The e-mail reads: "Hello Sheikh Hasina, this is Al-Kaeda Group from your surroundings. Very soon, you will be killed by Al-Kaeda Group wherever you are. We want to (know) you through this newspaper about your death process. Be ready in USA or in Bangladesh. Yours enemy, Al-Kaeda Group Dhaka, Bangladesh."

Hasina is now in the US on a month-long visit and expected to return on November 21.

The reporting section of The Daily Star received the e-mail from (shahid ahamet) [email protected] at 3:44pm.

Earlier on August 24, three days after the grisly grenade attacks on an AL rally, the daily Prothom Alo received an e-mail that threatened to kill Hasina, claiming responsibility for the attacks.