Washington ( CNN ) -- As thousands of American service members prepare to depart Iraq as part of an agreement to leave by the end of this year , the U.S. State Department has issued a $ 10 million bounty for a man there it recently designated an international terrorist leader . Ibrahim `` Awwad Ibrahim '' Ali al-Badri , also known by the alias `` Abu Du ' a , '' was put on the agency 's global terrorist list earlier this week and is the senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq , the State Department said . According to a State Department bulletin , Abu Du ' a is in charge of overseeing all AQI operations , such as the August attack on Baghdad 's Umm al-Qura mosque , and is based in Iraq . He has also threatened `` violent retaliation '' for the death of Osama bin Laden , who was killed in May after a decade-long manhunt ended with a U.S. raid on the former al Qaeda leader 's compound in Pakistan . Three days after bin Laden 's death , Abu Du ' a claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others , according to the bulletin . His group has also claimed responsibility for series of August attacks that began in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and left more than 70 people dead . The terrorist designation is part of a U.S. effort to restrict resources available to Abu Du ' a , while also freezing his assets in the United States , the State Department said . The United States designated al Qaeda in Iraq as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2004 .
`` Abu Du ' a '' was put on a global terrorist list earlier this week . The US State Department said the move would be reviewed by President Barack Obama and that it had been made in response to new information about al-Baghdadi's ties with al Qaeda. Abu Du ' a has threatened `` violent retaliation '' for the death of Osama bin Laden , U.S. says .