State Department issues worldwide travel alert because of al-Qaida threat

[longtallcold]

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/nation...dwide-travel-alert-because-of-al-qaida-threat

not much to snip

 

[longtallcold]

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/national/us-issues-global-travel-alert-over-al-qaida-threat

The State Department says the potential for terrorism is particularly strong in the Middle East and North Africa. It says an attack could occur or come from the Arabian Peninsula

The travel alert comes a day after the U.S. announced that it would shutter its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday, and possibly longer.

 

[longtallcold]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-07/25/c_132573919.htm

The global police organization Interpol has issued an international alert over a mass of breakout from two Iraqi prisons recently, in which many al-Qaida members managed to escape.

 

[Kensie]

How scary. Glad my son came home from London last Friday.

 

[chicoliving]

State Department to keep some embassies closed, as lawmakers say terror threat 'specific’ and ‘serious'

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...anything-heard-since-before-11/#ixzz2b2w4wBlo

 

[nursebeeme]

Just heard on npr they could be closed for a week!

 

[Elley Mae]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d30-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html?hpid=z1

Neither the location nor the target of a potential attack is known, “but the intent seems clear,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on ABC’s “This Week”: “The intent is to attack Western, not just U.S., interests.”

The warnings of a possible terrorist plot come at an opportune time for the National Security Agency, which has recently come under fire after the disclosure of surveillance programs that critics say threaten the privacy of millions of U.S. citizens.

:fence:

The sentence below is a perfect example of what politicians are so wonderful at. bbm, It says absolutely nothing to me. No matter what they do, are doing, are going to do the answer will fit every time.

“I’m a Republican. I’ve had problems with the administration on different issues,” he said. “But what they are doing now is what has to be done.”

jmo

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/world/us-extends-closing-of-some-diplomatic-posts.html?ref=us&_r=0

In the days immediately after the N.S.A. revelations began, some American officials warned that terrorist leaders had already changed their communication methods and patterns of as a result of the exposure the revelations had brought. But the N.S.A.’s ability to intercept the recent discussions about plots seems to indicate that American spy agencies have not been hindered as much as some have asserted.

 

[Jovi Girl]

We have friends who are in Cyprus , on a visit. Hope they can get home ok.