LOS ANGELES- A Muslim militant has urgedAmerican followers to assassinate US talk show host DavidLetterman, saying his tongue deserves to be cut out, a USintelligence monitoring group said on Wednesday.
The SITE intelligence group said the death threat wasposted on an online website used by militants after the writerbecame upset by a joke Letterman made about the death of aleading member of al Qaida killed in an air-strike in Pakistan.
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Executives at broadcaster CBS and a spokesman for Lettermanon Wednesday declined to comment on the threat.
