U.S. Embassy in Manila closed due to `plausible threat'
The U.S. Embassy in Manila closed to the public on Tuesday after receiving "plausible threat information," the embassy said in a statement.
The statement, posted on its Web site, did not elaborate. It said the embassy would resume all public operations, including visa operations, "when deemed appropriate."
Manila Radio DZMM reported that police operatives were inside the embassy compound along Manila Bay after a bomb threat Monday night, but officials did not comment immediately.
"The threat we received we felt was plausible enough to merit closing temporarily services to the public," embassy spokesman Matthew Lussenhop told Radio DZMM. (snip)
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=96901
Thanks Velveeta for the Manila threat info.
Thanks to F15 Eagle for the ping to the following
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RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER CONFIRMS MISSILES SALE TO IRAN
International Herald Tribune ^ | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2005 | The Associated Press
Posted on 12/05/2005 1:46:44 PM PST by twinself
Russia has struck a deal to provide Iran with short-range, surface-to-air missiles, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday. He defended the deal, saying that the weapons system was purely defensive.
Russian media reported Friday that Russian and Iranian officials had signed various weapons contracts in November worth a billion dollars (?850 million) that would send up to 30 Tor-M1 missile systems to Iran over the next two years.
''A contract for the delivery of air defense Tor missile systems to Iran has indeed been signed,'' Ivanov said in comments broadcast by the state channel Rossiya, without giving further details.
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