The BBC's correspondent in Jakarta, Richard Galpin, says security experts believe this latest closure of the embassy may be the result of further intelligence reports indicating the presence of another al-Qaeda group inside the country.
The general's position as loyal ally in the fight against global terror was further cemented this week with the arrest in Pakistan of Abu Zubaydah, thought to be the third-ranking member of the al-Qaeda group.
The United States has designated al-Nusra Front as a pro-al Qaeda terrorist group.
It also claimed that he was a key recruiter of Kenyan Muslims to fight with Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group that is trying to overthrow the Somali government.
The al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab lost control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to AU and Somali government forces in 2011.
Alex Cary, who ran the detective drama "Lie to Me, " is a former British infantry officer who reality-checks the soldierly behavior of Brody, the "Homeland" marine who endured eight years of captivity by an al Qaeda-like terrorist group.
Most Iraqi Kurds blame Ansar al-Islam, an Afghan-trained group of Kurdish Islamists, which the Americans say has links to al-Qaeda, or Yemenis abetted by local Ansaris.
Some analysts say the Kenyan government wants to establish a buffer zone along its border with Somalia following a string of attacks blamed on the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group.
Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has been blamed for a spate of attacks in Kenya in recent years.
Kenya has been hit in recent years by a spate of bombings and abductions, blamed on Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
Most of the skepticism over Iranian involvement with al-Qaeda has centered around the fact that Iran is ruled by a Shia Islamic theocracy, whereas al-Qaeda is a Sunni Wahhabi Islamic group.
Kenya accuses Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group of trying to destabilise the country.
Although political violence in Algeria has declined since the 1990s, the country has been shaken by by a campaign of bombings carried out by a group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Land of Islamic Maghreb (AQLIM).
The decision allows Somalia's new government to buy light arms to help it in its fight against the al-Qaeda-aligned al-Shabab Islamist militant group.
The U.S. military accelerated strikes against Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula following December's failed attempt by the group to blow up a Detroit-bound American airliner.
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said the group was closely linked to al-Qaeda's franchise in north-west Africa.
America already claims to have captured two-thirds of al-Qaeda's leaders, so this could cripple the group.
Kidal, 1, 500km (930 miles) north-east of the capital Bamako, was until recently under the control of the Ansar Dine Islamist group, which has strong ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The US government considers it a terrorist group, and says it has links with al-Qaeda.
It is led by Abdel Hakim Belhaj, once head of the now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, widely regarded as being close to al-Qaeda.
He said this was not a new position and he was prepared to enter talks with any group, provided they were not agents of al-Qaeda or terrorists.
America regards one group of Filipino militants, Abu Sayyaf, with al-Qaeda links, as terrorists.
In May 2002 Riaz Basra was killed, and analysts believe that the group began to develop links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
The former Green Beret has also been credited with playing a key role in the capture of Saddam Hussein, and he led the group that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
The phrase "deviant group" is often used by authorities in Saudi Arabia to describe al-Qaeda members.
Al-Maliki also has promised a major offensive targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, a predominantly Sunni group, in the northern city of Mosul.
"I am not aware of any evidence so far that the Boston suspect is part of any organized group, let alone al Qaeda, the Taliban, or one of their affiliates -- the only organizations whose members are subject to detention under the Authorization for Use of Military Force, as it has been consistently interpreted by all three branches of our government, " he said.
Mr Kablia said that the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) before late last year, when he set up his own armed group after apparently falling out with other leaders.
Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said that the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) before late last year, when he set up his own armed group after apparently falling out with other leaders.
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