Jihadist Urges Murder of US Talk Show Host David Letterman: Report

Jihadist Urges Murder of US Talk Show Host David Letterman: Report

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Los Angeles. A jihadist has called on Muslims to murder David Letterman, saying the United States talk show host deserved to have his tongue cut out after he joked about an Al Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan, a US monitoring group said.

SITE Monitoring Service said the death threat was posted on Tuesday on a Web site used by militants, after the jihadist became enraged seeing Letterman make a joke about militant Ilyas Kashmiri who is believed to have been killed in an airstrike in Pakistan in early June.

According to a translation by SITE released Wednesday, the writer to the web forum asked Muslims in America: “Is there not amongst you a Sayyid Nosair al-Masri to cut the