Closing U.S. Embassies is, Quote, 'Crazy Pants'

" U.S. officials insisted Tuesday that extraordinary security measures for nearly two dozen diplomatic posts were to thwart an "immediate, specific threat," a claim questioned by counterterrorism experts, who note that the alert covers an incongruous set of nations from the Middle East to an island off the southern coast of Africa."* The broad closures of U.S. embassies due to a terror alert, ...