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The U.S. Embassy in Yemen announced on its website that it was closed Sunday "in response to ongoing threats by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ... to attack American interests in Yemen." President Barack Obama had said in his weekly address on Saturday that the plot for the attempted Christmas Day sky bombing unfolded in Yemen, where extremists trained the suspect, "equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America." Yemen adjoins Saudi Arabia and is separated from Somalia by the Gulf of Aden.
The British government joined the United States in closing its embassy in Yemen on Sunday, AP reported. Shutting an embassy is a rare and dire step, dramatizing the Arab nation's emergence as one of the world's premier terrorist havens.
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