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