A team of US Marines have arrived in the Red Sea port of Jeddah to assist in security at the US Consulate that came under attack by Islamic militants, a American Embassy official said today.

Saudi Arabia’s US ambassador told Americans in the oil-rich city of Yanbu: “Go home. We cannot protect you”, following the terror attack that killed six foreign workers.

Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators, is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, sources at the hospital said today.

ISRAEL yesterday said US president George W Bush was likely to hold a summit with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers in Jordan next week to promote a US-backed “road map” for Middle East peace.

Security officials and diplomats in the Gulf, the Far East and East Africa were tonight trying to piece together the strands of intelligence pointing to imminent major al-Qaida terror attacks.

Israel today displayed 50 tons of missiles, mortars, and mines seized on a ship and accused the Palestinians of plotting ‘‘the next wave of terror’’.