My husband works as PMC retired Spec Ops contractor. He's in Afghanistan right now.
According to his observations he believes it should have already been done a long time ago, but yes the U S apparently is closing some in the middle East because of threats made by Al Qaida.
It's getting so bad.
NEW YORK -- The U.S. will temporarily shut down all of its embassies in the Middle East (and some in Asia) on Sunday in response to a possible
threat connected to al-Qaida,
NBC News is reporting. They're not specifying which embassies will be closed, or how many.