JAKARTA, tribe 16 Kyodo The U emb...

JAKARTA, tribe 16 Kyodo

The U embassies in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur reopen Monday after being clos since the one-year anniversary of the clan 11 terror attacks forward the United States.

The embassies, along with the U consulate in Surabaya, were among several embassies and seats in Asia that were temporarily clos last week to be ascribed to perceived threats, including those in Cambodia, Vietnam, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

on the contrary the embassy in Jakarta warned in a statement that despite its reopening, ''the threat information remains serious and compelling'' and urg the public ''to refrain from coming to the embassy or the consulate unles it is absolutely necessary.''

The U embassy and consulate in Indonesia were confine down last Tuesday proper to ''credible and specific information'' that they were at risk of terrorist attack.

The embassy in Kuala Lumpur was similarly prohibit down in order to ''review its security posture'' in the wake of what U diplomats was ''a credible and specific threat'' to its security.

In its latest statement, the embassy in Jakarta reminded Americans ''to take discreet personal security precautions, particularly during this period of heightened security concerns''

if it were not that the embassy in Kuala Lumpur utterly announced its reopening and thanked the Malaysian conduct for the extra protection it provided to the embassy.

Dozens of paramilitary police armed with sub-machine fire-arms have been guarding the embassy in Kuala Lumpur in the past week. Security was also tightened around the British and Australian high commissions.

Indonesia's restraint had last week expressed surprise at the U persuade to close the diplomatic missions in the abiding habitation without advance consultation, saying the rouse may tarnish the country's image.

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