﻿ World on edge as terror warnings spread - Taipei Times Sat,
May 17, 2003 - Page 1　News List  World on edge as terror
warnings spread  POTENTIAL TARGETS The US State Department fears
a repeat of Monday's bombings in Saudi Arabia as alerts of
possible terror attacks were issued from Kenya to Asia   Terror
alerts spread around the world yesterday with Australia and New
Zealand warning their nationals to be on their guard in
Southeast Asia, a region still haunted by last year's Bali
bombings.  As Saudi, FBI and CIA agents hunted for the
masterminds of this week's suicide bomb attacks in Riyadh, the
US Department of State said on Thursday it feared an imminent
attack by Islamic militants in another Saudi city, Jeddah.
Lebanon said it had smashed a plot to attack the US embassy in
Beirut, while Britain banned flights to Kenya, where past terror
attacks have killed hundreds.  In Pakistan, a US ally in the war
on terror, nearly two dozen small bombs exploded at Western-
branded gas stations.  Governments around the