That was not my point, Peter. To ignore something can be seen as support of course. The US government, however, has not ignored the threat but it has reacted as you have posted yourself. You can take them to task for the inappropriateness of the reaction and I would agree with that.

I could be wrong, but the two phrases
US admin ignores death threat    and
US admin calls it inappropriate
in juxtaposition sounded wrong to me. "To ignore" for me would imply that they do not react at all.

Wolfgang