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Us pulls saudi diplomats under threats Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4841800 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4841800 U.S. to Pull Some Diplomats from Saudi, Cites Threat Thu Apr 15, 2004 04:31 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nonessential U.S. diplomats and all embassy dependents will be ordered to leave Saudi Arabia because the threat level has risen in the kingdom, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday. "We are concerned. The threat level has gone up and in light of the threat level and the information we have received ... we will be having ... (an) ordered departure announcement later this afternoon," Powell told reporters, using the State Department term for ordering some diplomats and all dependents to leave a country.

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