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NOTE The following text SNIPPET is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Non-Specific Threat to Serena Hotel Islamabad CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS South / Central Asia - Pakistan 5 Aug 2010 U.S. Embassy Islamabad released the following Warden Message on August 5, 2010: This Warden Notice is to notify American citizens that access to the Serena Hotel in Islamabad has been temporarily halted while security officials investigate a non-specific telephonic threat. The Embassy has no further details at this time, but has advised personnel to avoid the area around the Serena...

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Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Kabul Serena Hotel and Victory Day Threats CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS South / Central Asia - Afghanistan 22 Apr 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 11 Feb 2009 KABUL SUICIDE COMBINED-ARMS ATTACKS 11 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ATTACKS ON AFGHAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS 10 Feb 2009 AFGHANISTAN 2009 CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT 24 Nov 2008 TERRORIST TACTICS: ATTACK ON INDIAN EMBASSY IN AFGHANISTAN U.S. Embassy Kabul released the following Warden Message on April 22: Recent intelligence reporting indicates that insurgents...

via translation - KABUL - Four people were killed and six injured Monday evening in an attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, Serena, announced the spokesman of the Interior Ministry, Zamarai Bashary. "There was first a suicide attack at the entrance to the hotel, followed by a second explosion," he told AFP. "There were subsequent exchange of fire," he added. "Four people were killed and six injured," he added.