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Global War on Terror
May 06, 2004
Al Qaeda's Bounty List

From The Australian :

Bounties are being offered for killing any citizen of the following nations:

USA, China, Russia, France, UK : 1 Kilo of Gold

Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Thailand, the Philippines, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Ukraine : 500 grams of Gold

Specific bounties are being offered for individuals:
Paul Bremer or Kofi Annan : 10 Kilos of Gold

Contestants should carefully examine the Terms and Conditions of this once-in-a-lifetime-offer though:
"For security reasons, the rewards will be given as soon as conditions permit, God willing," the transcript read. "As for those who die while killing an occupying soldier, the great prize will be for us and for him when God grants him martyrdom, and the smaller prize (the gold) will be for his family."
Not stated are the rules for people with dual citizenship like me - do I count as 500g for Australian, 1000g for British, 1500g for both, or 750g for the average?

Posted by Alan Brain at May 6, 2004 10:02 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I guess, if Al Qaeda is offering rewards for your death, then you must be doing something right. This offer makes me proud to be an American. Congratulations all round to the citizens of all the countries on the list. I suppose that citizens of Israel are included in a previous offer. At least the details of the offer, as reported in "The Australian," leave no doubt about Al Qaeda's less than benevolent attitude toward "Zionists."

Posted by: Average Joe at May 6, 2004 11:48 PM

AB - being just an average joe you're probably only worth 750gms but on a good day ...

Posted by: rola at May 7, 2004 01:01 AM

Average Joe - No, Jews they kill for fun, not money. :-(

Posted by: Alan E Brain at May 7, 2004 02:30 AM

What if i kill myself. Who gets the prize

Posted by: Joe at May 7, 2004 06:31 AM

Its strange how come they offer so less for the others than for the americans. Anyway...they should ofer some hundreds of kilos of gold for the israelis too.I noticed that they are not on the list.There must be a "mistake"

Posted by: Belo at May 7, 2004 07:26 AM

Its not wery nice americans to walk around world and playing gods, and my country spending my money after that for sending couple of solders there where americans left shity thinks.

Posted by: Sokol at May 7, 2004 07:50 AM

Just send one preadressed, stamped envelope to
Osama Bin Ladin
1 hole
Nowhere Pakistan 23555-23522

or for a more prompt reward contact
SAC 1st Bomber Group
or
81st Airborne

Posted by: Brian at May 7, 2004 08:16 AM

I`m worth only 500gr? Macedonians are priceless.

Posted by: Sinbad at May 7, 2004 09:46 AM

-Sokol, for the love of whatever god or goat you worship please use a English spellchecker and if possible a fluent English speaking proof reader. Its not so bad that you come upon the threads to fling petty insults at my fellow Americans from your apple IIe in your thatch hut, but that you make us strain to decipher your speech is simply rude.

Here allow me to help you this once:

"It is very rude for the Americans to walk around the world playing gods, and my country is spending my money and sending our only two soldiers into Iraq! A place even the American left thinks is shitty."

Posted by: Ronin at May 7, 2004 09:49 AM

Osama sure knows how to make friends! I'm sure the citizens of these countries would be glad to kill him for nothing at all. It is long past time that we wasted this guy and 100 of his closest friends.

Posted by: popd at May 7, 2004 10:49 AM

Thanks Ronin. I was having a hard time working out that last bit.

One thing this tells us is that we're doing a good job of monitoring and/or cutting off AQ's cash flow. Now they're half way back to a bartering economy. Next year they'll be offering furs, shiny trinkets, and slightly used virgins.

One wonders how one goes about collecting such a bounty, or converting it to cash without explaining where it came from. Is it like the martredom reward, and you only get the gold after you get to heaven?

Posted by: Warmonger at May 7, 2004 10:50 AM

Where is Spain? Does this mean they are worthless. Did they get what they wanted? Not exactly.

Spain is on a hit list for Islamist beyond even the hatred for the US - remember the Inquisition, they do. This historical event went well beyond the Crusades.

Despite the price list, they will be hit again before anyone else. They have proved themselves an easy target, and have capitulated - a US mistake on several occasions. Terrorist blow up what they can.

Posted by: Agrippa at May 7, 2004 10:58 AM

Actually that is "our only ten soldiers"
And it’s probably a sheep not a goat, and most likely the same one that you do.
And at the end, it is nice to know that you are worth something even if it is only 500g of gold,
On the other hand they only need 1000T of gold for all of us.
That is so cheap.

Posted by: Paun at May 7, 2004 10:58 AM

Thanks Ronin!
Very kind of you to help us all! Though, I believe Sokol meant: "where americans left shitty things", as in the Slav languages there is the phonetic rule of consonant devoicing.

