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AP: al-Qaida Planned New Embassy Attack

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Associated Press Writer

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Al-Qaida operatives planned to destroy the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in June with a truck bomb and a hijacked plane loaded with explosives, a plot described in a Kenya police report seen by The Associated Press on Friday.

The report, based on an interrogation of a terror suspect, could explain why the U.S. Embassy was closed June 20-24 and why Kenyan officials banned flights from June 20-July 8 to and from Somalia, a lawless neighbor and suspected haven for terrorists.

Meanwhile, Britain's Foreign Office said Friday it believed that "terrorists may be in the final phases of planning attacks" in Saudi Arabia.

The Foreign Office gave no details about its information, but said its warning to British nationals against all but essential travel in Saudi Arabia remained in place.

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They know enough to describe it as being in the final planning phases but don't know enough to take the same precautions and close down the embassy?

Rather odd that the Saudi Arabia aspect of it only merits two sentences in the Washington Post article to warn British nationals against travel there but says nothing at all about Americans traveling to the destination.

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Here come some more warnings:

From Canada: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s975278.htm

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Could it be that Saudi Arabia has created a monster it cannot control----and the monster failing to reduce America to ruins has decided to take control of it's corrupt parent. It wouldn't be the first time a monster child has turned on it's parent.

The house of Saud may have pulled it's head out of the sand----too late.

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U.S. Embassy attack halted.

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