YEMEN has boosted security around western embassies as Washington held urgent talks on an Al-Qaeda threat that prompted it to close missions across the Arab world.
Britain, France and Germany all closed their embassies in Sanaa for at least two days following the US warning that lawmakers in Washington said involved al-Qaeda's Yemen and Saudi Arabia branch, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Special forces with armoured personnel carriers were stationed outside the US embassy in Sanaa and the missions of Britain, France and Germany, and AFP correspondent reported.
Police and army checkpoints were set up on all main streets around the Yemeni capital, especially those leading to Western embassies.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice chaired White House talks to review Washington's response to the threat it revealed on Friday.
Also attending were Secretary of State John Kerry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well as the heads of the CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency, the White House said.
President Barack Obama did not attend but was briefed afterwards.
"Early this week, the president instructed his national security team to take all appropriate steps to protect the American people in light of a potential threat occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula," a White House statement said.
On Friday, Washington issued a worldwide travel warning, citing unspecified plans by Al-Qaeda to strike US interests in the Middle East or North Africa in August.
The White House meeting was held as Interpol issued a global security alert after hundreds of militants were set free in jailbreaks linked to Al-Qaeda, and as suicide bombers killed nine near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
The worldwide police agency said it suspected Al-Qaeda was involved in jailbreaks across nine countries, notably Iraq, Libya and Pakistan.
It said the breakouts had "led to the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals" in the past month alone.
Interpol noted that this week marks the 15th anniversary of al-Qaeda's bombing of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which killed more than 200 people and wounded thousands.
August also marks the anniversaries of attacks in India, Russia and Indonesia.
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