The U.S. will temporarily shut down all of its embassies in the Middle
East (and some in Asia) on Sunday in response to a possible threat
connected to al-Qaeda, NBC News is reporting. They're not specifying which embassies will be closed, or how many.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told NBC that the decision came after the U.S. was "apprised of information that out of an abundance of caution and care for our employees and others who may be visiting our installations, that indicates we should institute these precautionary steps," but didn't provide much more on the closures beyond that. The decision to close might be extended beyond Sunday, depending on what the department knows about the continuing threat. Here's what an unnamed official at the department said to the network about the closures:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/08/al-qaeda-linked-threat-prompts-us-close-embassies-middle-east-sunday/67899/
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told NBC that the decision came after the U.S. was "apprised of information that out of an abundance of caution and care for our employees and others who may be visiting our installations, that indicates we should institute these precautionary steps," but didn't provide much more on the closures beyond that. The decision to close might be extended beyond Sunday, depending on what the department knows about the continuing threat. Here's what an unnamed official at the department said to the network about the closures:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/08/al-qaeda-linked-threat-prompts-us-close-embassies-middle-east-sunday/67899/
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