11.   American embassies, schools and other facilities closed throughout the Middle East as security alerts warned expatriates to exercise extreme caution.

12.   And outside the American embassy, there was always a line of young people anxious to leave their motherland for American dreams.

13.   Another official said the American team also included one CIA agent, whom he named, and one official from the American embassy.

14.   Arabs took to the streets throughout the Middle East, storming the American embassy in Damascus and demonstrating in Rabat.

15.   As did he, they have been stonewalled trying to get visas from the American embassy to come see their son play.

16.   As word spread of the attacks, countries moved quickly to secure American embassies and institutions on their soil.

17.   Ashcroft said the special status is also available to people outside the country who go to American embassies with useful information and seek to enter the United States.

18.   Beghal was instructed to return to France via Morocco and Spain and orchestrate a suicide bombing of the American embassy in Paris.

19.   Before the new law, though, they had to go back to their country to ask for a visa at an American embassy.

20.   Bin Laden has been indicted in the bombings of the two American embassy buildings in Africa in August and in other acts of terrorism abroad.