<div id="subtitle">Colombia's police chief claims narco fugitive offering bounties for cop killings</div><div><p>Colombia's national police chief says the country's leading drug lord has offered assassins a bounty of $1,000 for each police officer they kill.</p><p>Gen. Oscar Naranjo is leading a manhunt for fugitive drug boss Daniel Rendon, alias "Don Mario."</p><p>Naranjo did not provide any evidence to back the claim that Rendeon was offering a bounty on police officers. He spoke to a local television station Friday at a temporary headquarters he has set up in Medellin.</p><p>The Associated Press could not reach Naranjo or any of his press officers for further comment.</p><p>Before he was slain by police in 1993, assassins hired by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar killed scores of police as part of his terror campaign against extradition.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=41018310&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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