Taliban offers reward for killing of cartoonist - suicide recruits up

[The Straight Story]

Taliban offers reward for killing of cartoonist
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-02-09 15:30

A top Taliban commander offered a reward of 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who kills the person responsible for "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.

If someone killed the cartoonist responsible for the cartoons in Denmark, the "Taliban will give 100 kilograms (244 pounds) of gold," Mullah Dadullah said in a telephone call to AIP from an unknown location, the Pakistan-based private news agency reported on Wednesday.

Dadullah also said the Taliban would give five kilograms of gold to anyone who killed a Danish, Norwegian or German soldier, AIP said.

AIP said Dadullah was operating as chief commander of the Taliban waging an anti-government insurgency in Afghanistan.

The agency quoted Dadullah as saying the Taliban's list of would-be suicide bombers had grown since the publication of the cartoons.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-02/09/content_518676.htm

[GrumpyGreg]

1. Nice,huh? (sarcasm intended)

[FormerRepublican]

2. And the insanity continues.

The only thing I've seen this stupid is the post on Christians trying to bring about the end times.

Please. I only hope these whacks fail to drum up any interest from a hit man.

[The Straight Story]

3. Hey, your subject heading would make a good song title about *

Just saying :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. BushCo -love- chaos and human suffering.

I wonder if anyone got paid by them to poke this particular hornet's nest...

[madmark]

5. is mullah omar on sabbatical?