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| Annan vows to ’carry on’ despite bin Laden threat |
| 2004-05-07 |
Friday, May 7, 2004 Posted: 4:28 PM EDT (2028 GMT) Audiotape offers bounty of gold for U.N., coalition leaders (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday that he is taking the latest threat from Osama bin Laden seriously. An audiotape believed to be from the al Qaeda leader offered a bounty in gold for the deaths of Annan, Iraq envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, U.S. civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer and others. BWAHAHAHAHA! After so much terror appeasement from the UN, it’s sort of nice to see them in the crosshairs for a change. What goes around ... "We’ll have to take precautions and then carry on with my life and my work," Annan said, referring to himself and Brahimi. "That’s what we are going to do," Annan said. Annan has been threatened before by the elusive global terrorist, but a price was never placed on his head. The "prize" is 10 kilograms of gold (about 22 pounds), worth about $125,000. The message denounces U.N. efforts, led by Brahimi, to organize the transfer of power from the coalition provisional authority to an interim Iraqi government June 30, and calls the United Nations "a Zionists’ tool." Don’t all Arab terrorists define anybody who is not sending them direct financial aid as the "Zionists’ tool?" The voice on the 20-minute audiotape, reviewed by CNN, appears to be that of bin Laden. But the speaker’s identity has not been confirmed by intelligence officials. If the message is indeed from bin Laden, it would mark a new tactic for the al Qaeda leader -- offering a financial reward for killing specific officials. The message suggested that the bounties were being offered in response to rewards the United States has offered for wanted figures in Afghanistan and Iraq, including bin Laden. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I guess al Qaeda’s ranks are getting a little thin at the top. Those rewards go up to $25 million. "You know that America promised big rewards for those who kill mujahedeen," the message said. "We in the al Qaeda organization will guarantee, God willing, 10,000 grams of gold to whoever kills the occupier, Bremer, or the American chief commander or his deputy in Iraq." The message calls the handover of power to the Iraqis an "overt trick to anesthetize the people and abort the military resistance." Deterring unrest by installing representative government. What a concept! In response to the tape, a U.N. spokesman said, "We’re taking this seriously. In consultations with [the United States], we are taking additional measures regarding the secretary-general’s security." The message said that those who die while killing coalition soldiers in Iraq, "the great prize will be for us and for him when God grants him martyrdom." I wonder if Annan will ever comprehend the irony of America increasing security for him when he has done so much to undermine America’s national security at home and abroad. Bin Laden was last heard from in April. In that audiotape, the speaker offered a "truce" or "nonaggression" to any European country that stops "attacking Muslims" but excludes the United States from any such deal. Gosh, I feel so left out. And those "truces" work so well too. Just ask Spain. The speaker gave a three-month deadline, starting April 15, for countries to stop "attacking Muslims." He mentioned Iraq but not in the specific context of the U.S.-led war. European politicians immediately ruled out In the April tape, the speaker also threatened revenge on the United States for the death of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was killed March 22 in an Israeli targeted helicopter attack in Gaza City. He also referred to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Madrid train bombings of March 11 as examples of actions al Qaeda had taken in response to what he called attacks on Muslims. As if we needed any more reasons than we already have to snuff bin Laden like a guttering candle. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #6 Money make the world go 'round the world go 'round the world go 'round that klinking klanking sound that makes the world go 'round |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-07 6:24:03 PM |
| #5 HEY!!! Whats up with the gold? Hmm...must be running out of Virgins. Maybe recruiting programs that offer solely intangible incentives which are frequently fatal to boot just aren't drumming up volunteers like they once used to. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-07 6:17:42 PM |
| #4 Imagine getting hit with a 10 Kilo gold bar. Bunch of goldbricks I say. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-05-07 6:15:34 PM |
| #3 They get gold now, virgins later. |
| Posted by: Carlos 2004-05-07 6:12:10 PM |
| #2 HEY!!! Whats up with the gold? Hmm...must be running out of Virgins. |
| Posted by: 98Zulu 2004-05-07 6:05:26 PM |
| #1 Yeah, the United Nations is just "a Zionists’ tool." Those Zionists at the UN do a pretty good job of covering their true motives. Their resolutions condeming Isreal for human rights violations and killing terrorists are just a front. |
| Posted by: Jake 2004-05-07 6:02:05 PM |