U.S. Embassy in RP on alert

U.S. Embassy in RP on alert

MANILA (AFP): Philippine police have stepped up security
around U.S. facilities amid threats of an attack on the U.S.
Embassy here found on an aircraft in Kuwait, officials said on
Thursday.

President Joseph Estrada said U.S. facilities "are being
closely watched. Since the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in
Kenya ... we have alerted not only the police but the armed
forces to patrol the U.S. Embassy and not just the embassy but
other (facilities)."

A letter was found this week on an Emirates Airlines plane in
Kuwait which threatened an attack on the embassy on Sept. 4.

According to an official toll, 247 people died in an Aug. 7
terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. A bomb at the
U.S. Embassy in the Tanzanian capital left 10 people dead.

A Philippine Moslem political alliance charged on Thursday
that the U.S. Embassy had made up the letter to prevent them
staging a protest in front of the embassy on Friday.