The US evacuated most of its diplomatic staff from Lahore, Pakistan, because of “specific threats” against the US Consulate, and warned American citizens against traveling to Pakistan. Federal authorities in Miami, Fla., charged Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, 30, a naturalized US citizen and resident of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and Mohamed Hussein Said, 25, a Kenyan national and resident of Nairobi and Mombasa, with numerous crimes involving the provision of support to al Qaeda, al Qaeda in Iraq/ Al Nusrah Front, and Shabaab. The suspects are also accused of “recruiting and moving experienced al Shabaab fighters to the conflict in Syria.”
