Posted on 08/01/2013 3:56:52 PM PDT by kristinn
U.S. embassies in a slew of Muslim countries will close on Sunday due to a credible and serious security threat.
The embassies will close in response to "a specific threat against a U.S. embassy or consulate," according to a senior U.S. official, who called it a "concerted effort" to target an embassy or consulate in a Muslim country.
"We just don't know which one," the official told ABC News.
"There could be other targets, not just embassies," another U.S. official said. The threat is considered to be throughout the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
Some of the biggest U.S. embassies will close, including those in Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, where tens of thousands of U.S. troops are based. The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan will also close. So will embassies in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Amman, Jordan; Muscat, Oman; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Algiers, Algeria; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Sana'a, Yemen; and Tripoli, Libya, according to security warnings issued by those embassies. Two consulates in Saudi Arabia will also close, in Dharan and Jeddah, as will a consulate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The State Department has instructed all U.S. embassies that would normally be open this Sunday to close, according to a senior State Department official. U.S. embassies in Muslim countries are typically open on Sundays, while others are not. Most U.S. embassies will be closed this Sunday in keeping with normal hours of operation.
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What was that?
lol.
A Korean band named BIG BANG and their song “Fantastic Baby”.
Sounds like 3 different songs crammed together to me
It is sooo wonderful everybody Loves and respect us now. I feel so good and safe.
You can’t make this sheite up!
Is Ramadan over? Or is it because there have been massive prison breaks in Iraq, Benghazi and a few other places? They certainly haven’t made much of them on the nightly news..in fact, you hardly ever hear about Iraq or Afghanistan.
I hate the media, just HATE them. They paraded that Cindy Sheehan all over the country on someone’s deep pockets. Yet, except for Fox and a few conservative websites, no answers and no appearances by the moms of those lost in Benghazi. Utterly sickening.
Let’s be fair now. Hillary has really upped her game here and seems to have learned her lesson from Benghazi.
What’s that? Hillary is no longer...
Never mind.
Well, Benghzi was a jihadi-party with no consequences, so why not spread around the fun?
August 4 is the anniversary of the invasion of Kuwait, the trigger for Gulf War I and the arrival of the "infidel" in the "holy" Arabian peninsula.
Yet, all the guest from these countries will get amnesty for over-staying their VISA’s...
Is Ted Cruz planning to visit?
neologism?
You need a crash course in some good Korean Music Cripple.
Lets Start with this:
Can’t really go wrong with SNSD I guess
Wonder Girls
“Like This”
It took 9 months and hundreds of extra’s to make it look spontaneous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YNvPnGcuM
I also like T-ara and a bunch of others.
Heck I even like Baek Ji-Young
lol.
I saw the 2NE1 ‘reality show’ and they were all so childish,
lol.
Nothing wrong with liking T-ara, I am partial myself :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShVRP09NCO4"
All "reality shows" are anything but.
Even 2NE1.
Park Bom said it wasn’t going to be too real at the start because Minzy liked to run around naked.
lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5eu11WQbs
How quickly we turned into the sole superpower in the world to a bunch of whiny bitches.
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