US puts $10 million bounty on Pakistan terrorist

Washington Post:
The United States is offering a $10 million bounty for the arrest of of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the group blamed for the2008 attacks in Mumbai. The new reward appears intended to increase pressure on Pakistan to crack down on militant groups, but U.S. officials described the timing as coincidental. 
Saeed, 61, founder of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Taiba(Army of the Pious) and its successor group, has long been designated an international terrorist. Yet he continues to preach jihad with impunity in Pakistan and operates a large campus for religious training in the eastern city of Lahore. 
U.S. and Indian officials allege that Saeed and other militant leaders operate with the tacit permission of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the army’s chief spy agency, but Pakistan denies it. 
Indian government officials and lawmakers immediately welcomed news of the U.S. bounty Tuesday and renewed calls to bring to justice those Pakistani radicals who planned the Mumbai attacks. 
On Monday, the U.S. Rewards for Justice Web site announced it was offering $10 million for Saeed’s arrest — as much at it is offering for fugitive Afghan Taliban leader Mohammad Omar.
Washington is also offering $2 million for the arrest of Saeed’s deputy, Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki. Both men are wanted for planning the gun-and-bomb attacks in Mumbai, in which six Americans were killed. 
Saeed, a virulently anti-India and anti-U.S. cleric, now heads Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which he calls a charitable organization. The United States and the United Nations regard the group as a front and have designated it a terrorist organization.
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Pakistan could detain this guy if they wanted to.  He appears to operate in the open.  I suspect he is one of those guys they found useful in the past for their clandestine war with India.  This bounty suggest that his usefulness may have backfired on Pakistan.  The government must decide whether it will side with the murderous religious bigots or the rest of the world.

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