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| February 13, 2010 | US issues travel alert warning of attack on its citizens, facilities in S Asia | | Islamabad: The United States has issued a travel warning regarding
threat to American establishments and citizens in South and Central Asia.
The US State Department said that extremist groups like Al Qaeda, the Taliban
and their other offshoots may target US national and facilities using improvised
explosive devices (IED’s), vehicle-born explosives, and rocket attacks. Militants
could also resort to assassination, carjacking, or kidnappings, the warning said.
“The presence of al-Qaeda, Taliban elements, indigenous sectarian groups, and
other terror organisations, many of which are on the US Government’s list of foreign
terror organisations, poses a potential danger to American citizens in the region,”
The Nation quoted the travel alert, as saying. Terrorists and their sympathizers
have demonstrated their willingness and capability to attack targets where Americans
or Westerners are known to congregate or visit, it added. The advisory comes days
after three US aid officials were killed and scores other injured in a powerful
bomb blast in Lower Dir district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). All
the three officials belonged to the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID). | |
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