Turkish far-left group claims responsibility for US Embassy attack
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The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, according to a statement on a website linked to the group, news agencies reported.
“Our action is for the independence of our country, which has become a new slave of America,” the statement reportedly said.
We need a new scale: On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, which marks off the city’s air quality based on a 0-500 scale set by the EPA, detected air quality so bad that the Twitter account that updates people on the embassy’s air quality detection spat out a 755. 500 was supposed to be the maximum, by the way.
In Sanaa, several thousand Yemeni protesters demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy, with some penetrating the building’s security wall.
“Given recent regional developments, earlier this morning, angry protesters unfortunately flooded the security perimeter of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen and breached the embassy’s wall,” according to a statement released by Yemen through its embassy in Washington.
“Security services have quickly restored order to the embassy’s complex. Fortunately no casualties were reported from this chaotic incident.”
The U.S. State Department has requested that any Americans still in Yemen depart at first convenience.
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China pledged to guarantee my constitutional rights and called me a free man. I want them to keep their commitment by allowing me to travel abroad to recuperate. I want to go to the United States and rest for a while, since I haven’t had a Sunday in seven years.Chen Guangcheng • Speaking over speakerphone from his Beijing hospital room to U.S. Congressional commission members. As we pointed out earlier, Chen wants to leave for the U.S. But something about this quote grabbed us — specifically the “I haven’t had a Sunday in seven years” — so we just had to share it. This man — the center of so much controversy in recent days, along with years of personal turmoil — is endlessly quotable.
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A foregone conclusion? With a quickly-deteriorating situation in the country, the U.S. will reportedly shut its doors in the country by the end of the month, removing diplomats as soon as it can. “The security situation across Syria, which is deteriorating with each day that Assad clings to power,” an official claimed, “demonstrates further that Assad is losing control of the country and reinforces our point that Assad has lost all legitimacy.” Perhaps this is a move whose time has come: The U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, has not had a fun go of it in the country, finding himself targeted by pro-Assad activists on multiple occasions.
The U.S. Embassy continues to urge U.S. citizens in Syria to depart immediately while commercial transportation is available. The number of airlines serving Syria has decreased significantly since the summer, while many of those airlines remaining have reduced their number of flights. Please take this opportunity to review our most recent Travel Warning for Syria.
So yes, if you’re still there, leave.
There was reportedly a $5 million bounty on his head. Mohammed, the main suspect in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings which killed more than 220 and injured over 5,000, was reportedly killed in Somalia on Wednesday. “We have received that communication from authorities in Somalia. We have been told that there were two terrorists who were killed in Somalia on Wednesday last week,” said Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed the death, saying it was a “just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents.” The 38-year-old was reportedly in charge of al-Qaeda’s operations for the entirety of East Africa, so this was kind of a big one. Actually, you know what? This year has been full of huge losses for al-Qaeda. source
Video of the day: The Obamamobile gets stuck on a wedge of the U.S. Embassy in Dublin. Yes, this really happened. (via BreakingNews)
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