World braced for possible further attacks
The world is on high terror alert after yesterday’s attacks in Casablanca and the recent suicide bomb attacks in Saudi Arabia.
The United States has said, despite toppling Saddam Hussein’s Iraq relatively easily, that the war against terrorism was not yet over.
The present was defined as a ‘time of concern’ by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, as new fears emerged that al Qaeda was ‘poised’ to strike attack.
The British Foreign Office said yesterday there was a ‘clear terrorist threat’ in the countries bordering Kenya. Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda were named.
‘British nationals are advised to be especially vigilant in public places frequented by foreigners,’ the Foreign Office said.
The Foreign Office also placed a ban on flights to and from Kenya, and warned of another Bali-style terrorist attack in South East Asia and the Middle East
The US will imminently announce plans to withdraw all ancillary diplomatic staff and their families from Kenya.
Australia, a close ally of the US in the war against terror, has increased travel warnings to Africa and the entire South East Asian region. The Australian Foreign Office advises against travel to Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia.
Authorities fear that the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah group, believed to have carried out the Bali bombings, may strike again.
