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The State Division prolonged this weekend’s terror alert until August 10, maintaining nineteen embassies closed for the week, as lawmakers referred to a “large operation” that will hyperlink again to the present chief of al Qaeda.
That the danger got here from an intercepted message among senior al Qaeda members has been recognized for a few days, however more important points have no longer been released. On the other hand, in keeping with Reuters, “the U.S. alert followed a renewed warning from al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to take revenge for U.S. drone assaults on its fighters and imprisonment of Islamist militants in Guantanamo.” On Friday, al-Zawahiri, the present chief of al Qaeda, accused the U.S. of orchestrating former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster.
On CBS Sunday morning, Representative Mike McCaul stated the chance was “explicit and credible.”
Out of an “abundance of caution,” the State Department mentioned on its web site Sunday that it could preserve a couple of embassies closed for the week. “This is not a sign of a brand new threat flow, simply a sign of our commitment to exercise caution and take applicable steps to offer protection to our staff together with local workers and visitors to our facilities,” the discharge said.
Twenty-two embassies have already been closed for the weekend following the alert, which got here as a result of the intercepted threat, on prime of the confluence of the date with the end of Ramadan and the contemporary prison breaks of al Qaeda individuals.
