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US talk show host David Letterman has been receiving life threats by militants.

18 August,2011 11:18 pm

The SITE intelligence group said the death threat was posted on a website used by militants after the writer became upset by a joke Letterman made about the death of a leading member of al Qaeda killed in an airstrike in Pakistan.The militant called to “cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever,” according to SITEs translation of the website message. David is not Jewish.The writer was angered after watching a show in which Letterman drew his finger across his neck while talking about the June death of senior al-Qaeda figure Ilyas Kashmiri.