Diplomatic missions shut as terror attacks ‘imminent’

THE United States, Britain, and Germany have closed their diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia after Washington warned that more terror attacks in the oil rich kingdom were “imminent.”

A Saudi official said investigators believed hard-core Muslim militants linked to al-Qaida were ready to volunteer for suicide strikes like the ones that targeted Westerners in the capital Riyadh last week.

He said Saudis were aware of about 50 hard-core Muslim militants, some now dead, believed to belong to three cells, including the one that carried out the Riyadh bombings.