Westerners warned to leave Benghazi
January 25, 2013  01:56
Britain, Germany and the Netherlands urged their citizens today to immediately leave the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in response to what was described as an imminent threat against Westerners. 

The warnings come a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified to Congress about the deadly September attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya.

They also come as French troops battle Al Qaeda linked militants in Mali, and follow the deaths of dozens of foreigners at the hands of Islamist extremists in Algeria -- though it remained unclear if those two events were linked to the European nations' concerns about Libya. 

The foreign ministries of the three countries issued statements variously describing the threat as specific and imminent but none gave details as to its exact nature.
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