| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/08/02, 7:20 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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US embassies that would normally be open on Sunday – including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad and Cairo – will close for the day because of unspecified security concerns, the State Department said on Thursday.
CBS reported that the embassy closings were tied to US intelligence about an al-Qaida plot against diplomatic posts in the Middle East and other Muslim countries. CBS said the intelligence did not mention a specific location.
"The Department of State has instructed certain US embassies and consulates to remain closed or to suspend operations on Sunday, August 4th," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told
reporters at her daily briefing. "Security considerations have led us to take this precautionary step."
Harf declined to detail the "security considerations" or name the embassies and consulates that
would be closed, but a senior State Department official told reporters later they were those that would normally have been open on Sunday.
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