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Online jihadist calls for David Letterman's assassination
EW.com ^ | August 17, 2011 | James Hibberd

Posted on 08/17/2011 12:52:31 PM PDT by Beaten Valve

A website frequently used by Al Qaeda has posted an assassination threat against David Letterman.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group, a frequent user of the online forum called on Muslims to kill the CBS late-night host after taking offense at a joke made on the program. A poster calling himself Umar al-Basrawi wrote: “Is there not amongst you a Sayyid Nosair al-Masri (may Allah release him) to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever. Just as Sayyid (may Allah release him) did with the Jew Kahane.” Sayyid Nosair al-Masri was tried for the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990.

SITE analyst Adam Raisman tells EW the threat was made on Shumukh-al-Islam, a site where messages from Al Qaeda frequently first appear online in the United States. “It’s a clearing house for Al Qaeda material, it gets the most Al Qaeda supporters,” he said.

Raisman ranked the threat as 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at insidetv.ew.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; assassination; cbs; letterman; omaralbasrawi; omarfrombasrairaq
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To: Beaten Valve

Those non muslims all look alike, so to a muslim, Letterman is a Jew. Sort of like every non mormon is a gentile, to the mormons - Even Jews.


41 posted on 08/17/2011 2:06:21 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The only problem some people have with tyranny is that theyÂ’re not the tyrant.)
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42 posted on 08/17/2011 2:10:11 PM PDT by Bobalu (He who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Neither do I. Cannot stand the idiot.

Apologies for the crossed wires.


43 posted on 08/17/2011 2:13:56 PM PDT by Oiao
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To: pingman

Haha the commies will start recognizing islam as a threat in 3, 2, 1......

By dinnertime, they’ll flipflop on islam.


44 posted on 08/17/2011 2:21:50 PM PDT by LyinLibs (All moslems are somewhere on the killing-you spectrum)
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To: Beaten Valve

There they go again! Demonstrating that great muslim sense of humor.


45 posted on 08/17/2011 3:47:43 PM PDT by golf lover
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To: Beaten Valve
Top Ten reasons why an online jihadist would want Letterman dead:

10: Because last nights top ten list sucked beyond belief.
9: Because the jihadist discovered Letterman's role in the assassination of JFK and the Watergate scandal
8: Because Letterman dissed Michael Jackson
7: Because, worse than that, Letterman dissed Elvis
6: Because Letterman refused to give his comedy writers a raise in their pay.
5: Because some four eyed, bald, keyboard playing musician, who gave his name as David Letterman, slept with his sister. And his Mother.
4: Because the jihadist is a Jay Leno fan.
3: Because Letterman ignored his Facebook friend invite.
2: Because Letterman mocked Allah by getting his beard shaved off back in 2008.

And the number one reason why an online jihadist would want Letterman dead:

1: Because that famed comedy writer Umar al-Basrawi is sick and tired of getting rejection slips for all the unsolicited top ten lists he keeps on sending in to Letterman's office

46 posted on 08/17/2011 3:47:58 PM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: Beaten Valve

Sounds like we will learn just how strong or weak Letterman’s security forces are,eh?


47 posted on 08/17/2011 10:59:49 PM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: Beaten Valve

After the way he treated Palin I don’t wish him well


48 posted on 08/17/2011 11:12:04 PM PDT by dervish (female candidates: the last frontier)
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To: Beaten Valve

A jihadist? I always figured some pissed off husband or boy friend would finish him off first. No tears from me if it happened to this sleaze bag.


49 posted on 08/18/2011 2:38:11 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: All; Allegra; Jet Jaguar; Oorang

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http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a335674/david-letterman-assassination-called-for-by-jihadist.html

“David Letterman assassination called for by jihadist”

Wednesday, August 17 2011, 4:19pm EDT
By Tara Fowler, Entertainment Reporter

SNIPPET: “An internet jihadist has issued an assassination threat against late-night host David Letterman.

The threat was made by a frequent poster on a site where Al Qaeda messages often appear first online in the US, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The individual apparently took offense at a joke made by Letterman on his CBS talkshow, in which the comedian made light of the death of accused terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri.

The online commenter wrote: “Is there not amongst you a Sayyid Nosair al-Masri (may Allah release him) to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever.

“He showed his evil nature and deep hatred for Islam and Muslims, and said that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed and he joined bin Laden. We ask Allah to paralyze his tongue and grant the sincere monotheists his neck.””

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http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?53-At-Shumoukh-forum-Omar-Al-Basrawi-posted-death-threat-against-Letterman

“At Shumoukh forum Omar Al Basrawi posted death threat against Letterman”

(August 17, 2011)

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http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/40138.htm

“Member of Jihadi Forum Calls to ‘Cut Off the Tongue’ of David Letterman”

SNIPPET: “On August 17, 2011, a member of the jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam using the handle “’Omar Al-Basrawi” (’Omar from Basra, Iraq) posted a message calling on American Muslims to assassinate late night talk show host David Letterman. The post, titled “To the Muslims in America – Isn’t There a Sayyid Nosair among You to Chop Off the Tongue of this Hateful Jew?” read: “I have seen with my eyes and heard with my ears one of the scum of the Jews, one of their pigs, mocking the leaders of the mujahideen. It is the hateful David Letterman, an American Zionist, who hosts a comedy show called ‘The Late Show with David Letterman.’”


50 posted on 08/20/2011 3:44:56 PM PDT by Cindy
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