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SNIPPET: "Azerbaijan has arrested 22 people on suspicion of plotting attacks on the US and Israeli embassies in Baku on behalf of neighbouring Iran, the national security ministry said Wednesday." SNIPPET: ""On orders of the Sepah they were to commit terrorist acts against the US, Israeli and other Western states' embassies and the embassies' employees," it said. The ministry said that the suspects were recruited from 1999 onwards and trained in the use of weapons and spy techniques at military camps in Iran to enable them to gather information on foreign embassies, organisations and companies in Azerbaijan and stage attacks,...

22 arrested in Azerbaijan in plot on US, Israeli embassies Published March 14, 2012 | FoxNews.com Officials in Azerbaijan have arrested 22 people suspected of plotting attacks on the American and Israeli embassies in the capital Baku, the Agence France Presse is reporting. The plot was reportedly on behalf of Azerbaijan’s neighbor, Iran, according to the national security ministry. "Twenty-two citizens of Azerbaijan have been arrested by the national security ministry for cooperating with the Iranian Sepah," the ministry said, referring to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, according to AFP. "On orders of the Sepah, they were to commit terrorist acts...

Four Israeli embassies and consulates have been temporarily shut down due to a mounting terror threat, according to foreign press. Turkish newspaper Hurriet reported that the Israeli embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Istanbul are among the diplomatic missions that have shut their doors. The Counter-Terror Bureau has cited, in recent days, a growing threat of the imminent execution of terror attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets abroad, with emphases on Egypt, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania and Venezuela. The Bureau urges Israelis traveling to these countries to avoid places where there are concentrations of Israelis, and...

Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, it will be reported on Tuesday (in the NY TIMES)... MORE... A senior U.S. intelligence official denied the warning was received...

Here is a video report on the news that the United States and Great Britain have closed their embassies in Yemen in response to terror threats from Al-Qaeda: The US and Britain have shut their Yemen embassies after threats from an al-Qaeda offshoot linked to an alleged failed US plane bomb plot. The UK Foreign Office told the BBC its embassy in the capital Sanaa was closed "for security reasons", hours after the US announced its mission had been shut. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier said the UK and US would step up counter-terror efforts in Yemen. There are...

SNIPPET: "The leader of the al Qaeda-linked Chinese terror group has threatened to attack Chinese interests around the world to avenge the death of Uighurs in the eastern province of Xianjiang. Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, threatened to attack Chinese embassies worldwide as well as targets within the country. Haq made his threats on a video that was released on an Islamist Internet site." SNIPPET: "Haq, who is also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti, became the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in late 2003 after Hassan Mahsum, the group’s previous leader, was...

I saw this article and found it rather alarming (particularly, starting around paragraph 7). I was wondering what people think about this. Is the author being overly paranoid, or does it look like it's realistic? Here's the paragraphs in question: In its current issue, HSL reports rumors that "Some U.S. embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year. Some embassies are being sent enormous amounts of U.S. cash to purchase currencies from those governments, quietly. But not pound sterling. Inside the State Dept., there is a sense of sadness and...

A China-based cyber spy network has hacked into government and private systems in 103 countries, including those of many Indian embassies and the Dalai Lama, an Internet research group said here Saturday. The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which carried out an extensive 10-month research on cyber spy activities emanating from China, said the hacked systems include the computers of Indian embassies and offices of the Dalai Lama.

Yet another embassy web site is falling victim into a malware attack serving Adobe exploits to its visitors. As of last Friday, the official web site of the Embassy of Portugal in India has been compromised (embportindia.co.in). Who's behind the attack? Interestingly, that's the very same group that compromised the Azerbaijanian Embassies in Pakistan and Hungary earlier this month. Assessing this campaign once again establishes a direct connection with the Rusian Business Network's pre-shutdown netblocks and static locations.

The very latest addition to the "Compromised International Embassies Series" are the Hungarian and Pakistani embassies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which are currently iFramed with exploits-serving domains.

Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Continued Threats, Yemen CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Middle East / N. Africa - Yemen 8 Dec 2008 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 18 Sep 2008 WARDEN MESSAGE: YEMEN AUTHORIZED DEPARTURE 17 Sep 2008 U.S. EMBASSY SANA'A ATTACKED 17 Sep 2008 WARDEN MESSAGE: U.S. EMBASSY SANA'A ATTACK 17 Sep 2008 TRAVEL WARNING: YEMEN 17 Sep 2008 U.S. EMBASSY SANA'A ATTACKED U.S. Embassy Sana'a released the following Warden Message on December 8: The U.S. Embassy continues to receive threats against embassies,...

At the moment, foreign teachers in China have relatively little options if they are cheated or need help. Sure. There are plenty of American consulates sprinkled around here but unless there is a war or a tidal wave in the area, American consulates and embassies in China are as about as useful as an expired visa. The Chinese government for their part mainly adheres to an attitude of "teach here at your own risk" and its attempts to weed out bad schools and programs in China have been weak at best. In short, there is little recourse available for foreign...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Danish Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it has evacuated its staff from embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan because of threats after newspapers reprinted a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Embassy employees have been moved to secret locations in both countries' capitals but continue to work, Foreign Ministry spokesman Erik Laursen said. The announcement comes after Danish intelligence officials warned of an "aggravated" terror threat against Denmark since newspapers in the country in February of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The warning specifically singled out North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The threat...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Serbia has asked the State Department to evacuate some diplomats from the embassy in Belgrade following an attack on the compound. The envoy, Cameron Munter, has asked the department to implement an "ordered departure" for all nonessential personnel and the dependents of all American staff at the embassy, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. He said the request was being reviewed but that it would "likely be approved" on Friday. There are between 80 and 100 Americans who work at the embassy but it was not clear how many of them or how...

CAIRO, Egypt - An American member of al-Qaida threatened foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world in a new video Sunday, saying they would targeted as "spy dens." The 1 hour, 17 minute video also featured a computer-animated recreation of a March 2006 suicide attack that killed U.S. diplomat David Foy in Karachi, Pakistan, and testimony from a man who claimed to be the bomber. "We shall continue to target you, at home and abroad, just as you target us, at home and abroad, and these spy dens and military command and control centers from which you plotted your...

Amir Mizroch, THE JERUSALEM POST Several foreign embassies in Teheran are updating their emergency evacuation plans should a Western or Israeli attack on Iran occur. According to foreign sources, foreign diplomats believe a possible attack would take place before the end of 2007. By that time, Iran might have enough enriched uranium to cause a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe from radioactive fallout should its nuclear facilities be damaged or destroyed in an attack. Embassies in all countries generally have evacuation plans for their staff, but foreign sources describe the general atmosphere in Iran as one of heightened preparedness. Recently, several...

Several foreign embassies in Teheran are updating their emergency evacuation plans should a Western or Israeli attack on Iran occur. According to foreign sources, foreign diplomats believe a possible attack would take place before the end of 2007. By that time, Iran might have enough enriched uranium to cause a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe from radioactive fallout should its nuclear facilities be damaged or destroyed in an attack. Embassies in all countries generally have evacuation plans for their staff, but foreign sources describe the general atmosphere in Iran as one of heightened preparedness. Recently, several diplomatic missions based in Teheran...

Intelligence agents will be commissioned to Brazilian embassies in Venezuela and Bolivia, as the two countries have become a matter of concern in the hemisphere, official sources said Thursday. The Institutional Security Cabinet under the President's Office confirmed AFP the news disseminated in newspaper "Estado de Minas." Officials explained that they are not covert agents, but attaches who will cooperate with the domestic staff of the countries where they will be deployed. The Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) started a process of internal selection of the officials who will be appointed to Caracas and La Paz. To date, Brazil had intelligence...

Report of the Accountability Review Boards Bombings of the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August 7, 1998 NAIROBI: DISCUSSION AND FINDINGS [* Note: Passages here and elsewhere in this document marked with an asterisk (*) indicate more details can be found in the classified version of the report.] Discussion On August 7, 1998, at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, terrorists driving in a truck detonated a large bomb in the rear parking area, near the ramp to the basement garage, of the American Embassy in Nairobi. A total of 213 people were killed, of...

