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Pakistani-British MP suspended for offering reward for
'Obama's capture'
Monday April 16, 2012 08:10:25 PM,
IANS
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London:
A Pakistani-origin member of the House of Lords was suspended from
the Labour party after it was reported he had offered a reward of
10 million pounds for the capture of US President Barack Obama.
Nazir Ahmed -- the Lord Ahmed of Rotherham -- reportedly made the
offer after the US announced a $10 million bounty for
Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, who was blamed
for orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
Ahmed described the bounty on Saeed as an "insult to all Muslims",
the Daily Mail reported.
Ahmed reportedly said Obama had "challenged the dignity of the
Muslim community" and said his reward also applied to Obama's
predecessor, George W. Bush.
A Pakistani daily said Ahmed made the remarks in Haripur,
Pakistan, last week.
"We have suspended Lord Ahmed pending investigation. If these
comments are accurate, we utterly condemn these remarks which are
totally unacceptable," a Labour spokesman said.
Ahmed denied offering a bounty, but said he told the meeting that
Bush and former British prime minister Tony Blair should be
prosecuted for war crimes.
He said from Pakistan that no one from the Labour party had
contacted him before announcing the suspension.
"They have suspended me? That's a surprise to me. I did not know,"
he told the Daily Mail.
Asked about the comments, he said: "I never said those words. I
did not offer a bounty. I said that there have been war crimes
committed in Iraq and Afghanistan and those people who have got
strong allegations against them - George W. Bush and Tony Blair -
have been involved in illegal wars and should be brought to
justice."
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