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India-Pakistan
Rs 1.5 million for killing cartoonists
2006-02-27
KHAR: Clerics announced a Rs 1.5 million reward for the murder of the cartoonist who drew caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) at a rally organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Anjuman-e-Tajaran trade union of Bajaur Agency here on Sunday. Hundreds of tribesmen carrying banners and placards denouncing Denmark, the United States and the European newspapers that published the cartoons took part in the rally. Trade union and JI leaders addressed the rally and denounced the cartoons as a "terrorist act" and demanded the government cut ties with the countries where the cartoons were published. They also condemned the bombing in Bajaur Agency by US drones and demanded the US compensate the families of the innocent people killed in the attack.
Posted by:Fred

#8  The Immigrant Song is so depressing. It has such a great start and such a wimpy ending. Makes you wish that somebody would do an extended version, pursuing the Viking angle, maybe with some gratuitous references to some of the Aesirs.

The Asatru would love it. Especially if it didn't have any annoying white supremacist or neo-Nazi associations in it.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-02-27 16:27  

#7  A contract on the clerics? I know just who should handle it!
Posted by: Darrell   2006-02-27 15:42  

#6  Denmark is regarded as a major hub of the international mercenary business.
Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun,
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done.

The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day,
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray....
Posted by: Steve   2006-02-27 15:35  

#5  A Euro friend advised me that Danes are not much into such action themselves; however, that being said, Denmark is regarded as a major hub of the international mercenary business. It would be easy and relatively inexpensive for them to put out an almost irresistable "counter-contract" on some of these birds.

Heck, the mercenaries might sub-contract it themselves to some local talent, and spend their time in the local Holiday Inn sipping tea or something in the hotel bar, waiting for the news item on the telly.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-02-27 14:56  

#4  Even one cartoonist being injured or killed should result in every single mosque in Khar being demolished, preferrably during peak capacity prayers. Enough of this sh!t.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-02-27 11:52  

#3  You know, it seems to me to be a logical outgrowth of foreign policy that putting a bounty on a nation's citizen demands of that nation a violent retribution. It almost *has* to be done for that nation to keep its legitimacy, because on a small scale it is tantamount to a declaration of war.

Imagine the effect it would have on such ragheads on future "death fatwas", if several of these individuals offering such bounties were sanctioned by Danish intelligence operatives?

Nothing too grotesque, mind you, just death. But to send a message that those who live by the sword die by the sword.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-02-27 10:42  

#2  $25,000
Posted by: Cleating Flaviter9413   2006-02-27 06:45  

#1  How much is it in $
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-02-27 02:10  

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