My wife is traveling to the middle east for business soon. So we were checking travel warnings for the countries she will be visiting. Out of curiosity I looked at St. Martin. Would you believe that the threat level is higher for our beloved SXM than it is for Jordan, Egypt, and Israel (although certain areas are definitely off limits). I was a bit surprised--maybe that just exposes my own naïveté. FYI-According to the State Dept., the threat in SXM is related to all of the hurricane damage not terrorism.