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Pak origin Brit peer suspended for 'offering £10m bounty for capture of Obama, Bush' | A Pakistani-origin British Labour peer has been suspended after allegedly claiming that he would put up a 10million pounds bounty for the capture of US President Barack Obama and his predecessor
President George W Bush. Lord Ahmed, 53, who in 1998 became the first Muslim life
peer, reportedly made the comments at a conference in Haripur in Pakistan . A
Labour Party spokesman condemned the remarks, calling then 'unacceptable'. According
to a report in The Express Tribune, Lord Ahmed offered the bounty in response
to a US announcement of a 10 million dollar reward for the capture of Pakistani
militant leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who it suspects of orchestrating the 2008
Mumbai attacks. "If the US can announce a reward of 10 million dollars for the
(capture) of Hafiz Saeed, I can announce a bounty of 10 million dollars (for the
capture of) President Obama and his predecessor, George Bush," Lord Ahmed reportedly
said. According to The Telegraph, Lord Ahmed reportedly said he would arrange
the bounty at any cost, even if he had to sell his own personal assets including
his house. Lord Ahmed, who was born in Pakistan , became Baron Ahmed of Rotherham
at the age of 40. According to the paper, in 2007 he was highly critical of the
awarding of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, claiming the author had 'blood on
his hands.'
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