The Swiss government is increasing its security at installations and for its nationals abroad after receiving a warning from an extremist terrorist group based in Lebanon that it would seek retaliation for the arrest and pending trial of a Shiite hijacker who killed a passenger on an Air Afrique jet last Friday at the Geneva airport.
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