Taliban offers reward for killing of cartoonist

[ECH1969]

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.

The agency quoted Dadullah as saying the Taliban's list of would-be suicide bombers had grown since the publication of the cartoons. Eleven demonstrators have been killed since Friday in violent protests over the cartoons in Afghanistan.

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

[Zenlitened]

1. Does the arabic language not have a word for "irony"?

:shrug:

[Cobalt Violet]

2. How peaceful!

I'm amazed.

[gizmo1979]

3. I don't think they'd

pay.I think they'd stiff the guy.Who's he going to complain to?

[High Plains]

4. Yeah, but where do you have to go to collect?

It's a long way from anywhere to Waziristan.

[fishnfla]

5. Just how does a suicide bomber collect this reward?

??

[1620rock]

6. Another example of the religiously insane. n/t

[AnneD]

18. they'll

collect it in paradise, my friend. It will be next to the virgins...

[Mnemosyne]

7. Salman Rushdie is still alive. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

8. No no no, damn "media"!

"The Taleban are no more."

[daleo]

9. That comes to about 2 million bucks

Assuming 500 dollars per ounce, and 16 ounces per pound. I am not sure what kind of ounce gold is measured in, though. I think it would be about 10 liter sized blocks of gold (a liter block would be a bit smaller than a quart of milk).

[genie_weenie]

15. That's a 220lb man worth of gold

can anyone be "dense" enough to believe they'll get paid by the Hey Mr. Tailban, Tally me a banana...

[Ganja Ninja]

17. It's a tempting offer.

But how would you prove you killed him and who would you contact to collect?:smoke:

[wordpix2]

10. I thought the Taliban was no longer a threat, according to *

[Deja Q]

11. Oh. Good. Here comes the "'they' don't support freedom of speech" talk.

Irony indeed.

[Rex]

12. Does that reward apply to fellow clerical leaders of Islam.

Wow, look at that...they have a propaganda machine too! Wonder what lame shit Bush will comeback with. That shitty line about a shoe bomber in 2002 will fool no one. Try again doofus.

[dusmcj]

13. where'd those baboons get 100 kilos of gold ? nt

[Richard Steele]

16. Heroin.

Opium poppies are now Afghanistan's largest cash crop (again)
since we "got rid of" the Taliban...

[dusmcj]

20. excellent. I salute your quickness. nt

[SillyGoose]

14. I thought we got rid of the Taliban?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Megahurtz]

19. Psycho Killers!

:sarcasm: