Taslima flees to the US after al-Qaeda threat

Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen has fled from India to the US after she was named as an al-Qaeda murder target, a rights group has said.
The US based Center for Inquiry says that she arrived in America last week, BBC Online reported.
It says that she "specifically named as an imminent target" by the same extremists who killed three secular bloggers this year in Bangladesh.
Ms Nasreen recently tweeted that she was not safe in India.
"Was threatened by Islamists who killed atheist bloggers in B'desh. Worried," she tweeted.
The murders of the bloggers have triggered large scale protests across Bangladesh
"Wanted to meet GOI (government of India) but no appointment. Left. Will be back when feel safe."
A strong critic of fundamentalist Islam, the 52-year-old feminist writer was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 after receiving death threats from radical Muslim groups who condemned a number of her writings as blasphemous.
She spent a decade in Europe and the US before India granted her a temporary residential permit in 2004.
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) in a statement said that it helped Ms Nasreen to move to the US in order "to alleviate the immediate threat to her life".
"Her safety is only temporary if she cannot remain in the US, which is why CFI has established an emergency fund to help with food, housing and the means for her to be safely settled," the statement said.
"Dr Nasreen arrived in Buffalo, New York on Wednesday and was met by CFI staff."
The CFI says that it has also heard from several other writers and activists in Bangladesh who have also been been named as murder targets because of their "secular advocacy".