US Offers $10 Million Bounty for Pakistan Militant
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Islamic party Jamaat ud Dawa (JD), speaks during a protest rally in Karachi. (Photo: REUTERS/Athar Hussain)
The US government is now offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a Pakistani man named Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.
He is the founder of a group accused in the attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, about Saeed and why the US is taking this action now.
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