Intercepted the "base" organization of communication between the leaders of a broader intelligence, threat alerts prompted pool, ending in the Middle East and Africa, many of the U.S. Embassy as an integral part of the U.S. sources said on Monday.
The New York Times reported that the closure of the embassies was the result of intercepted electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahri, who replaced Osama bin Laden as head of al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the head of Yemen-based affiliate al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Sources said the United States has recently been intercepted, while al-Zawahiri and between AQAP some type of news and other information streams, contributed by the AQAP threat security alerts, tips.
"Threat of an image is based on extensive reporting, there is no conclusive evidence, in the picture of this threat," a U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity reporters.
U.S. officials said that at present there is not a specific target or location information of a potential attack, but did not reduce the threat to Western interests.
Now as a serious threat, because it is the last Friday, the U.S. State Department issued a worldwide travel alert, on behalf of the Dutch Ruppersberger, said the House Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee.
"This is a very serious threat," Ruppersberger told CNN. "I've seen the intelligence, which is a threat from the" base "organization at the highest level, especially concentrated in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and similar areas."
ABC News reported on Monday, a senior U.S. official said the authorities "frantically looking for" car bomb "base" organization want to use blow up the U.S. embassy in Yemen and possibly other embassies.
Yemen lists 25 'most wanted terrorists
Yemeni Embassy in Washington issued a statement listing 25 "most wanted terrorists," it said, plans to conduct business in the capital Sanaa, and said that the information it provides, leading to its capture reward.
, "The statement said:" The Yemeni government has taken all necessary precautions to ensure that the diplomatic facilities, important facilities and strategic assets.
Paul Pillar, former senior CIA analyst said that it would take more than a U.S. "base" organization of communication between the leaders, to take such positive action closing $ 19 a week of diplomatic posts.
"Rolling Wa Heli fact, will send such a message, I'm not surprised," pillar said.
"Analysts standard procedure is not to bet the farm on any one Intel, even if we have no doubt that this is al-Zawahiri's message which pieced together the impact of different reports, combined with the threat of reach judgments level. "
U.S. sources and analysts warned that al-Qaida and its affiliates does not necessarily mean that the communication between the Arabian Peninsula al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda to take orders.
"This shows that the" base "organization's core is still running a global terror machine. Said:" This is a complex picture, a former CIA official Bruce Riedel, who is now at the Brookings Institution in Washington indicating intelligence projects.
"Zawahri not always get what his purpose is, but as bin Laden's successor is still undisputed," he said.
Daniel Benjamin, who is now at Dartmouth College's former State Department counterterrorism official said, "base" organization branch in Yemen is a "worrisome threat", because it has a "genius bombmakers" like fast-moving, And do not spend as much time plotting attacks broader al-Qaeda.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said, while the "base" organization's core has been weakened, the Union organizations, especially the "base" organization in the Arabian Peninsula, has been strengthened. "We have here in Washington AQAP identified as particularly dangerous threat for some time," he said.
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