Information About Incident 28939-51511-118360 in Meerut India

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A letter, purportedly written by a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, threatening to kill the President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and the Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, was recovered from a cinema hall at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on May 14, according to Press Trust of India.

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A letter, purportedly written by a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, threatening to kill the President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and the Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, was recovered from a cinema hall at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on May 14, according to Press Trust of India. The letter, written by Karim Ansari, claiming to be a LeT militant, threatened to "eliminate soon Gandhi and Kalam and to blow up on May 24 Meerut Railway Station, Apsara Cinema and several other cinemas in the city besides the Delhi Railway Station, India Gate and Palampur (IGIA) Airport."

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28939-51511-118360 5/15/2007 India Lashkar-e-Toiba issues threat to President Abdul Kalam and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi

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