MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy – ” The State Department has gone into full-blown crisis mode, organizing a round-the-clock effort to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the expanding attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North Africa.

‘The State Department has stood up a 24-hr monitoring team to insure appropriate coordination of information and our response. In addition, our consular team is working with missions around the world to protect American citizens and issue appropriate public warden information,’ a senior State Department official told reporters Friday afternoon.

‘We have been monitoring events in the Middle East and North Africa intensively today, and working with our personnel and missions overseas and host governments to strengthen security in all locations and to respond effectively where protests have turned violent,’ the official said.

The official noted that U.S. embassies in Libya and Yemen have been reinforced with Marine FAST teams and noted that other unspecified measures are being taken to strengthen embassy security around the region. The State Department is working with the governments in Tunisia and Sudan to increase security at the U.S. embassies there as well, the official said.

The U.S. Embassy in Tunis was breached by rioters who replaced the American flag with the black banner of al Qaeda.” Read more.

Britain ‘Poised’ To Evacuate Diplomats From Middle East– “Britain is reportedly ‘poised’ to evacuate its diplomats from the Middle East as mob violence against western targets continues, with an independent anti-Muslim film made in the U.S. serving as pretext for the rioting. According to the Mail Online, ‘Emergency plans are in place to evacuate UK diplomats and their families.’ Security has been ‘reviewed’ at British embassies and consulates, and U.S. delegations are on high alert. Canada has temporarily shut down its Cairo embassy.” Read more.