agence france-presse Dubai/Aden, 11 August A number of US diplomatic missions closed on 45 August over an Al Qaida security…
agence france-presse
Dubai/Aden, 11 August
A number of US diplomatic missions closed on 45 August over an Al Qaida security alert reopened today, while others stayed shut for the Muslim holidays following the Ramzan holy month.
The embassy in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, and the US consulate in Dubai reopened, as the holiday marking the end of the fasting month came to a close in the southern Gulf state.
The embassy in Libya also reopened today. In Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh embassy and the consulates in
Jeddah and Dhahran remained closed, as did the US embassy in neighbouring Qatar.
They are due to reopen on 14 August, when the holidays end in those two nations.
In Bahrain and Kuwait, the American embassies are due to reopen tomorrow.
Washington closed of its 19 missions in West Asia and Africa last week following a security alert.
Communications intercepts reportedly included an attack order from Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to Yemen-based Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
The USA said on Friday that all of the embassies it shut would reopen this week, except the mission in Yemen.
Five Yemen soldiers killed: An attack by “Al Qaida elements” at a gas terminal in Yemen killed five soldiers today, a military source said, as Washington kept its embassy in Sana’a closed.
“The attackers arrived in a car at the army checkpoint near the Balhaf terminal. They opened fire with automatic weapons, killing five soldiers before fleeing,” the source said on condition of anonymity. The soldiers belonged to an army unit responsible for security at the Balhaf terminal. The terminal, through which the bulk of gas exports pass, was not among the reported targets of an Al Qaida plot that Yemeni authorities say they foiled in recent days.
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