U.S. warns of possible Algeria plane attack plot


  • World
  • Tuesday, 13 Mar 2007

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Militants may be planning to attack commercial aircraft carrying Western workers in Algeria, the U.S. embassy said in a message to Americans living in the oil-exporting North African country. 

An embassy warden's message dated March 12 and posted on the Web site of the U.S. government's Overseas Security Advisory Council said: "There is information that extremists may be planning to conduct an attack against a commercial aircraft carrying Western workers in Algeria." 

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