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. Read More: The
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