Bush's Anti-Terrorism Record (CBS/AP) SCHENECTADY, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008, on Monday criticized the Bush administration for failing to do enough to protect the country from terrorists. Clinton's comments came after authorities in the United Kingdom last week said they thwarted a terror plot involving airplanes bound from Britain to the United States. Conspirators allegedly planned to blow up as many as 10 planes flying from Britain to the United States using liquid explosives, which the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's security equipment cannot detect in carry-on luggage. "We've done...

"When a thinking person sees or reads something that offends them in a newspaper, they write a letter to the editor; they don't torch KFC. Clearly, there is more than a touch of irony in the violent reactions of Muslims around the world as a result of these cartoons."

Some of my leftist friends have one thing in common with the Muslims now sacking foreign embassies: a fundamental lack of understanding as to how democracy works, and how precious it is. The leftists have grown up knowing nothing but freedom and opulence, and take things like the Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, and Constitution for granted (if they have even read these hallowed documents). The Muslim radicals (Islamists) are throwing lit jugs full of gasoline at Danish embassies because they have known nothing except Big Brother (One Newspaper, One Nation, One Religion, One World), and do not even know...

Muslim demonstrators clashed with security forces who fired live rounds and tear gas to break up violent protests in several Asian countries Monday against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Four people were killed and at least 19 wounded in Afghanistan. The worst of the violence was outside Bagram, the main US base in the country, with Afghan police firing on 2,000 protesters as they tried to break into the heavily guarded facility. Two of the demonstrators were killed and five wounded, while eight police were also hurt. In the central Afghan city of Mihtarlam, police fired on...

The increasingly bitter row over the publication of a series of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad reached a new intensity last night as protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria. With police signalling that they will launch an investigation into the behaviour of protesters in London who called for those insulting Islam to 'be beheaded', protesters in the Syrian capital, Damascus, defied tear gas and water cannon to enter the Danish embassy and replace that country's flag with another which read: 'No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet.' Last night the Danish embassy, which...

For four months this website has been one of the few places (apart from the Danish media, of course) where information could be found on the cartoon affair. Today the story is all over the global mainstream media (MSM). Hence there is no need for us to repeat what has been mentioned elsewhere. Our readers probably already know that the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus have been set on fire, that the U.S. and British governments are pleased that their newspapers do not have the guts of some European ones, and that the venerable BBC --never hesitating to offend...

A woman lights candles in front of the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2005 as Poles show their solidarity with the victims of terrorist attacks in London. A string of rush-hour explosions blamed on Islamic terrorists tore into at least three London subway trains and a double-decker bus on Thursday, killing more than 33 people and injuring about 390. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) People light candles in front of the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2005 as Poles show their solidarity with the victims of terrorist attacks in London. A string of rush-hour explosions blamed...

AMMAN, Jordan -- Jordan charged 16 Islamic militants on Sunday with plotting terror attacks, including strikes against the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Amman. The suspected cell members were detained between August and September, but details about the allegations against them, surfaced only after they were charged at the office of Jordan's military prosecutor. One of the suspects remains at large. The men, led by 50-year-old Jordanian Abed al-Tahawi, were charged with conspiring to carry out the attacks and illegal possession of automatic weapons, a court official said. A military prosecutor accused the defendants of plotting attacks against the U.S....

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Editor's note: Readers may be interested in two related stories: "Invested in Terrorism" and "BBC: U.S. Damned if it does and damned if it doesn't". -ALJ Douglas Farah uncovered the story of al-Qaeda's involvement in West Africa's diamond smuggling while reporting on Africa for the Washington Post, which he described in Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (New York: Broadway, 2004). Mr. Farah, now a consultant, freelance writer on terror finance and national security matters, and a senior fellow at the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, addressed the Middle East Forum in New York City on...

