Bin Laden Offers Gold for Killing Bremer, Annan
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A purported statement by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) offered rewards in gold for killing U.S Iraq (news - web sites) administrator Paul Bremer or U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), an Islamist Web site said on Thursday.
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The statement posted on the Web site said the 22 lb gold reward would also be given to anyone who kills other officials including Bremer's deputy or U.N. envoy to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi.
"We in al Qaeda organization are committed to a prize of 10,000 grams of gold to whoever kills Bremer, his deputy, the commander of American forces or his deputy in Iraq," it said.
It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the statement, which the Web site said was the text of an audio recording by bin Laden.
The recording could not be immediately downloaded.
At current prices, the reward in gold would be worth around $125,000.
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