
All of the U.S. embassies and consulates closed last week due to a potential terrorism threat reopened, except the one in Sana, Yemen, officials said. The diplomatic outposts reopened Sunday marking the easing of imminent danger. The embassies were closed when the Obama administration issued a warning of a possible terrorist attack stemming from a U.S. intelligence report based on an intercepted a message between top al-Qaida leaders, The New York Times reported. Eight U.S. drone strikes in Yemen over the past two weeks have killed 34 suspected al-Qaida militants -- none of them \"household names,\" a senior U.S. intelligence official said -- but the threat in that country remains high. The official said the drone attacks had targeted \"rising stars\" in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. \"They may not be big names now,\" the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, \"but these were the guys that would have been future leaders.\" The official said the recent terrorist threat \"expanded the scope of people we could go after\" in Yemen. \"Before, we couldn\'t necessarily go after a driver for the organization; it\'d have to be an operations director,\" the official said. \"Now that driver becomes fair game because he\'s providing direct support to the plot.\"
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