{"id":1789,"date":"2010-10-04T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2010-10-04T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:32:00","slug":"europe-travel-warnings-heightened-for-us-and-uk-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/10\/europe-travel-warnings-heightened-for-us-and-uk-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Travel Warnings Heightened for US and UK Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/\">ETN<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/files\/imagecache\/fullpage\/GermanPolice.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/files\/imagecache\/fullpage\/GermanPolice.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Both the US State Department and the British Foreign Office heightened warnings Sunday for European travel, days after reports that intelligence agencies had learned of a terrorist plot to attack targets in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that the travel advice for France and Germany has been updated,&#8221; a foreign office spokeswoman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Sunday, the US State Department released an official alert for Americans travelling to Europe, reminding US citizens to be aware of the chance that attackers could target &#8220;public transportation and other tourist infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organisations continue to plan terrorist attacks,&#8221; the alert stated. &#8220;European governments have taken action to guard against a terrorist attack and some have spoken publicly about the heightened threat conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department alert did not list any specific warnings for individual countries in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>UK Home Secretary Theresa May called on British nationals to report any suspicious activities to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Citing intelligence officials and people familiar with the matter, National Public Radio in the United States reported Friday that al-Qaida boss Osama bin Laden sent a directive to the terrorist network&#8217;s partners months ago, ordering a Mumbai-style attack on at least three European countries \u2013 Germany, Britain and France.<\/p>\n<p>More than 160 people were killed in the 2008 shooting and bombing attacks in India&#8217;s largest city.<\/p>\n<p>Some officials worried that members of the commando-style teams could be travelling to the West using European passports, thus complicating any effort to find and stop them.<\/p>\n<p>Despite media reports, the German Interior Ministry announced Wednesday that it would not raise the threat level for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel magazine reported that the latest terror plot was uncovered during interrogations of a German-Afghan detainee being held at the Bagram US army base in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ETN Both the US State Department and the British Foreign Office heightened warnings Sunday for European travel, days after reports that intelligence agencies had learned of a terrorist plot to attack targets in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. &#8220;We can confirm that the travel advice for France and Germany has been updated,&#8221; a foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}