Taliban: ‘Amnesty’ for minister who set bounty
Posted: September 27, 2012 at 5:03 a.m.
Supporters of Dhaka Bashi, a social-welfare organization, march Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at a protest against the film Innocence of Muslims, which ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
The Pakistani Taliban announced Wednesday that they were giving a Cabinet minister an “amnesty,” taking him off their hit list, because he offered a $100,000 bounty for the killing of an anti-Islam filmmaker.
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