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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc

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To: grampa who wrote (584)	10/7/1998 9:03:00 AM
From: SOROS	of 1151

BBC - London - 10/08/98 The United States says its embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia will close all day on Wednesday after receiving information they could be targets for an impending terrorist attack. In a single-page fax sent out by the US Embassy in Riyadh, American citizens living in Saudi Arabia were warned: "The US government has received information indicating a terrorist attack may be planned on the American Embassy in Riyadh". The message says the consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran will also be closed to the public on Wednesday to "review present security measures and to implement physical security enhancements". Security at US diplomatic and military facilities in Saudi Arabia is already high following the attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August in which more than 250 died, and the subsequent US reprisal air strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan. The Clinton administration was criticised at the time of the East Africa bombings for not having taken enough note of a recent threat against US interests. 'Legitimate target' Diplomats from other embassies in Riyadh complain that it has become more difficult to get to work due to the security cordon around the US embassy. US facilities in Saudi Arabia are thought to be high-risk targets because of the presence of several thousand US air force personnel at Prince Sultan town airbase south of Riyadh. The exiled Saudi millionaire, Osama bin Laden - blamed by the United States for a number of attacks - has been quoted as saying that while the Americans keep troops in Saudi Arabia, their civilians there will be considered legitimate targets. Although the US embassy in Riyadh declines to give out figures, there are estimated to be around 30,000 US citizens living in Saudi Arabia, in addition to US military personnel. The embassy in Riyadh has been surrounded by huge concrete blocks since a 1996 truck bomb outside an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia left 19 dead. An attack the previous year against a US military establishment in the country killed seven people.

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