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Sat 09 Sep 2007Al-Qaeda puts price on cartoonistThe head of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq offered $100,000 (€72,000) for the killing of the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad.He also threatened to attack major Swedish companies if Sweden did not apologise over the cartoons.