Americans in Kuwait, RI reminded of threats ahead of July 4:

Americans in Kuwait, RI reminded of threats ahead of July 4: Americans in Kuwait and Indonesia have been reminded of continuing terrorist threats as they prepare to celebrate the U.S. Independence Day holiday this week, the State Department said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the U.S. embassy in Pakistan has implemented heightened security measures for its annual Fourth of July party, the department said. Although there are no specific July 4-related threats in either Kuwait or Indonesia, the U.S. embassies there sent messages to local American communities beginning last week, advising them to remain on guard for possible attacks. -- AFP

Militant in Saudi Arabia blows himself up: The most wanted Islamic militant in Saudi Arabia blew himself up on Thursday when cornered by security forces in the north of the country, security sources said. Turky al-Dandani, who was number one on a list of 19 suspects and believed to be the mastermind behind the May 12 suicide attacks in Riyadh that left 35 people dead, killed himself in Skaka, Jawf province, the source said. "Three of Dandani's followers were also killed in the explosion," he said, adding that two policemen were also injured. -- AFP

Rare Liberian protests urge Taylor to quit: Hundreds of people demonstrated in Liberia's capital on Thursday in an unprecedented show of opposition to President Charles Taylor, a day after U.S. President George W. Bush told him to leave the country. "Taylor must go" and "No more Taylor, we want Bush", chanted more than 400 people outside the U.S. embassy as American Marines in flak jackets and helmets kept watch from behind sandbagged posts on the roof. -- Reuters

Mujahideen leader walks free from French prison: Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi walked free from a French prison on Thursday, among the last of a group of exiles released after being held for two weeks over possible links with terrorism. Some 2,000 supporters greeted a tearful Rajavi at her base in Auvers- sur-Oise near Paris, where a court ordered she stay while being investigated on the charge of "association with criminals in connection with a terrorist enterprise". -- Reuters