1.   The Americans in the Persian Gulf emirate are now operating under a threat condition known as Charlie, one level below Delta, the highest state of alert.

2.   A U.S. Defense Department official said the threat condition at the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam had been considered low.

3.   Attorney General John Ashcroft will assign threat conditions in consultation with Ridge.

4.   The level of alert was two to three notches above normal threat conditions, with U.S. and Italian military bases at the higher level.

5.   The Pentagon also is reviewing specific protective measures that are required of ships under various threat conditions.

6.   Tenet, in a review of threat conditions worldwide, expressed concern about the instability created by a terrorist attack in December on the Indian parliament.