AL-QAEDA appears to be expanding its operations into Latin America, security officials are warning, with Western embassies appearing high up on the target list.Honduras has stepped up security after the government received information that the terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden was trying to recruit Hondurans to attack the embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain and El Salvador. And Mexican and Central American officials are on alert after uncovering evidence to suggest al-Qaeda members were in the region looking for recruits to carry out attacks. Oscar Alvarez, the Honduran security minister, said the purported al-Qaeda plot was linked...

Iraq will reopen its embassies in London, Washington and five Arab countries in the coming days, the top official in Iraq's Foreign Affairs Ministry said. "The Ministry will resume diplomatic activities in Washington, London, Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Abu Dhabi and Manama in the coming days," Ghassan Hussein, who heads up a caretaker steering committee formed to rehabilitate the Ministry said. Missions will be established "in 38 Arab and other foreign countries by the end of the year," added Mr Hussein, the former head of the Africa, Asia and Latin America department and the Ministry's senior non-Baathist. "All the ambassadors and...

Radio equipment thought to have been used in the deadly 1998 bombing attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was purchased in Tokyo's Akihabara district by a man with links to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, police sources said. The man, whose name is being withheld, was in charge of procuring funds and equipment for the international terrorist organization, police sources said. The aide visited Japan in 1995, when he bought the gear in Akihabara, an area famous for its many electronics shops. The explosions at the U.S. embassies killed more than 200 people and injured about 5,000. According...

Washington will require to close the Iraqi embassies (responsible) The United States will require of the governments of the whole world the closing of the Iraqi embassies in their respective countries in preparation for the fall of Saddam Hussein, announced Thursday of the American persons in charge. The State Department quickly will give instructions to all the American embassies so that they ask their countries hosts to declare that they do not recognize any more the government of Saddam Hussein and close the Iraqi diplomatic representations, said these persons in charge under cover for anonymity. "It is a usual...

For anyone interested in influencing the countries on the Security Council toward the US-UK position, the Discovery Institute in Seattle (full disclosure -- I work for them!) has compiled a list of those countries' embassies in Washington, D.C. and their permanent representatives to the UN in New York. Some of them don't get much attention and they're more willing to listen to regular Americans and give that feedback to their governments as a sign of American public opinion. Here is the contact list (the other link is to Discovery president Bruce Chapman's note on this campaign): http://www.discovery.org/news/youCanHelpTheUS/listOfEmbassies.html

The US has launched an effort to withdraw all non-essential Governmental personnel from the Middle East.Officials said the effort is meant to avoid Arab or Islamic reprisals on US personnel over the next few months in the Persian Gulf and Middle East region.They said US intelligence agencies have warned that Al Qaeda and Iraq could intensify attacks on US nationals to foil a potential Washington-led war coalition against Baghdad.

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) --  Nine U.S. embassies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East were closed, and U.S. military bases and embassies in Europe enforced tightened security Tuesday, the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.</p> <p>In Washington, Bush administration officials cited the threats against U.S. embassies in southeast Asia in raising the nation's terror alert to "code orange," its second-highest level.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  A flurry of telephone calls threatening the destruction of all U.S. embassies in Islamic nations within a week has prompted the State Department to alert all overseas diplomatic posts.</p> <p>The caller identified himself as the spokesman or interpreter for Osama bin Laden, the head of an international terror organization believed responsible for the Sept. 11 bombings in New York and Washington and other attacks.</p>

An earthquake strikes. A government collapses. A terrorist threat emerges. Relatives try to inform you that a family member is dying. Or you just lose your passport. If you happen to be resident outside your country, you might make your life easier in any of these situations if you take one relatively painless preventive measure: register with your embassy. No major country makes this an obligation, nor could any government conceivably enforce such a requirement on roving, untrackable and often large populations - as many as 6 million Americans may live abroad. Not all countries actively encourage their expatriate citizens...

SOUNDING BOARD What has soda pop to do with security? By FRANK MICHEL Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle If an American can't get a sip of Coca-Cola (that most American of drinks) here, where can he get one? It was a question I had been asking myself in several U.S. embassies in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world in recent years. During the Clinton administration, State Department budgets had gotten so tight that embassy staffs couldn't even offer modest refreshments to visitors, not even to worrisome editorial writers.</font color> It seems a trivial thing, but the more important question...