$5Million Bounty on 26/11 Terrorists, Pompeo Asks Pakistan to Act

New York: Announcing a new $5-million bounty on the terrorists involved in the “barbaric” 2008 attack on Mumbai, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has demanded that Pakistan must act against the Lakshar-e-Taiba (LeT). “It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement,” he said on Sunday. The 10 terrorists who came from Pakistan by the Arabian Sea killed 166 people — including Indian security personnel and 26 foreign nationals — and left another 300 injured during a three-day rampage.

Pompeo said, “The US is committed to seeing that those responsible for this attack face justice. The Department of State Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Programme is offering a new reward for up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any individual who was involved in planning or facilitating the 2008 Mumbai attack. This is the third RFJ bounty from the State Department on terrorists involved in the Mumbai attack. Before the Mumbai attack, the US had designated the LeT as a terrorist organization in 2001 and imposed sanctions on it and the UN Security Council followed suit in 2005. The RFJ website, which said the “reward offer extends to any individual who bears responsibility for this act of terror”, mentioned four persons, who, it said, have been indicted by a US federal court.(IANS)