(8/24/99)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - An Afghan scholar has offered a reward equal to $113 for the head of President Clinton, an independent Afghan news agency reported Sunday.
The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, an Afghan scholar based in Peshawar near the border with Afghanistan, as saying ``if anyone kills Clinton I will pay a reward of five million afghanis ($113).''
``I think 5 million afghanis is not that big of an amount, but the price of the American president's head for me is not valued more than this,'' Dost was quoted as saying.
``If America sets the price of Osama bin Laden at $5 million, then we can set the price of the American president at five million afghanis,'' he said.
The United States has offered a reward of $5 million for the capture of bin Laden, whom it accuses of being behind the bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa last August which killed more than 200.
It has also been seeking to extradite bin Laden from Afghanistan to have him stand trial in the United States.
Monica Lewinsky attempted to claim the money, but was apparently misreading the use of the word ``head.''
Claims that Dost's prize was funded by majority leader Trent Lott could not be confirmed at press time.
($1 - 44,360 afghanis)