A House of Lords peer has been suspended over reports that he offered a £10m "bounty" for the capture of the US President.Lord Nazir Ahmed's Labour Party suspension comes after claims he was said to have offered the cash for the capture of Barack Obama and White House predecessor George Bush
Pakistan's Express Tribune newspaper said the remarks were made by Lord Ahmed at a reception in Haripur, Pakistan on April 13.
He allegedly made the comments at the function in response to an American reward for the capture of a prominent Pakistani radical.
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who founded the violent extremist group Lashkar e Taiba, is blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed.
A Labour spokeswoman said: "We have suspended Lord Ahmed pending investigation.
"If these comments are accurate we utterly condemn these remarks which are totally unacceptable. Read More
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