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Made in America: State Dept. offers $3Mln for Daesh leader trained in US

Made in America: State Dept. offers $3Mln for Daesh leader trained in US
The US State Department has offered a $3 million reward for any information leading to the arrest of Gulmurod Khalimov, a former Tajik police commander who is currently one of the main leaders of the Daesh terrorist group.

While the press release labels him as a terrorist, it fails to mention that it was the US who actually trained him. The US Department ofStates Rewards forJustice Program is offering a reward ofup to $3 million forinformation leading tothe location, arrest, and/or conviction ofGulmurod Khalimov (variant Halimov), a key leader ofthe terrorist group ISIL, also known inArabic asDaesh, says the press release posted onthe departments website onTuesday.

The document also says that Khalimov is a former Tajik special operations colonel, police commander, and military sniper. He was the commander ofa police special operations unit inthe Ministry ofInterior ofTajikistan, or OMON, used againstmilitants inthe Central Asian nation. In April 2015 he vanished fromTajikistan butlater resurfaced ina YouTube video saying that he had joined Daesh.

He is now an ISIL member and recruiter. In May 2015, he announced ina 10-minute propaganda video that he fights forISIL and has called publicly forviolent acts againstthe United States, Russia, and Tajikistan, the press release says. The document however does not mention that the person whom it designates asa Specially Designated Global Terrorist had undergone training onUS soil. In the same very video where he is sitting againsta backdrop ofpalm trees, brandishing a gun and surrounded bybearded, armed men, Khalimov reveals that he had spent years atUS military training bases.




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The US-trained leader of s specialist OMON Police Unit, Col. Gulmurod Khalimov, has joined :



8:48 PM - 28 May 2015

In 2003, I went to Baton Rouge in Louisiana, to undergo special training with the US Special Forces, the man says. In 2008, I also underwent special training, again at Baton Rouge, he continues.

From 2003 to 2008, I had special training in America at a Blackwater military base, he further reveals, adding that there they were trained to fight against Muslims and Islam. Back in 2015, RT news channel contacted the US institutions involved in his training for information. The US training organization The Academy, which is the current owner of the facilities where Khalimov was taught, answered that they did everything with the explicit approval of the appropriate US Government department or agency.

The Pentagon then responded that the individual services would track foreign military personnel, who have received training, and advised the channel to contact them. Therefore it remains unclear what kind of extensive training spans 5 consecutive years. According to the US media, the State Department has confirmed this claim. "From 2003-2014 Colonel Khalimov participated in five counterterrorism training courses in the United States and in Tajikistan, through the Department of State's Diplomatic Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program," said spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala.



The program is intended to train candidates from participating countries in the latest counterterrorism tactics, so they can fight the very kind of militants that Khalimov has now joined. A State Department official said Khalimov was trained in crisis response, tactical management of special events, tactical leadership training and related issues. Long before his training in the US, Khalimov also claimed that he underwent training with the Russian Special Forces, back in 1997. Several months after the release of the video, in September 2015 the US Department of State designated Khalimov as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.

By Sputnik News



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