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Pakistani cleric puts a bounty on Danish cartoonists heads

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Alan Gardner February 17, 2006 1 minute 0 comments

A Pakistani cleric is offering 1.5 million rupee (US$16,700) and a car to anyone who kills a Danish cartoonist who drew the now infamous Mohammad cartoons.

Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, announced at the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school that he leads would give a 1.5 million rupee reward and a car for killing the cartoonist of the Prophet pictures that appeared first in a Danish newspaper in September.