U.S. Embassy closed one week extension in the Middle East and Africa region, "base" organization threat, the U.S. lawmakers say the worst few years later, on Sunday, as a precaution.
The State Department said 19 U.S. embassies and consulates will be closed until Saturday a rich cautious ", some of which have been closed anyway, most of the week, to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
U.S. initially shut down 21 U.S. diplomatic posts of the day on Sunday. Some of which will reopen on Monday, including Kabul, Baghdad and Algiers.
Four new diplomatic posts - in Madagascar, Burundi, Rwanda and Mauritius - increased off the list of the week.
Last week, the State Department issued a global travel alert, warning Americans that the "base" organization may be planning attacks in August, especially in the Middle East and North Africa.
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss said: "There is an awful lot of chatter out there," on NBC's "Meet the Press."
He said, "chatter" - communications between terrorist suspects a possible attack planning - "is very reminiscent of what we see 911 before."
Chambliss said that a National Security Agency's monitoring procedures to electronically collect phone and e-mail communications - known as interceptors - to help gather information about this threat intelligence.
This is a former spy agency contractor Edward Snowdon media revealed the NSA surveillance program.
These programs enable us to collect these chatter, "Chambliss said." If we do not have these programs, then we can not listen to the bad guys. "
"A serious threat"
Chambliss said: "This is the most serious threat that I've seen in the past few years,."
U.S. forces in the Middle East region has a higher state of alert because of the threat of the past few days, the U.S. official on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
Threats prompted some European countries to close its in Yemen "base" organization branch, is considered one of the most dangerous: the "base" Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula embassy.
Around the United States and the British Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen, soldiers blocked the road, but with an automatic rifle troops standing outside the French Embassy.
Interpol headquarters in France, the international police agency, on Saturday issued a global security alert, recommended that member countries Iraq, Libya and Pakistan after a series of prison break to increase attack vigilance.
"" Base "organization is in many ways than before 9/11, because of its mutation and it spread and it can come to us from different directions, U.S. Representative Peter King, a Republican, said in the ABC" This Week. "
"He said:" in the Arabian Peninsula "base" organization is probably the most deadly of the "base" organization branch.
Republicans and Democrats are in the Sunday television talk shows, said the threat was serious, and seek to resolve the NSA surveillance program, which critics say is a violation of privacy and civil rights debate.
"The good news is that we pick up the intelligence, which is what we do, this is the NSA doing," on behalf of the Dutch Ruppersberger, senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on ABC's "This Week."
"We have received information from the" base "Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula high-level people are talking about a major attack," he said.
Threat information, come before the end of Ramadan, the Muslim Eid al-Fitr celebration later this week, just over a month before the anniversary of the "base" organization of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
September 11 attacks last year killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (Lindsey Graham) on CNN's "State of the Union," said the embassy closed, and issued worldwide travel alert actions that the Obama administration has learned a lesson from Benghazi.
"Benghazi is a complete failure of the threat is real report is true, and we basically gave up the ball, we have learned from Benghazi, thank God, and the government is right to do so," he said. "
 



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