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Warden Message: Threat of Attacks in Lebanon
Consular Affairs Bulletins
Middle East / N. Africa - Lebanon
29 May 2007
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U.S. Embassy Beirut issued the following Warden Message on May 29, 2007:
The U.S. Embassy wishes to advise Americans that Fatah al-Islam has renewed its threat of attacks against Western-associated locations in Lebanon. In addition, similar credible threats have been made by the militant group Jund al-Sham and Al-Qaeda. The Embassy strongly urges Americans residing in Lebanon to review their planned movements and to remain vigilant during this time. American citizens should also carefully assess the need to visit popular gathering spots or other public places where large numbers of people gather. Ongoing fighting between Lebanese security forces and Fatah al-Islam militants in Tripoli and around the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian camp in Northern Lebanon has the potential to spark related violence. Americans should avoid the Tripoli region and we urge any remaining Americans in the area to depart if they have not yet done so.
For the latest security information, Americans should regularly monitor the Department’s web site at http://travel.state.gov where the current Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, Middle East and North Africa Public Announcement, Travel Warnings and other Public Announcements can be found. Up-to-date information on security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll free in the U.S. and Canada, or, for callers outside the U.S. and Canada, a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).
Americans living or traveling in Lebanon are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate through the State Department’s travel registration website, http://travelregistration.state.gov , so that they can obtain updated information on travel and security within Lebanon. Americans without Internet access may register directly with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate.
The Embassy is located in Awkar, near Antelias, Beirut, Lebanon. Public access hours for American citizens are Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. However, American citizens who require emergency services outside of these hours may contact the Embassy by telephone at any time. The telephone numbers are (961-4) 542-600, 543-600, and fax 544-209. Website: http://lebanon.usembassy.gov .
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“Venezuela’s Totalitarian Turn”
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 30, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hugo Chavez may be setting the stage for what he calls “21st century socialism,” but his communist revolution won’t be televised — at least not by any television outlet not slavishly loyal to Venezuela’s emerging dictator.
Sending its clearest signal yet that 21st century socialism will be no more tolerant of free speech than its 20th century predecessor, the Venezuelan government, acting on earlier threats, last week refused to renew the license of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), the country’s most watched and, with nearly 54 years on the air, oldest operating television broadcaster. Before the government-enforced blackout, the station had been among the last to retain its independence in a country where the media has been reduced to a propaganda arm of the regime. Replacing RCTV will be TVes, which has Chavez’s personal endorsement as “socialist television.” To add insult to injury, the Supreme Court, packed with government apparatchiks, has ruled that RCTV must also surrender its equipment to TVes.
“With this move, Chavez has crossed the dictatorial Rubicon,” Thor Halvorssen, president of the New York-based human rights watchdog the Human Rights Foundation (HRW), told me this week. A pro-democracy activist whose mother was murdered by Venezuelan security officers in 2004, Halvorssen notes that the clampdown against RCTV had been foreshadowed by Chavez’s increasingly militant diatribes against independent media.”