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* * * 2006 ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET - GOA * * *
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WHERE: Foodland Cafe - Miramar Residency - Miramar, Goa
WHEN: December 21, 2006 @ 4:00pm
More info:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-December/051398.html
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ANJUNA, India, Dec. 15 - A favored destination of young Israelis seeking
respite from the frazzle and stress of home, the tourist haven of Goa got a
rude reminder of reality this week.
Based on information gleaned by its counterterrorism agency, the Israeli
government issued a rare terrorism alert on Thursday warning of a planned
attack by Al Qaeda on tourists during the New Year's holiday season. The
advisory described the information as "a concrete threat" but gave no
further detail.
The Israeli Embassy urged its citizens to visit another time or, if they
must be in the state of Goa, to stay away from crowded places. "We advise
them to be alert and to take this threat very seriously," the embassy
spokesman, Lior Weintraub, said Friday by telephone from New Delhi, the
capital.
In Anjuna, on Goa's northern coast, where Internet cafes cater to Israelis
checking e-mail messages from home and where restaurants serve schnitzel for
lunch, the news of Al Qaeda's suspected designs was greeted with a mixture
of apprehension and aplomb.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/world/middleeast/16goa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
