Security was stepped up the following year after Osama bin Laden issued a general threat to kill US military personnel.

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Ms Landa's father has also been charged with making a threat to kill Harjinder Singh and unlawful possession of a knife.

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The parents paid the ransom without informing the police, having believed the abductors threat to kill their child if the police were involved.

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The brothers were later charged with attempted grievous bodily harm with intent and making a threat to kill in connection with a separate attack on another 11-year-old boy in Doncaster a week earlier.

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Balotelli curled a shot across the face of goal before limping off with cramp and Claudio Marchisio twice drilled wide from inviting positions as Italy failed to kill off the German threat.

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Television reports last year mentioned the threat against Mr. Obama, and the plot to kill Gen.

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Even the rivers of the Kola peninsula, so heavily promoted by American and British travel companies, now seem under threat, with biologists estimating that poachers kill up to 50% of the salmon run on the Kola River and as much as a third on the Umba, Kharlovka and Rynda.

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"In December 2010, the PSNI received a report that Mr McClenaghan had threatened to kill Ms Millican and himself - they notified her of this threat, " a spokesman said.

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Second, it assumes that consumers are better off being told that grilled chicken can kill them, when most experts would consider undercooked chicken to be a far more serious threat.

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