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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 5.20.2003 ::
:: I Am Curious Orange ::
From The Financial Times:
Warning prompts US to raise terror alert
By Mark Huband, Security Correspondent, in Kuwait
The US on Tuesday raised its terror alert to the second highest level as officials said they had received "credible information" that more terrorist attacks were being planned against targets in Saudi Arabia and beyond.
The US, UK and German embassies and trade missions in the kingdom will be closed temporarily from Wednesday in response to intelligence reports suggesting that attacks against unspecified targets may be "imminent".
The US decision to return to an orange alert will again trigger heightened security measures at US airports, government facilities and other possible targets. Washington had previously raised the alert level before the war in Iraq, but dropped it back to yellow last month after terrorists failed to act on threats to launch attacks during the war.
Referring to signs of increased terrorist activity, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the US, warned on Monday there was "a high level of chatter regionally and in other interna tional spots" about possible new attacks in Saudi Arabia - or even on US soil.
ALSO:
FACT SHEET: War on Terror
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