Posted on 09/15/2012 11:29:53 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The US State Department ordered the departure of all family members and non-essential personnel from its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia on Saturday and warned American citizens against any travel to the two countries amid escalating violence.
The United States ordered non-essential staff to leave its embassies in Tunisia and Sudan on Saturday after both diplomatic posts were attacked and Khartoum rejected a U.S. request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at its mission there.
“Given the security situation in Tunis and Khartoum, the U.S. State Department has ordered the departure of all family members and non-emergency personnel from both posts, and issued parallel travel warnings to American citizens,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.
The U.S. embassies in Tunis and Khartoum were attacked on Friday by protesters infuriated by a widely disseminated anti-Islamic film, made in the United States, that insults the Prophet Mohammad and has provoked a violent reaction across the Muslim world.
Four people were killed and 46 injured in the assault on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, according to a hospital official in the city.
In Khartoum, around 5,000 people protesting against the film stormed the German embassy before breaking into the U.S. mission on Friday. They also attacked the British embassy and at least two people were killed in clashes with police, according to state media.
A U.S. official told Reuters on Friday that Washington would send Marines to Sudan to improve security at the embassy, which is located outside Khartoum for security reasons.
But Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti told the state news agency SUNA, “Sudan is able to protect the diplomatic missions in Khartoum and the state is committed to protecting its guests in the diplomatic corps.”
The top security body in the Khartoum region said
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Part of the plan. Remove all US embassies from the Middle East.
Agreed. Get rid of those post colonial outposts that subjugated so many “free” Muslims./S
The wages of liberal fascism are fairly obvious.Anyone who voted for Obama should be absolutely ashamed at putting a nationalist socialist in charge of our executive branch of government.
Good Read:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Has the empty chair apologized for the presence of kafir on muslime soil yet? /spit
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