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| Angry jihadist puts bounty on Russian journalists after battlefield woes |
| 2020-03-16 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] A well-known jihadist propagandist posted a bounty on his Telegram channel this past weekend, calling for the killing of two Russian field journalists who have extensively covered the Syrian war from the front-lines. Tahir al-’Umar of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else  ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS) posted on his Telegram channel that he would give any hard boy $25,000 (USD) to kill Russian journalists Evgeny Poddubnyy or Oleg Blokhin. Al-’Umar offered $50,000 (USD) if either Russian journalist is killed by a sniper and $100,000 if they kidnap the journalists or a Russian soldier. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 They're Russian. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-03-16 11:46 |
| #1 Isn't any threat against any journalist the sort of thing that gets the usual suspects wetting their pants? What's different this time? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-03-16 02:16 |