Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Jehad Serwan Mostafa, also known as Ahmed Gurey, Anwar al-Amriki, and Emir Anwa. Mostafa is a U.S. citizen and former resident of California, who has held leadership positions with al-Shabaab, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. He is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. citizen fighting overseas with a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n
Mostafa lived and graduated from college in San Diego, California, before moving to Somalia in 2005. It is believed he participated in attacks against Ethiopian forces before joining al-Shabaab in approximately 2008. With al-Shabaab, Mostafa has functioned in many critical capacities, including serving as a military instructor at the group’s training camps, leading foreign fighters, operating in the group\u2019s media wing, acting as an intermediary between al-Shabaab and other terrorist organizations, and leading the group\u2019s use of explosives in terrorist attacks. Mostafa is believed to continue to play a critical role in planning operations directed against the Somali government and internationally-supported African Union forces in Somalia and East Africa.\u00a0As a result, Mostafa continues to pose a direct threat to U.S. forces, civilians, and interests.<\/p>\n\n
On October 9, 2009, Mostafa was indicted in the Southern District of California on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, conspiring to provide material support to al-Shabaab, and providing material support to al-Shabaab. On December 2, 2019, a superseding indictment unsealed in U.S. federal court charged Mostafa with terrorism-related offenses. Mostafa is on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted Terrorists List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":124595,"menu_order":0,"template":"","hostages-kidnapping":[],"gender":[4520],"crime-category":[3434],"location-country":[4909,4681,4542,4605],"region":[3019,3017,3014],"election-interference":[],"organization":[2997],"dprk":[],"cyber":[],"featured-terrorist":[],"class_list":["post-158406","rewards","type-rewards","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gender-male-bur","crime-category-3434","location-country-ethiopia-bur","location-country-kenya-bur","location-country-somalia-bur","location-country-yemen-bur","region-3019","region-3017","region-3014","organization--al-shabaab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rewards\/158406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rewards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rewards"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"hostages-kidnapping","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hostages-kidnapping?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"crime-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/crime-category?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"location-country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location-country?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"election-interference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election-interference?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"dprk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dprk?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"cyber","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cyber?post=158406"},{"taxonomy":"featured-terrorist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured-terrorist?post=158406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}