If anybody is interested on the reason we had to shut down over 20 embassies in the Middle East and North Africa, here is a report from NBC News.
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/05/19879300-al-qaeda-leaders-wanted-to-do-something-big-on-muslim-holiday-sources-say?lite
By the way, all of our embassies in Europe, Latin America, and the Far East are open and doing just fine.
The American embassy in Israel opened on Monday as well. The only one in the Middle East, as far as I know.
ReplyDeleteThey would have liked to pull off an attack on Sunday, but any time during Ramadan will do -- in the opinion of the ummah -- because it would "establish" Islamic supremacy during their "holy" season.
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