A major terror plot is underway and a team to carry it out "has been selected and is in place," according to CBS News senior correspondent John Miller's sources.
While there is no other information—date, time, location—Miller reports that it's the most specific, credible threat data in years.
Which helps explain the State Department's decision Friday to issue a broad global travel alert for U.S. citizens for the entire month of August, as well as the order to close 21 embassies across the Muslim world beginning Sunday because of an unspecified threat.
CBS News reports that officials have noted Yemen as a potential target, as it's the home base foral Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, a.k.a. AQAP, widely considered the most dangerous in the world.
President Obama was briefed Saturday morning on the potential terrorist threat before departing for Camp David, according to CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.
August has been an active month for terrorism, CBS News says: 15 years ago this week the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania took more than 200 lives and injured more than 4,000.
CBS News adds that next month is the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
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