As of tonight, there had been no response from the embassy.

Thomas was met by a staff car from the embassy.

"Somebody from the embassy can pick up my car in the morning."

A few moments ago we had a call from the American embassy.

They wait every day beside the phone for the call from the embassy.

Finally he was allowed to leave, and found a driver from the embassy waiting for him.

"Someone from the embassy is staying in the room with her now."

What if it was a guard, who had followed him from the embassy?

That's the hard part, Murray told himself on the drive home from the embassy.

Today, a statement from the embassy here, which lost 12 American workers, suggested that its position has not changed.