Posted by: maja at May 7, 2004 11:35 AM

That's only around $200,000 (using $500/oz as price of gold) for Kofi or Bremer. It must be a real offer considering how low it is.

Posted by: Jim Bosso at May 7, 2004 11:59 AM

Agrippa:

I think Spain gets thrown a bone for pussying out on Iraq.

And what's with the omission of Israel? Boy, that's quite a typo. Whoever wrote the press release is in big trouble! :)

Posted by: Joe Grossberg at May 7, 2004 11:59 AM

WOW 500 grams for a head, well I will do any al qaeda or similar for free. I feel good.

Posted by: M.T at May 7, 2004 05:14 PM

How mutch for a taliban man ???

Posted by: Piter at May 7, 2004 08:41 PM

Well, the fact that Americans are worth 1000 g and Macedonians only 500g only proves the fact that Osama does not know shit about supply and demand and its effect on price fixing!

Posted by: Foo at May 7, 2004 10:40 PM



The French and the Russians have to be disappointed. I'm sure they thought they had some credit.

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed at May 7, 2004 11:11 PM

1000g for guy who forgot to add Israel to list. He also gets to root only 20 houris instead of 72

Posted by: Fink at May 8, 2004 07:41 AM

replace the gold with cocaine or heroin it will be more efective.

Posted by: univerzum at May 8, 2004 08:09 AM

Macedonians worth more than this shitty offer here ... [ http://makedonija.cjb.net ] Sorry Sir Azzhole Bin Laden

Posted by: Foo Fighter at May 8, 2004 07:56 PM

OK 500gr just try to kill a macedonian you will spend much more!hehheh
macedonian is worth at least 3 maybe 4 of his men
stupid non-shaved monk!:)))

Posted by: NIKOLA at May 8, 2004 11:50 PM

At first I thought it was a wonder that France is in the first tier. Then I remembered the headscarf thing. France isn't submitting to Sharia fast enough - proof that collaborating doesn't buy you much.

Posted by: Joshua Scholar at May 9, 2004 05:09 AM

hey you guys.<ungrammatic badly-spelt sentence><obscenity>

Posted by: rerer at May 9, 2004 11:16 AM

I love Macedonia!..Great county...who cares about Osma?

Posted by: ruth at May 9, 2004 01:13 PM

The reason those assholes are worth 1kilo is that their country is a permanent member of the security council of the UN. If you ask me americans should be worth 500g and all the rest 1k because the fuckers are everywhere you can't miss them, just go to Iraq and start shooting, a strey bullet is bound to hit one.
Macedonians on the other hand may be fewer but have a larger sucses rat on their missions than americans and still havent lost a single solgdier and they have been there for allmost a year.
One more thing. If anybody has a problem with my spelling contact Cambridge University or the Brittish Council in Macedonia because they have handed ma a proficiency diploma in English and I'm currently a student of an English university.

Posted by: Dimitri at May 9, 2004 03:29 PM

[intercourse] off osama and all from al queda.he can eat [scatological expletive] and other stuff Macedonia is great country so [INTERCOURSE] YA ALLLLLLLL who thinks bad for MACEDONIA and MACEDONIANS becouse we are the best people on the face of the planet earth!!!!!!!so [intercourse] Bush,Osama,Kofi Annan,Paul Bremer,and all the polititians and let people live in peace who cares about your reasons and politics.and for the end all of you are assholes

Posted by: slusalka at May 9, 2004 03:57 PM

I AM GIVING 0.1g GOLD FOR: BUSH, OSAMA, BLER, ANNAN, BREMER, OSTRENI, SHAKIRI, AHMETI. MAYBE IS TOO MUCH FOR THAM. BUT I WILL OPEN MY HARD I WILL GIVE THAM SUM OF GOLD. LONG LIVE MACEDONIA AND MACEDONIANS. [INTERCOURSE] ALL TERRORIST AS BUSH BLER OSAMA OSTRENI SHAKIRI AHMETI.
SPECIAL HONOUR TO MACEDONIAN'S LIONS, WHO DEFEND MACEDONIA FROM THE TERRORIST.

Posted by: Aps12 at May 10, 2004 03:26 PM

Dimitri, I wonder what kind of jerks must have been the guys from the "Cambridge University or the Brittish Council in Macedonia" if you can't even spell British :)

Anyway, here are the spelling mistakes in this message only:

brittish = British
americans = Americans
strey = stray
sucses = success
havent = haven’t
solgdier = soldier
allmost = almost

Write them down, you just might need them at the "English University"!

Posted by: ip at May 10, 2004 09:06 PM

Aren't these Macedonians fun! I'd hate to see them drunk though.

