[AmericanInTokyo]

"A report released Tuesday said Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has been largely dismantled, but the threat posed by extremist Muslim terrorists remains high and has grown harder to track. The report by the London-based Control Risks Group said the number of countries likely to pose a medium security risk to Western businesses operating in them was 71 for 2004, with 14 countries bumped up from low-risk. The group is a private consultancy that advises companies on security.....Many of this year's medium risk countries were in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar. Among the other nations moved from low to medium risk were Thailand, Bolivia and Morocco, according to the report, which was meant to aid companies in evaluating risks in different parts of the world....The number of countries where the risk was categorized as "extreme" increased from two this year to three for 2004. They were Burundi, Somalia and Liberia." -- USA Today 11/11/03

[B Knotts]

I wonder why they lump Burundi in there. They only have 10% Muslims. Although that's more than enough, I suppose.

[B Knotts]

Ah. Re-reading more carefully, they are talking about general threats to Western businesses, not just al-Qaeda-related.

Which would make sense. e.g., you're going to have a pretty bad threat level in the middle of a civil war.

[SauronOfMordor]

Possible Religion of Peace alert:

Burundi's Muslim population has gone from 1% in 1990 to 10% now. 75% of Burundi is Catholic. It is not to the Muslims' advantage to have a strong presence by the Catholic hierarchy