UK warns of High Attack Risks in the United Arab Emirates

June 16th, 2008

I just knew few hours ago that the British Embassy in the United Arab Emirates raised the terror alert level from (General) to (High), I heard that some Britons and people from other nationalities are panicking and it looks like most of them are taking this seriously, as we all should, and trying to avoid going to public places. This was posted on the embassy’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office website (www.fco.gov.uk) this Saturday:

“There is a high threat from terrorism. We believe terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the UAE, Attacks could be indiscriminate and could happen at any time, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers such as residential compounds, military, oil, transport and aviation interests,”

The website also states that over a million British visitors travelled to the UAE in 2006, and more than 100,000 British nationals are resident there.

None of the other western countries such as USA have issued any warning of this sort yet.

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