{"id":36913,"date":"2013-08-02T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36913"},"modified":"2013-08-02T07:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:44:28","slug":"us-embassies-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36913","title":{"rendered":"US Embassies to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/08\/02\/us-to-shut-down-american-embassies-around-world-as-terror-threats-grow\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that most of the US embassies in the Arab Crescent will be closed on Sunday. It&#8217;s no big loss really, I mean how much business could they be doing these days anyway? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have instructed all U.S. embassies and consulates that would have normally been open on Sunday to suspend operations, specifically on August 4,\u201d a senior State Department official said Thursday night. \u201cIt is possible we may have additional days of closing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other U.S. officials said the threat was specifically in the Muslim world. <\/p>\n<p>The issue of security abroad has been prominent since the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, and a string of demonstrations on other U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North Africa. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re putting the safety of Americans ahead of everything, but, apparently the unspecified threats are coming from that &#8220;decimated&#8221; al Qaeda. Well, it was decimated before the elections last year, and now it&#8217;s not so decimated. About 750 prisoners were freed in Iraq and Pakistan this week by al Qaeda and now we&#8217;re tucking in our tails because of an al Qaeda threat. Maybe this drone strategy isn&#8217;t working as well as we&#8217;ve been told. Think? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that most of the US embassies in the Arab Crescent will be closed &hellip; <a title=\"US Embassies to close\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36913\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Embassies to close<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}