs “Another Benghazi?”
Do you know more than you’re reporting to us?

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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Blaze…
  When we hear Benghazi, we hear corruption/conspiracy/coverup and Americans being abandoned to die as if silenced by the mob…
  When you write Benghazi, I believe that you are ONLY comparing it to an Ambassadors life line being snuffed out or threatened…
  “Another Benghazi?” – NO BLAZE… just more bounty on American scalps…
  
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- Jedrin
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:39pm
  Perhaps Obama will help them out for his share.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:10pm
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I wonder if our politicians would act different if they had a price on their heads? I mean put America First or else……..

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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:16pm
  They do Monkey… It’s called elections within a republic…
  I know, I know… It’s been a while for me too in seeing results as taught in my civics classes.
  I guess I now am ‘old school’…
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:17pm
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  Elections from now on have no meaning the Free Lunch Slave population is to large to overcome with a vote……….
  
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jd9215
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:07pm
Odummy will do nothing to stop it. Pathetic “leader”.

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- gyro
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:17pm
  love how this posts sums up every other post in 9 words
  
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WaterTheTree
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:07pm
The intent of bounties like this (or the kind we give for the capture of criminals) is to give that last little push to someone who is on the inside and trusted to shift to the other side. If we have a translator or other support person in close contact with our people, we would have done our best to vet them for idiology. The bad guys would do their best to identify them and intimidate them through their families. This bounty might tip the scales for someone who knows that they’d have to go into deep hiding if they turn sides and get an American killed.

It doesn’t create a new danger, but it does increase it.

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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:28pm
  Nicely and accurately stated…
  
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AmericanLass
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:05pm
Media Propaganda, these folks are just Patriots who threaten and kill anyone who is not like them. Tea Party’s are violent radicals who wave flags, love their Country, love the Constitution.

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:01pm
Everyone should know the real meaning of Love, Joy. Hope and Peace and that is sad and a horrible mistake when one does not. God Bless America God I pray that all are protected from evil, amen.

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- NDCORUP
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:12pm
  ” Everyone should know the real meaning of Love, Joy. Hope and Peace and that is sad and a horrible mistake when one does not. God Bless America God I pray that all are protected from evil, amen.”
  
  As we used to say to the Enemy when I was in the Army ——- “SUPPORT PEACE!!!!! or we’ll kill you………..
  
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neverending
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:01pm
Hey no worries – just contact hippo hilley and I bet it could be taken care of in about 24 hours or less.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:58pm
Here we go again, but understand something, Al Qaeda of Yemen made such an offer months ago and have already killed one member of the embassy staff since 9/11/12. Listen to Voice to America radio podcasts and learn…often they are weeks ahead of the MSM on what is going on.

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dadsrootbeer
Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:41pm
Once again showing how correct the socialist in charge is. “Islam is the religion of peace”. With leadership like this our country is in great hands.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:01pm
  @DADSROOTBEER
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:41pm
  Once again showing how correct the socialist in charge is. “Islam is the religion of peace”. With leadership like this our country is in great hands.
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  Yes.
  “Islam is the religion of peace”
  “Al Qaeda is wiped-out and on the run”
  “We’re more respected around the world than ever before”
  etc
  etc
  etc
  
  When are red-blooded liberty-loving Americans going to FINALLY stand up and
  get RID of this narcissistic DISASTER of President?
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:19pm
  BODYBAG nails it
  
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