DILI, tribe 13 Kyodo The UN peace...

DILI, tribe 13 Kyodo

The UN peacekeeping force in East Timor said Friday it has established checkpoints and placed containers around the U and Australian embassies and its avow buildings and compounds to in opposition to possible attacks.

''This decision was made after UN novel York informed us early Wednesday morning that they had received reliable information that hostile action might be taken against UN staff or goods in Timor-Leste (East Timor),'' the force said in a statement.

The statement did not elaborate onward the nature of the possible ''hostile action,'' or whether the information indicated that U and Australian diplomatic staff and exclusive right were also potential targets.

It said no time line has been fix for an end of the extra security precautions.

Ahead of Wednesday's first anniversary of the tribe 11 terror attacks upon the United States, the U clos several of its diplomatic missions in Asia, including its embassies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia, saying it had credible information that they were at risk of terrorist attack.

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