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HALO Security
Barriers, if deployed at the locations in the following scenarios,
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dailynews.lk
-- Vice-Admiral KK Nayyar, chairman of the National Maritime Foundation,
warns of threats emanating from ‘flags of convenience’ ships
registered in Panama or Liberia. Talking of the global nature of the
threat, he says, “If terrorists blow a hole in an oil tanker passing
the Straits of Hormuz or Malacca, a direct fallout would be a steep increase
in oil prices and ship insurance.”
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huliq.com
-- Desperate Niger Delta militants attacked and killed two police escorts
on a Nigerian LNG (Nigeria LNG) ferry Monday afternoon in Bonny.
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CNN.com
-- Iranian patrol boats have increased attempts in the last week to assess
defenses near Iraqi offshore oil terminals, U.S. military officials said
Monday.
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DUBAI (Reuters)
- A Saudi wing of al Qaeda called for attacks on suppliers of oil to
the United States around the world, saying targets should not be limited
to the Middle East and listing Canada, Venezuela and Mexico as under
threat.
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CNN.com -
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer. In 2005, it was the world's
sixth largest exporter of oil, but the conflict there has cut distribution
by an estimated 500,000 barrels per day, according to the U.S. Department
of Energy. The militants are threatening to hurt the oil sector even more.
->more
GulfNews.com -
Sri Lanka's military prevented a possible Tamil Tiger rebel attack on
Colombo's port early on Saturday when three suspicious boats were detected
and destroyed by air and naval forces, a Defense Ministry official said.
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BBC
News.co.uk -
Councillors against plans for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on
Anglesey say they fear a terrorist attack or accident on the site. ->more
washingtontimes.com -
Federal officials are recommending new security measures to protect the
nation's half-dozen liquefied natural gas facilities from a terrorist
attack after a break-in at a Massachusetts operation last summer went
undetected for nearly a week. ->more
savannahnow.com -
On March 14 this year, Mr. McCarthy was piloting a tanker ship past the
Southern LNG facility on Elba Island, where an LNG tanker was off-loading.
The time was about 4:30 a.m. Mr. McCarthy drove his vessel, the Charleston,
past the island at an estimated speed of 12 to 14 knots. The resulting
wake upset the natural gas tanker, the 940-foot Golar Freeze, which shook
loose four of its 16 mooring lines at Elba's two-ship slip, located off
the ship channel. ->more
icWales.co.uk -
AN INVESTIGATION is under way after an 18,000-tonne tanker crashed into
a jetty at the Welsh port due to begin a huge gas importation
scheme. ->more
ABC
News,
Oakland,CA - Are California's ports secure? ABC7 reports on a startling
new review of where California may be the most vulnerable to terrorism.
Even though half the nation's containers enter through California's ports,
there just hasn't been enough money to strengthen them. ->more
The Argus,
UK - There is 24-hour surveillance with video cameras
but they are only good for recording what has happened, not raising the
alert. ->more
PORT HARCOURT,
Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers
including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian
coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
Italian oil company Eni closed 50,000 barrels per day of production at
the Okono Okpoho field as a result of the attack, an industry source
said. ->more
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COLOMBO,
Sri Lanka — Powerful explosions rocked a southern
tourist and port town in Sri Lanka today when suicide bombers detonated
two boats packed with explosives near a naval base. ->more
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A statement purportedly from Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi,
a Jordanian extremist thought to have ties to Osama bin Laden, claimed
responsibility for the suicide boat attack on Iraq’s
main oil terminals over the weekend. ->more
NIGER — The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell was considering puling
out of the volatile Niger Delta region yesterday after heavily armed
militants stormed one
of its facilities and killed at least 17 people. ->more
TAMIL — Tiger rebels struck at the heart of Sri Lanka’s
tourist industry yesterday with a suicide boat attack that killed
at least 16 people and sparked
looting in the historic southern city of Galle. ->more
MILITARY.COM — Possible future attack scenarios are limited only by the
nefarious imaginations of terrorists. In the basic situations outlined below,
a key point is the distinction between the initial assault and the primary attack
phases. Like the head fake familiar to football and basketball players-feigning
movement in one direction so the opponent is enticed to commit toward the feint
and then moving quickly in the other direction-the terrorist head fake could
be a diversionary assault on a pier gate or pier guards while the primary attack
is delivered from a seaside vector by small boat or a swimmer. Alternatively,
no head fake would be necessary in a direct assault that forcibly opens access
to the pier for a primary attack by a truck or car bomb that detonates its payload
near a ship. ->more
MUKALLA, Yemen, Oct 13 (Reuters) — Yemen is now convinced attackers set
off the blast that gutted a French supertanker in the Gulf of Aden last week
and Western shipping executives said on Sunday the assault was probably the work
of suicide bombers. ->more
LAGOS, Nigeria — Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) can now confirm a total
of seven fatalities from last Friday’s (April 23) attack on the Benin River.
This follows the recovery of the body of the remaining missing person. Two of
the dead are United States citizens, working for International Business Systems,
Inc., a contractor company to ChevronTexaco Overseas Petroleum, a division of
Chevron USA ->more
NIGER — Delta militants have claimed continued attacks on Shell
oil platforms and an army houseboat, two days after kidnapping nine foreign
oilworkers
to press home their demand for bigger share of oil revenues. ->more |
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