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On May 1 2018, ISIS operative Zalibi Mujahujha stole an ambulance, pack with C-4 explosives and drove straight through the emergency room entrance. Within the hour, ISIS claims responsibility and threatened another bombing on the nearby Defense Ministry. This the third such bombing carried out by this terrorist group in the last six months.

It is time to put a stop to these senseless acts of terrorism perpetrated on innocent people. This is the thirty-second deadly attack in Southeast Asia and the eighty-seventh attack in the world since January 2015. This is a worldwide epidemic that must be stopped. There appears to be no end to this violence, no rational reason for these senseless acts of terrorism. In most cases, ISIS kills innocent people and achieves nothing. This seems to be a group that exists merely to destroy lives of innocent people.

George Fitzgerald, Britain's ambassador to the UN since 2002 has drafted a proposal that is being circulated within the Counter-Terrorism Committee. His solution is simple in nature, and has been discussed for decades, with a new twist. The solution dates back to early European law enforcement techniques of rewarding citizens for turning in criminals. Most members of ISIS live within the community. Neighbors, friends, and family know who the terrorists are and where they live, and might be willing to turn them in for the right price. According to the Institute for Economic & Peace (IEP) the cost of terrorist attacks reached $90 billion. The IEP also reported that there were 11,072 that same year. That averages a cost of $8 million for every attack. Imagine how many terrorists would be turned in each year with a reward budget of just over 10% of that amount - $10 billion as an operating budget. While you might need rewards approaching $1 million to turn in a neighbor in the United States, it might only take $10,000 to change a family's life in the Middle-East or a third-world country.

How will these resources be gathered and distributed? The annual budget for the United Nations is $5.4 billion, so you're going to need to go to the Member Nations and the worldwide community to fund the majority of this proposal. It's a small cost to make the world a safe place.

There are 7.6 billion people in this world, it only costs $1.31 a person. Think about that for a minute.

Reported by Mark DelBianco Karachi, Pakistan