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US Embassies to Close Sunday Amid Terrorist Threat
ABC News ^ | Thursday, August 1, 2013 | Martha Raddatz, Dana Hughes and Chris Good

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; algeria; alqaeda; bahrain; bangladesh; benghazi; bhostatedept; dubai; egypt; embassies; embassy; genocide; iraq; jordan; kuwait; libya; muslimworld; navyseals; obamasfault; oman; qatar; saudiarabia; soskerry; threatmatrix; unitedarabemirates; usembassy; waronterror; yemen
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To: GeronL

What was that?


21 posted on 08/01/2013 4:41:30 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

lol.

A Korean band named BIG BANG and their song “Fantastic Baby”.

Sounds like 3 different songs crammed together to me


22 posted on 08/01/2013 4:43:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: kristinn

It is sooo wonderful everybody Loves and respect us now. I feel so good and safe.


23 posted on 08/01/2013 4:55:06 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: kristinn

You can’t make this sheite up!


24 posted on 08/01/2013 4:55:21 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: kristinn

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.


25 posted on 08/01/2013 4:56:00 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Grampa Dave

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.


26 posted on 08/01/2013 5:04:06 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: kristinn

Well, Benghzi was a jihadi-party with no consequences, so why not spread around the fun?


27 posted on 08/01/2013 5:20:07 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: SueRae; kristinn
Is Ramadan over? Ramadan ends with the next new moon, 2205 hrs EDT August 6.

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.

28 posted on 08/01/2013 5:27:11 PM PDT by lightman (Prosecute the heresies; pity the heretics.)
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To: kristinn

Yet, all the guest from these countries will get amnesty for over-staying their VISA’s...


29 posted on 08/01/2013 5:31:57 PM PDT by Son House (The Heath Care Recovery Never Gets Here, Like The Economic Recovery, Easily Predictable.)
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To: kristinn

Is Ted Cruz planning to visit?


30 posted on 08/01/2013 6:04:34 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: tumblindice

neologism?


31 posted on 08/01/2013 6:12:13 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: GeronL; GraceG; cripplecreek
Tsk Tsk Tsk

You need a crash course in some good Korean Music Cripple.

Lets Start with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXZWudcVzEg


32 posted on 08/01/2013 7:00:58 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

Can’t really go wrong with SNSD I guess


33 posted on 08/01/2013 7:15:51 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL
Would you prefer 2NE1 Geron? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o

34 posted on 08/01/2013 7:21:14 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

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


35 posted on 08/01/2013 7:21:54 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: KC_Lion

I also like T-ara and a bunch of others.

Heck I even like Baek Ji-Young


36 posted on 08/01/2013 7:22:48 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: KC_Lion

lol.

I saw the 2NE1 ‘reality show’ and they were all so childish,
lol.


37 posted on 08/01/2013 7:24:31 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL
Lols, I bet The Producers of Wonder Girls held on to their check books after that music shoot. It must have gotten expensive!

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.

38 posted on 08/01/2013 7:27:50 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

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


39 posted on 08/01/2013 7:30:03 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: All

How quickly we turned into the sole superpower in the world to a bunch of whiny bitches.


40 posted on 08/01/2013 7:32:56 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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