A Taliban commander in Afghanistan carrying his own wanted poster turned himself in to Afghan troops to claim the $100 U.S. bounty.

“We asked him, ‘Is this you?’ Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, ‘Yes, yes, that’s me! Can I get my award now?’” U.S. Army Specialist Matthew Baker was quoted as saying by the Washington Post.

Ashan’s Wanted poster went up around the southeastern Afghan province of Paktika after he was believed responsible for organizing IED (improvised explosive device) attacks on U.S. and Afghan troops.

He brought a copy of the poster with him when he walked up to a police checkpoint in the Sar Howza district and demanded the $100 reward for his arrest.

U.S. troops used a biometric scan to confirm that the man in Afghan custody was the Ashan on the poster, the Washington Post said.

“This guy is the Taliban equivalent of the ‘Home Alone’ burglars,” one U.S. official told the Post.

The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul described Ashan is a mid- to low-level Taliban commander in Paktika.

Officials and soldiers interviewed by the Post and the BBC were baffled about why Ashan surrendered to collect the reward money.

Although wanted posters are widely used by NATO in Afghanistan, they hadn’t previously produced many results.

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