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Modi gets assassination threat in personal email
Published on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 17:57, Updated on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 18:06 in India section
Tags: Narendra Modi, Death Threat , New Delhi
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New Delhi: Intelligence sources have revealed to CNN-IBN that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has received an assassination threat on his personal email address.
The email has claimed that he will be killed during an interview to a Pakistani media group by some people posing as reporters.
A Pakistani media house has apparently applied for an interview with Modi about 10 days ago.
Highly placed sources in the Gujarat government have confirmed the email and said that additional steps will be taken to ensure Modi's security.
The email makes a specific reference to the assassination of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Masoud by terrorists posing as reporters two days before 9/11.
Massoud was the target of a suicide attack which occurred at Khwaja Bahauddin on September 9, 2001. The attackers were two Arabs, Dahmane Abd al-Sattar and Bouraoui el-Ouaer, who claimed to be Belgians originally from Morocco.
However, their passports turned out to be stolen and their nationality Tunisian. The assassins claimed to want to interview Massoud and set off a bomb in a belt worn by the cameraman while asking Massoud questions.
Dawood's new targets Advani, Modi: Intelligence
And this is not the only assassination threat that Modi has received. Intelligence inputs have come to the Government which have suggested that underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, has been 'given the task' to kill senior BJP leader LK Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Following the intelligence inputs, the security of both the leaders was reviewed at a meeting of Union Home Ministry officials on Tuesday.
Both Advani, NDA's prime ministerial candidate for Lok Sabha polls, and Modi now enjoy the highest category of security cover — Z-plus — from Black Cat commandos of elite National Security Guards.
Gujarat ADG Intelligence, VC Pandey has told CNN IBN, "Looking at the threat perception the security of the Chief Minister has been increased. Earliar he was getting Z plus — security that will remain as it is — but we have increased strength in the second circle. We are focussing more on access control and bullet proofing."
The intelligence inputs about heightened threat perception of Modi were conveyed to Gujarat government which has been asked to take necessary steps for his security, they said.
Dawood has been declared a global terrorist by the United States.
(With inputs from PTI)
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why does he need security. it is the ordinary citizens of india who needs protection from corrupt politicians. politicans don't
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Well said
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Ha Ha Ha... dont make such news without knowing the facts.
what did modi do except for the high-class hindu population.
he
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Often these kind of threats give us a cue as to who all are real leaders of the nation and
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The central government should give the maxmium security to MR. MODI and threats should not be taken lightly. He is
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