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BY STEVEN HSIEH

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David Letterman is the latest target of an online terror threat.  

The late night funnyman joked about the death Osama bin Laden’s – and one jihadist wasn’t amused.  He posted on a popular, Al-Qaeda Web site…

“…cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever … We ask Allah to paralyze his tongue and grant the sincere monotheists his neck.” (New York Post)

A scary threat, no doubt.  But a little confusing, considering…

“Letterman, by the way, is not Jewish.” (WNYW)

So, what did Letterman say to attract the jihadist crosshairs?

“So, anyway, they picked a successor to Osama Bin Laden, and his name was Ilyas Kashmiri. Well, guess what?  He was blown up by an American drone." (CBS/CNN)

Hearing that, CNN’s Carol Costello says, ‘what’s the big deal?’

“It’s just, like, when I heard that I thought to my self, ‘that’s it?’  It’s just a strange world.”

The threat was picked up -- and translated -- by SITE Intelligence Group – a private organization that monitors the online activity of terrorist organizations.

An analyst for SITE says Letterman should take ‘as much precaution as he would with an obsessed fan.’ Comparing this threat to a similar, high-profile case, he says the Letterman posting is…

“…more worrisome than the ‘warning’ posted against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone last year. ‘This was a more explicit threat,’ he said. ‘It was direct and to the point.’” (Entertainment Weekly)

And a reporter on the Today Show says Letterman should be less worried about the source of the threat – and more about the potential for the violent message to spread.

Guthrie: “They are not saying this is a credible plot, or that this individual had taken any steps to execute this threat.”
Dienst: “That’s exactly right. No specific plot, but the concern is there’s chatter out there.  And will a lone actor act based on rhetoric that is posted on a known Al-Qaeda Web site?”

The FBI says it is investigating the threat.
 

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