Bomb Threats to U.S. Embassies in Kuwait, Philippines Reported

The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait said Wednesday that an attack was possibly being planned against it, and a note found on a plane warned of a bomb attack on the U.S. mission in the Philippines.

In Yemen, a Coca-Cola factory received a warning to shut down before it gets bombed by militants, factory officials said Wednesday.

Washington has closed some of its diplomatic missions worldwide and increased security at others since the Aug. 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 260 people and injured more than 5,000.

A message on the embassy’s telephone line for U.S. citizens in Kuwait said: “The U.S. government has received information indicating that a similar attack may be being planned in Kuwait.”

Embassy spokesman Claud Young told Associated Press that the mission does not plan to close down.

A note threatening the U.S. Embassy in Manila was found Tuesday in the restroom of a plane that arrived in Kuwait from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Kuwaiti Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Bader Saleh said. He quoted the note as saying in English: “The American Embassy in the Philippines will be bombed on Sept. 4, 1998.”

In the Yemeni capital of Sana, the Coca-Cola factory was sent an anonymous fax Monday that said: “This is an American factory and should be closed or we will blow it up without further warning. This is a final warning,” the Al Balagh newspaper reported Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Taliban militia said Wednesday that it had found a U.S. cruise missile that crashed close to suspected terrorist camps in eastern Afghanistan on Aug. 20.