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To: SOROS who wrote (51)	9/2/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

Washington Post - 09/02/98 KUWAIT (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait said today an attack was possibly being planned against it, and a note found on a plane warned of a bomb attack on the U.S. mission in the Philippines. Washington has closed some of its diplomatic missions around the world and maximized security at others since the Aug. 7 bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 258 people and injured more than 5,500. A message on the embassy's telephone line for U.S. citizens in Kuwait said: ''The U.S. government has received information indicating that a similar attack may be being planned in Kuwait.'' The message said the embassy was taking ''appropriate security precautions.'' Embassy spokesman Claud Young told The Associated Press that the mission does not plan to close down. He would not say how or where the threat was received. The embassy in this oil-rich state has received several bomb threats since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. A handwritten note threatening the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, was found Tuesday in the toilet of a plane that arrived in Kuwait from Dubai, said Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Bader Saleh. He quoted the note as saying in English: ''The American Embassy in the Philippines will be bombed on Sept. 4, 1998.'' In Manila, embassy spokesman Michael Korff said the mission was aware of the threat. He would not comment further. Manila police chief Virtus Gil said more men would be added to improve security at the seaside embassy. On Monday, the United States closed its embassies in the West African countries of Ghana and Togo because of security threats. The one in Togo reopened today and Ghana's is expected to reopen Thursday. The East African embassy bombings led to U.S. missile strikes on suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that the U.S. government accused of making materials for chemical weapons.

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