" ... "The U.S. Embassy in San'a is closed today, January 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula ... to attack American interests in Yemen," the embassy said in a brief message on its Web site. The message did not say how long the embassy, which has been assaulted and threatened several times in the past decade, would remain closed.“There are indications that Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula is targeting our embassy and targeting our personnel. We’re not going to take any chance with the lives of diplomats,” White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser John Brennan said on “Fox News Sunday.”The British government joined the United States in closing its embassy in Yemen on Sunday, AP reports. Shutting an embassy is a rare and dire step, dramatizing the Arab nation's position as one of the world's premier terrorist havens.The closures came a day after Gen. David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, made a surprise visit to the country on Saturday, where he reportedly met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh....."
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