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US Embassy In Indonesia Closed

HeadlineMay 27, 2005

This news from Indonesia: The U.S. Embassy has been shut down because of what US officials called an unspecified security threat. Several newspapers are reporting that the decision to shut down the embassy happened after a diagram of the building and details of how to carry out an attack were posted on a Web site by a group calling itself the Brigade Istimata International. It allegedly showed the location of the ambassador’s office, surveillance cameras and heat detectors.

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