Washington – US Posts In 19 Countries Will Remain Closed Until Aug. 10

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    A Bahraini armored personnel vehicle and personnel reinforce U.S. Embassy security just outside of a gate to the building, surrounded in barbed wire, in Manama, Bahrain, on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack.  (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)Washington – The State Department says U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 countries in the Muslim world will be closed through Saturday “out of an abundance of caution.”

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    State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki (SAH’-kee) says the decision to keep the embassies and consulates closed is “not an indication of a new threat.”

    Diplomatic facilities will remain closed in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, among other countries.

    The Obama administration announced Friday that the posts would be closed over the weekend and the State Department announced a global travel alert, warning that al-Qaida or its allies might target either U.S. government or private American interests.

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    Yaakov2
    Yaakov2
    12 years ago

    State Department says U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 countries “in the Muslim” world will be closed through Saturday .

    They finally got it right. It was slip of tongue. They said the undiplomatic truth – the “M” word.

    What a most friendly civilised religion!

    At last no one is concerned with “racial profiling” and using the word “Muslim”, to describe the profiling.

    BarryLS1
    BarryLS1
    12 years ago

    But the U.S. will never put 2 and 2 together, that every time they do something to harm Israel, there are consequences that comes back to bite them. Hashem is speaking, people aren’t listening.