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Report to the Congress on Actions Taken by the Department of State in Response to the Program Recommendations of the Accountability Review Boards on the Embassy Bombings in Africa, April 1999 Summary Introduction and Overview Systems/Procedures      Recommendation 1: Alarms and Drills      Recommendation 2: No Low Threat Posts      Recommendation 3: Essential Physical Security Measures      Recommendation 4: Close Unsafe Chanceries, Move to New Buildings      Recommendation 5: Host Government Security Compliance      Recommendation 6: Revise Threat Assessment Criteria      Recommendation 7: More Regional Security Officers and Marine Security Guards      Recommendaton 8: Better Training for Security Officers      Recommendation 9: Reducing US Profile Abroad      Recommendation 10: Revise Physical Security Standards      Recommendation 11: One Secure Compound for All Agencies      Recommendation 12: Ensuring a Long Term Capital Building and Security Program      Recommendation 13: Firm Chain of Accountability      Recommendation 14: Informing the Public on the Critical Need to Protect US Interests and Personnel Abroad      Recommendation 15: Prepare for Chemical, Biological, Nuclear Terror Crisis Management      Recommendation 1: Crisis Management Training in Washington      Recommendation 2: Crisis Management Training for Posts Abroad      Recommendation 3: Reconfiguration of Emergency Support Teams      Recommendation 4: A New Aircraft for Foreign Emergency Support Teams      Recommendation 5: Better Coordination of Emergency Airlift      Recommendation 6: Off-Site Communications and Safety Equipment for Post Disasters Intelligence      Recommendations 1-3: Intelligence and Information Availability

See Report of Accountability Review Boards, January 1999