RI citizens in Mideast told to prepare for evacuation.

(From The Jakarta Post)

The government has evacuated 25 of 84 Indonesians living in Iraq and warned nationals in other Middle Eastern countries to be ready to evacuate if the United States decides to take military action against Iraq.

The chairman of a national task force in charge of evacuating citizens in Middle Eastern countries, Gen. (ret) Widodo A.S., said here on Friday that there were some 40,000 Indonesians living in Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar who should be evacuated in the event that there is a war in Iraq.

"Our embassies in those countries have alerted our citizens there to be ready should the government decide to evacuate them," …