US Embassy Offers Evacuation of Families of Staff!

by **jingjai** » May 15, 2010, 4:44 pm

If the U.S. Embassy is this concerned, with all of it intelligence agency's here...they must know something the rest of us aren't being told :-k

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US Embassy offers evacuation of families of staff
23 mins ago
BANGKOK – The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok is offering to evacuate family members of its staff in the volatile Thai capital and has issued a travel warning advising American citizens to stay away.

Embassy spokeswoman Cynthia Brown says the State Department has "authorized the voluntary departure" of relatives of its employees in Bangkok and "will provide financial assistance" for their travel.

Brown says the U.S. also issued a "travel warning advising all citizens to defer travel to Bangkok."

Until Saturday, the U.S. had placed Bangkok under a "travel alert" that advised citizens to defer nonessential travel.

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by **Texpat** » May 15, 2010, 6:04 pm

I agree, it does seem a bit alarmist.
They don't mention where they're evacuating them to ... Chiang Mai for a week?

More people are killed on the streets of Washington DC over a good weekend, that have been killed in this months-long skirmish.

by **FrazeeDK** » May 15, 2010, 9:13 pm

ahahahahah!!! It's oxymoronic.. US Embassy and Intelligence.. remember Monty Python and the Holy Grail?? Run Away, Run Away!!

by **stoneman** » May 16, 2010, 10:21 am

The American Ambassador held a briefing less than 10 days ago at the Marriott in BKK...At that briefing the Embassy Security Chief spoke and made the point that the situation did NOT call for evacuation...10 days later...a different story...Yes, it appears that things have changed...

Stoneman

by **NOLA** » May 16, 2010, 10:28 am

I love Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

by **FrazeeDK** » May 16, 2010, 11:13 am

of course, who would have imagined the entire area inlcuding the American embassy cordoned off and bullets zinging down the street in front of it!

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