The Islamists sat up all night in their dark holes again and word-processed a new set of Koran-based threats and warnings on their Windows laptops, including for the first time (who says they can’t innovate?) bounties on the heads of Paul Bremer, Kofi Annan, UN envoy Lakhdar “Israel is the Big Poison” Brahimi, and other infidels: Bin Laden Said to Offer Gold for Killings.

“You know that America promised big rewards for those who kill mujahedeen (holy warriors),” the transcript read. “We in al-Qaida organization will guarantee, God willing, 10,000 grams of gold to whoever kills the occupier Bremer, or the American chief commander or his deputy in Iraq.”

It was referring to L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, and top military officials.

“For security reasons, the rewards will be given as soon as conditions permit, God willing,” the transcript read. “As for those who die while killing an occupying solider, the great prize will be for us and for him when God grants him martyrdom, and the smaller prize (the gold) will be for his family.”

The statement also promised the same reward for the deaths of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi.

“The United Nations is nothing but a Zionists’ tool, even if it worked under the cover of providing humanitarian aid,” the statement said. “… Whoever kills Kofi Annan or the head of his commission in Iraq or a representative like Lakhdar Brahimi, he will be awarded the same prize of 10,000 grams of gold.”

The statement promised a lesser prize — 1,000 grams of gold — to anyone killing a citizen of countries it called “the masters of the veto like Americans and Britons” — a reference to nations with veto power on the U.N. Security Council.

And it offered 500 grams of gold to anyone killing citizens of countries it called “slaves of the Security Council who are in Iraq, like Japan and Italy.”

With gold selling Thursday on London exchanges for $387.60 an ounce, 10,000 grams of gold was valued at $135,660, 1,000 grams at $13,566, and 500 grams at $6,783.

The statement appeared on two Web sites, the Ansar Islam Forum and the Islamic Research Center. Both are clearing-houses for statements by al-Qaida and other Islamic militant groups.