[B Knotts]

No, but one version of the story I saw had this tacked on:

Burundi, a poor Central African nation, has been gripped by a civil war for more than ten years.

[mware]

I was curious since the President of Italy had mentioned a possible attack on the Vatican.

[Puppage]

Burundi, a poor Central African nation

Poor, because the King stole all of the money.

This is the same country that swiped a few Texas models under the guise of modeling jobs & then kept them as "slaves" & prostitutes.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"A report released Tuesday said Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has been largely dismantled, but the threat posed by extremist Muslim terrorists remains high and has grown harder to track. The report by the London-based Control Risks Group said the number of countries likely to pose a medium security risk to Western businesses operating in them was 71 for 2004, with 14 countries bumped up from low-risk. The group is a private consultancy that advises companies on security.....Many of this year's medium risk countries were in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar. Among the other nations moved from low to medium risk were Thailand, Bolivia and Morocco, according to the report, which was meant to aid companies in evaluating risks in different parts of the world....The number of countries where the risk was categorized as "extreme" increased from two this year to three for 2004. They were Burundi, Somalia and Liberia." -- USA Today 11/11/03