"I will present a list with three candidates to be national commissioner of security,"
                 Portillo said.

                 "I will do it that way because the commission will receive aid from and will
                 coordinate work with U.S. authorities."

                 The security and anti-terrorism commission was announced last week in response
                 to the U.S. call for a global war on terror in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the
                 Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

                 No candidates have yet been announced for the post of commissioner, who is
                 supposed to monitor the country's security systems.

                 Portillo said on Friday that his country was vulnerable to being used as a platform
                 or target for terrorist acts, partly due to corruption in the immigration services.

                 "We have no elements to suspect that there are terrorists in Guatemala," he said,
                 "but that is not to say that there could not be in the future."

                 Meanwhile, police spokesman Ricardo Gatica said somebody placed a false bomb in
                 front of the Israeli Embassy in Guatemala City after calling with a bomb threat.

                 The package contained a wristwatch and cables, but no explosive.

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