The State Department has announced that it will keep several embassies in the Middle East and Africa closed throughout the week "out of an abundance of caution" in the wake of terror threats that shut them down.
Posts in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Riyadh, Dhahran, Jeddah, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Sanaa, Tripoli, Antanarivo, Bujumbura, Djibouti, Khartoum, Kigali and Port Louis have been instructed to close for normal operations from Monday through Saturday, department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
The State Department also said some of those embassies were already going to be closed in accordance with local customs marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Those authorized to reopen Monday are in Dhaka, Algiers, Nouakchott, Kabul, Herat, Mazar el Sharif, Baghdad, Basrah and Erbil.
Capitol Hill lawmakers, including top-ranking members of intelligence committees, on Sunday described the terror threat that closed 22 U.S. embassies and consulates across the Muslim region as the most serious one since before the 9/11 attacks and related to specific act or plot.
Comment: Kristol, as usual, is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. He wishes to criticise Obama from the far-right by insinuating that he's 'losing the War on Terror'.
But Kristol knows full well that the 'War in Terror' is never meant to be 'won'. The purpose of these 'travel alerts' is to cement fear and paranoia back home in the U.S.