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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (21640)	4/14/2003 10:30:04 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 206116

OT - my last one here too but I thought you would like to know the situation now after all the embassy bombings: How many are you going to put armed Marines at? Most but not all, though Marines are there mostly to protect classified documents and equipment. How many are you going to rip up construction and put in concrete barriers at? Bulletproof windows, metal detectors? The embassy? Okay. How about the separate embassy compound? Okay. All of those. And all the separate embassy residences? Not to the same level but much more than before. Most residences are leased from the local market then improved by the embassy, except the few missions that have housing compounds. Depends on the local threat level. The US AID building? In most cases, yes. If it's an office building the floors they are on will have a full hardline entrance. Bottom line, it's very hard to hit an embassy with a truck bomb now, but not much harder than before to nail individual employees as they come and go. That's part of the life and the risk you take. As you point out, we learn from experience, often the hard way. Now back to the markets.