Yemen received the first day of Eid (the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan) on August 8 2013, the same way it had received it on Christmas day, with US drone strikes, yet this time it was not with two strikes but three. The US closed 19 of it's embassies across countries in the Middle East and North Africa over a “terror threat”, which was intercepted by the CIA, between Al- Qaeda’s head Ayman Al-Zawahri and Nasir Al-Wuhayshi, the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) head in Yemen. The US also issued a warning to it's citizens to leave the country and flew its embassy staff to Germany. The UK, France and Germany followed suit, closing their embassies in Yemen and issuing terror warnings to their nationals to leave the country. A few days before Eid, on August 5, Sanaa residents were awoken to the buzzing sound of what they suspected to be a US drone which was later identified as a surveillance plane hovering over the skies of the capital, terrifying its residents. Photo of the US surveillance plane mistaken for a US Drone circling over the capital Sana'a. (by Yemeni photographer: Hafez Aljbahi Activist and Sanaa resident Osamah Alfakih also tweeted: 1st time to feel real feelings of people in targeted areas by #drones. I'm still watching and hearing a #drone hovering in #Sanaa #Yemen #US — Osamah Alfakih (@osamahfakih) August 6, 2013 Conflicting news of what's hovering over #Sanaa is a #drone or Navy P-3 surveillance aircraft #Yemen #US Anyway,it's scary enough for ppl! — Osamah Alfakih (@osamahfakih) August 6, 2013 A video of the US plane which was circling the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, for days was uploaded to YouTube via YouthStandYEMEN: A few days later, on August 8th, the first day of Eid three drone strikes were reported, two in Hadhramout and one in Mareb, killing 12, often referred to by media headlines as “suspected militants” without knowing their identities. Other Yemenis such as Ahmed Khaled complained of the terror caused by the US drones: Looks that eid in #yemen well be with #Drones instead of fireworks !!! — ahmed khaled (@a7khaled) August 7, 2013 Yemeni/American Journalist Hakim Almasmari, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Post, tweeted: Raining drones in Yemen!!!! Thank you for his Eid gift President @BarackObama. At least 11 killed in three drone strikes today. #Yemen — Hakim Almasmari (@HakimAlmasmari) August 8, 2013 Independent journalist Rania Khalik tweeted: I'm beginning to think the U.S. told its citizens to leave Yemen in order to bomb the crap out of it w/out worrying about killing Americans. — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) August 8, 2013 She questioned the “terror threat” adding a link to her blog: There were 3 U.S. drone strikes in Yemen today. If that's not terrorism, I dunno what is. http://t.co/U8KYQyBv1e — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) August 9, 2013 Yemeni/American activist Rooj Alwazir tweeted in dismay: #AQAP terror plot hype = psychological warfare. Wasn't there always “imminent threat” isnt that y how we justified our #drone program? — Rooj (@Rooj129) August 7, 2013 She added: Another #drone strike in #Yemen. 3rd strike in 3 days, 6th in 10 days. “bodies were seen lying charred alongside their vehicle” #HappyEid? — Rooj (@Rooj129) August 8, 2013 Yemeni journalist Khaled Al-Hammadi tweeted: #Yemen celeberated #Eid_Alfitr under #US drones in #Sanaa #Mareb #Shabwa & #Hadhramout, it is Eid mixed with US flavor of drone panic — Khaled al-Hammadi (@KhaledHammadi) August 8, 2013 #Yemen death toll : At least 36 killed in 10 days by US drone strikes. One bloody Eid. — Haykal Bafana (@BaFana3) August 10, 2013 Yemeni Blogger @Afrahnasser posted [graphic] video and stills images of recent US drone strikes in Yemen in her blog post Palestinian/American Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin also tweeted: In #Yemen, as people celebrated #Eid this year, American surveillance and armed #Drones flew above the country, striking & killing dozens. — Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (@ASE) August 11, 2013 Imagine the US were to be bombed during Christmas… that is what is happening in Yemen during #Eid. http://t.co/pWbmWQtiLd #Yemen #Drones — Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (@ASE) August 11, 2013 He added: The US droned the shit out of Yemen. No one talks about it here. But everyone is talking about it in #Yemen http://t.co/Rqn7d0TV0G — Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (@ASE) August 11, 2013 Yemeni activist and journalist Farea Al-Muslimi summed up the fear experienced by Yemenis over Eid in the title of his article in the IndependentThe innocents caught under the drones: For fearful Yemenis the US and al-Qa'ida look very similar: He wrote: The US is running to drones every time its counter-terrorism efforts fail.