US warns citizens to leave Yemen amid terror alert

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

A global travel alert issued on Tuesday said: "The US Department of State warns US citizens of the high security threat level in Yemen due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.

"The department urges US citizens to defer travel to Yemen and those US citizens currently living in Yemen to depart immediately."

It added that "the security threat level in Yemen is extremely high".

The BBC's Abdullah Ghorab, in Sanaa, says the Yemeni capital has been experiencing unprecedented security measures, with hundreds of armoured military vehicles deployed to secure the presidential palace, vital infrastructural buildings and Western embassies in the capital.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23585923

[darkangel218]

1. Damn..

Maybe this terror alert is real afterall.

[dipsydoodle]

2. UK has already repatriated the embassy staff

British diplomatic staff in Yemen have been withdrawn to the UK and the embassy closed "due to increased security concerns", the Foreign Office has said.

All the employees were moved to the UK overnight, a spokeswoman confirmed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23585616

[Bosonic]

3. US drone kills four Yemen jihadists

SANAA (AFP) — A US drone strike killed four Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen Tuesday, a tribal source said, amid heightened security across the Middle East against a possible major attack by the jihadists.

Those killed included one of 25 Al-Qaeda operatives listed late on Monday by the Yemeni authorities as among those plotting attacks to coincide with the ending of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan later this week, the source told AFP.

The raid in Yemen's eastern Marib province targeted their vehicle "and turned it into a ball of fire, immediately killing the four militants," the source said, adding that all those killed were Yemenis.

Yemen's official Saba news agency confirmed "the death of four Al-Qaeda militants in Wadi Abida in Marib."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jMa0ZKmDY7U_rQWP_H4OOi3ve4Dg?docId=CNG.20cf35b7c456c62bfc8c8c383e587245.11

[DCBob]

4. The Yemenis must not be reading DU.

Otherwise they would know this is just Obama faking an alert to justify spying on us.

[leftynyc]

5. Haven't you heard?

This was all done to silence Greenwald because he is obviously the center of the universe.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/greenwald-embassy-closings-looks-like-a-conspiracy-to-silence-nsa-debate/

snip

“Here we are in the midst of one the most intense debates and sustain debates that we’ve had in a very long time in this country over the dangers of excess surveillance, and suddenly an administration that has spent two claiming that it has decimated Al-Qaeda decides that there is this massive threat that involves the closing of embassies and consulates throughout the world,” Greenwald explained. “And within literally an amount of hours, the likes of Saxby Chambliss and Lindsey Graham join with the White House and Democrats in Congress — who, remember, are the leading defenders of the NSA at this point — to exploit that terrorist threat, and to insist that it shows that the NSA and these programs are necessary.”

[DCBob]

6. I wonder if Glenn will retract any of that..

when its confirmed this is the real deal.

[leftynyc]

7. Not a chance

Then it will be a false flag done specifically to make him look bad because he is the center of the universe.

[Amonester]

8. If all this happened anytime during the chimp's pRezidency, he would have been all for

it.

[frylock]

11. who would've been all for it?

[David Krout]

15. You mean the Yemeni government allied with the US govt?

Is that "the yemenis" or the total population there?

[geek tragedy]

9. is it ever safe for americans to be in Yemen?

Of course, the only Americans killed in Yemen over the past two years were killed by the American government . . .

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Somewhere Osama is laughing.

.
.
.

Killing Osama bin Laden did not change a thing.

Killing the next #1 or #2 won't change things.

Killing Saddam did not improve things.

USA needs a change of attitude.

THAT would improve things.

'nuff said.

CC

[Ghost Dog]

12. Gotta dig the zerohedge crowd's comments sometimes:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-06/us-evacuates-personnel-yemen-following-droning-four-al-qaeda-militants

buzzsaw99
egad

Element
I'll never get to sleep tonight, this is freaking me out.
If 4 Taliban attack Kabul ... do they like all pack-up and piss-off as well?

buzzsaw99
the usa kills whomever they want wherever they want whenever they want these days. i feel so much safer now.

Element
I think they do a marvelous job of protecting our way of life.

kaiserhoff
Are we at war with Yemen, or is Barry just murdering a few rug heads because he is bored? What a crock of shit. How long until this random butchering creates some real terrorism?

BaBaBouy
BARRACK HUSSEIN, Showing Off His NOBEL Peace Monger Badge Again...

francis_sawyer
"Are we at war with Yemen, or is Barry just murdering a few rug heads because he is bored?"
~~~
My wild guess is that they just discovered a huge oil reserve under Yemen that is surrounded by a 3 foot thick wall of gold which fertilizes poppy fields up on the surface...
Barry is going on Leno tonight to tell us why we all have to be 'vigilant' about this or else some scary Yemeni terrirists will come steal your free healthcare, & make you say prayers 5 times a day to an "evil" God [instead of the one true God "Moloch", which despite being an ALL POWERFUL GOD, needs the help of THE UNITED STATES & ISRAELI GOVERNMENT, or else he is doomed]...

Xibalba
What a global bully the US has become. Let the people of the planet live in PEACE.

Doubleguns
The bully is not the US. Look closer.

francis_sawyer
Well ~ 'Bohemian Grove 2013' just ended last week (so maybe this was all they could come up with at the moment)...

[denverbill]

13. I don't get this.

The US government is all concerned about Snowden leaking their classified program to the press and how it might hinder their ability to infiltrate terror plots.

But the New York Times reports that the US intercepted electronic communications between al-Zawahri and the leader of al Quaida in Yemen, and that DOESN'T jeopardize anything?

I also don't get why I can't copy and paste anything from the New York Times anymore, but that's another story.

[bettyellen]

14. but the US Govt is not the official source of the details in the NYT piece...

it cites anonymous officials. The details given BBC were from Yemeni sources.

"Both the White House and the US state department have said the current threat comes from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), but have refused to divulge further details."

[denverbill]

17. Go to the article, and then to the link to the New York Times inside the article.

www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/world/middleeast/qaeda-chiefs-order-to-yemen-affiliate-said-to-prompt-alert.html?hp&_r=1&

I can't copy and paste the link for some reason, but I tried retyping it above.

The NYT article makes it pretty clear this was coming from an American official. Maybe I missing something, but it sounded to me like an American official leaked this to the press, but the NYT agreed not to name names, and then McClathy named names, so the NYT did as well.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

16. Damn.

Guess I'll have to cancel vacation this year.

[christx30]

18. Iran or North Korea are much nicer this time of year.

and if you do my special "sneaky" vacation (for only $500 per person), you don't even need an entrance visa! It's a win/win!

[ForgoTheConsequence]

19. Do I have to swallow a balloon?

I'm not falling for that again!