Posted by: Jim Bosso at May 11, 2004 12:16 AM

Hey ! Were you Macedonians drunk at a friend's place and then got on the internet and left comments here?

Posted by: Jim Bosso at May 11, 2004 12:18 AM

[INTERCOURSE] ALL ASSHOLES who think bad for MACEDONIA, especialy GREEKS & OSAMA BIN LADEN, by the way LADEN means COLD in macedonian

Posted by: djfxg at May 11, 2004 03:26 AM

J give a pair of my favorit socks only 17 days old in NIKE for Batler left eye. K E SH!!

Posted by: ME_MYSELF_&_J at May 11, 2004 08:23 AM

J also give 7 half-smoked cigarets MT for Bush's 50% family company.P.S. Cigarest are in luxsury box

Posted by: ME_MYSELF_&_J at May 11, 2004 08:29 AM

A quick look-up of the IP addresses of some of the 'Macedonian' posters shows that they do, indeed, originate in the .mk domain.

Alexander the Great was Macedonian. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Before I criticise the semi-literate English, I'd better improve my Greek, my Bulgarian, and especially my Macedonian. All of which the posters probably speak fluently.

May I make a request though to all Macedonian readers. Why not post something about Macedonia which is even slightly relevant, such as the disbandment of the Lions, and what the Lions are (Secret Police, Special Forces defending Macedonians, or just another Balkan Political Private Army - your call). What is it about Macedonia that makes them have large predators as names for Macedonian elite(?) units, such as the Lions, Tigers, Wolves etc? What, if any, links exist between various Albanian groups and Bin Laden? Even a potted history of Macedonia, starting with, oh, 1453. All far more interesting than exactly what you'd give for Bush's left earlobe, or declarations of how wonderful, brave, wise, noble, heroic, knowledgeable, pure, and especially modest people are the Macedonians, regardless of how true those statements may be.

And please pick a (faked) name and (faked) e-mail address and stick to it, otherwise it gets too difficult trying to track who actually said what by the IP address. Thanks.

Posted by: Alan E Brain at May 11, 2004 10:12 AM

CITAJTE SEGA VAMU PROBISVETI I EBANI GAZOVI MAKEDONIJA NA MAKEDONCITE!!!!!!! I NISTO DRUGO NE E VAZNO COMPRENDE ???
HEHE WE ARE FUN ONLY FOR THE STUPID PEOPLE BUT.......
FROM NOW ON I WILL WRITE ON MY MOTHER LANGUAGE AND YOU STUPID AND SIMPLE MINDED "FRIENDS" TRY TO LEARN IT LIKE WE LEARNED YOUR PAGAN DIRTY TALKING ENGLISH!!
A ENGLISHMAN WAS IN MY TOWN AND EVERY TIME WHEN I SHOW HIM A SCLUPTURE OR A STORY ABOUT SOMETHING HE SAYS:
OHH REALY??
THIS IS THE MONUMENT OF MY TOWN
OHH REALY???
HEHEHEHE BYE BYE MY "FRIENDS"

Posted by: NIKOLA-TaUrUs` at May 11, 2004 10:05 PM

Alan E Brain wrote:
I’d better improve my Greek, my Bulgarian, and especially my Macedonian. All of which the posters probably speak fluently.

Well... I'd agree with Bulgarian to some point (most of us can understand Bulgarian, but when it comes to speaking and writing... it's not so bright; but Bulgarians also understand Macedonian, so we can understand each other in a conversation - it's not a problem) , but (unfortunately) Greek is not a strong side for most of the Macedonians. And it's not a Slavic language, as are Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-croatian.
But, you missed to mention Serbian (and Croatian). I'd say that 99% of the Macedonian population speaks Serbian fluently.

Posted by: ip at May 18, 2004 09:32 PM

uff zosto tolku se nervirate be, kakvi gluposti, nek si ebaat majkata ovoj bin laden, nie bez pari ubijame albanci,:)

and for all the haters of macedonia, please stop talking crap, cuz you all know it is propaganda.

makedonija za makedoncite!!!!!!!!

Posted by: makedon at May 31, 2004 05:05 PM

me boli i za bin laden i za amerikanci i za makedonci i za siptari i za englezi i za sve picke materine! glejte si kjefot be lugje, nema da ziveete poise od eden zivot

Posted by: cece at June 29, 2004 04:40 AM

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

BE FRIENDLY, WHY ARE YOU SO NEGATIVE
OSAMA, BUSH JUNIOR, FIDEL CASTRO, LJUBE BOSKOVSKI, THEY ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF JESUS
LET THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

PS I OFFER 500 GRAMS OF GOLD FOR 2 GRAMS OF COLUMBIA GOLDEN PARADISE

Posted by: JODA SAMABILADENO at June 29, 2004 10:55 AM

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