U.S. Americans on Friday issued an extraordinary global travel warning, the "base" organization attacked the threat, and close 21 embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world weekend.
Since before the announcement of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the tenth anniversary of the alarm precedent. This one comes with from last September 11 deadly attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts, Benghazi, Libya, and with the Obama administration and Congress decided the U.S. embassy or consulate in order to prevent any similar breach of the scars are still fresh.
"Is a major threat to streams and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said," We reactions. He told ABC News in an interview aired Sunday threat than the previous "more specific", "intention is to attack the West, rather than American interests."
State Department warning urging U.S. overseas visitors to take extra precautions on the grounds that relate to public transportation systems and other major sites for tourists and potentially dangerous, and that the terrorist attacks in the past have focused on the subway and rail networks, as well as aircraft and boats. Passengers are advised to sign the State Department and the U.S. Consulate alerts registered in their country visits.
The statement said that al-Qaida or its allies may be either the U.S. government or the United States private interests as the goal. Alert August 31 expires.
The State Department said terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa, the potential is particularly prominent, from the Arabian Peninsula occurred or is about to possible attacks.
U.S. officials say al-Qaeda in Yemen in particular the most dangerous offshoot and several notable terrorist plot against the United States accused the network of family, from intercepted foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort, to the Detroit airliner bomb filled with explosives wrapped The following year aboard cargo flights.
"The current data indicate that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks in the region and beyond, and they may focus on now and the end of August during the effort to attack, a department statement said."
Alert issued the day before, the United States announced it would close many diplomatic facilities (Sunday). Spokesman 玛丽哈尔夫 Sophie said the department is out of a rich "prudent", some tasks may continue to pause longer than a day. Sunday is a business day, in Muslim countries, the affected diplomatic offices in Afghanistan from northwest Africa Mauritania stretch.
"I do not know if I can say that a particular threat," said House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, listening to the State Council's decision. "There are potential concerns about violence."
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Although the warning coincides with the "Al-Quds Day", the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Iran and some Arab countries expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people and Israel's opposition, U.S. officials played down any connection. They said, not for a specific threat to U.S. diplomatic facilities.
Al Qaeda in Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. officials concern is not new terrorist branch gains in territory and long-term coverage in Yemen Arab Spring "related instability.
The team has made significant territorial gains in Yemen last year, ending a long-term capital leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign in a power struggle, captured in the southern towns and cities. A US-funded counterattack pushed by the government since the militants.
Yemen incumbent President Abdou Mansour Hadi, Rabby met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House last Thursday, cited strong anti-terrorism cooperation between the leaders. Earlier this week, Yemen's military report, the U.S. drone strike killed six suspected "base" Qaeda militants in the southern stronghold.
Last June, the group's commander Qasim people in the United States, Arabic video release urging attacks targeting the U.S., and praise to carry out ethnic Chechen brothers accused of the Boston Marathon explosion. "These bombs have become everyone's ... to achieve," he said, according to the U.S. private intelligence company IntelCenter English subtitles video, posted.
In the anti-terrorism expert Rand Seth Jones said: "will appear flashing red intelligence pointing to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula episode," referring to is called AQAP "base" organization branch.
Britain has also taken action Friday in Yemen, announced that it would close its embassy on Sunday and Monday, as a preventive measure.
England, in close coordination with Washington intelligence matters, stop releasing a similar region-wide alert, but added that some of the embassy staff have been withdrawn in Yemen, "for security reasons." British embassies and consulates elsewhere in the Middle East remain open.
R - California Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the threat of the embassy and the "base" organization and on the Middle East and Central Asia.
"In this case, we can take a step to better protect our staff and a rich cautious, we should," Royce said. He refused to say if the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance program helps reveal threats.
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The New York Times "reported that U.S. officials said the United States has intercepted electronic communications senior operatives" base "organizations Friday night.
Maryland Rep. CA Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat House Intelligence panel, also supports the department's decision to go public concerns.
"We have to do the most important thing is to protect American lives," he said, "is not a regular chatter" would-be militants elsewhere on the Internet or pick up the description of the threat.
The State Council also issued a warning a year ago September 11 anniversary connected to the potential of violence. U.S. installed dozens of anti-Islamic protest was besieged by American residents reported the video, and in Benghazi, Libya, the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed when militants attacked the diplomatic post.
Management is no longer that the demonstrations in Benghazi. But attacks continue to work with congressional Republicans said Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other government misled the nature of the country after the attack, failed to provide adequate diplomatic protection was a flashpoint dispute.
 



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