U.S. Orders Nonessential Diplomats To Leave Yemen.

The State Department on Wednesday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to depart Yemen and urged all Americans there to leave as security conditions deteriorated with the country's embattled leader refusing to step down.

The decision to tell most nonessential personnel and the families of all American staff at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa to leave was a sign of Washington's increasing concern about the situation in Yemen, where street battles between supporters and opponents of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh raged for a third day. The clashes have left at least 41 dead and dozens badly injured.

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Why do we have them if they're "Nonessential"?

Secretaries, Clerks, Liasions, etc. etc. They are there to help with the day to day operations. But in a crisis, they are removed and the facility runs on skeleton staff only.