Saturday, 8. May 2004

Bin Laden offers gold for killing of Bremer


An audio recording attributed to the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, today offered gold to anyone who killed the US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, or the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan.

The 20-minute message, the authenticity of which has not been verified, appeared on two websites that have in the past carried messages from militant Islamists.

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