CNNW CNN Newsroom February 6, 2012
before this. but actually, the decision by secretary clinton was to allow them to shutter the embassy and the rest of the staff got out we're told in a convoy over land to jordan. now, the reason the u.s. is doing this, they say, is that the government has refused -- the syrian government has refused to address its security concerns. and what were they? well, the embassy in damascus is located right off on a very busy street. and the u.s. says there was concern after some car bombs last month that perhaps there could be -- the embassy could be a target of al qaeda. that bombing, by t...