Lord Ahmed, a controversial British Muslim peer, has been suspended from the Labor Party amid reports that he offered a $15 million bounty for the capture of Barack Obama and George W Bush

Lord Nazir Ahmed, 53, who in 1998 became the first Muslim life peer, was reported to have made the comments at a conference in Haripur in Pakistan. Lord Ahmed said that he would arrange the bounty at any cost, even if he had to sell his own personal assets including his house. Lord Ahmed, who was born in Pakistan, became Baron Ahmed of Rotherham at the age of 40. In 2007 he was highly critical of the awarding of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, claiming that the author had blood on his hands. In 2009 he was jailed for dangerous driving after sending and receiving text messages minutes before being involved in a fatal motorway crash. The Court of Appeal later suspended his 12-week jail sentence.