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October 07, 2002
Terrorist alert after oil tanker 'attack' By Our Foreign Staff
A FRENCH-FLAGGED supertanker was ablaze off the coast of Yemen yesterday after a blast ripped a huge hole in its side.
The owners of the Limburg said that they thought terrorists using a boat packed with explosives could have been responsible. However, a Yemeni official quoted the captain as saying that a small fire on board had set off the explosion.
The owners thought it more likely that a terrorist attack was to blame. “In my opinion, this was a terrorist attack,” Jacques Moizan, director of Euronav SA, said. “The crew saw a high-speed vessel approaching on the starboard side . . . an explosion followed with fire.”
Another company official said that he had an eyewitness account relayed by the Limburg’s captain that a fishing boat had approached the tanker and collided with it.
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President Chirac announced that French investigators would go to Yemen to join local experts in examining the tanker. In a telephone call to President Ali Abdallah Saleh of Yemen, M Chirac thanked him for what had been done to save the crew, an official at the Elyse'e Palace in Paris said.
The attack on the USS Cole in Aden in 2000 has been blamed by Washington on Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
Last month, the US Navy gave warning of possible attacks on oil tankers in Gulf waters by al-Qaeda, held by Washington to be responsible for last year’s September 11 attacks. However, the US Navy in the region said that it had no plans to step up patrols as a result of the tanker incident.
Captain Peter Raes, managing director of the management companies for CMB, said that the Limburg ’s captain had told him that an eyewitness had seen a small fishing boat approach and collide with it. Captain Raes doubted whether the explosion occurred inside the ship.
“There were no sources of ignition (inside), no electrical lighting,” he said. “It was brand new.”
The French military attache' in Yemen, who was identified as Colonel Vial, told France’s LCI television station that the blast had occurred at the same time as a small boat had approached the tanker, but he added: “Other sources tell us that it was an accidental explosion.”
The double-hulled vessel, bought in 2000, was built in South Korea, Captain Raes said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-438648,00.html
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Terrorist alert after oil tanker 'attack' By Our Foreign Staff
A FRENCH-FLAGGED supertanker was ablaze off the coast of Yemen yesterday after a blast ripped a huge hole in its side.
The owners of the Limburg said that they thought terrorists using a boat packed with explosives could have been responsible. However, a Yemeni official quoted the captain as saying that a small fire on board had set off the explosion.
The owners thought it more likely that a terrorist attack was to blame. “In my opinion, this was a terrorist attack,” Jacques Moizan, director of Euronav SA, said. “The crew saw a high-speed vessel approaching on the starboard side . . . an explosion followed with fire.”
Another company official said that he had an eyewitness account relayed by the Limburg’s captain that a fishing boat had approached the tanker and collided with it.
略
President Chirac announced that French investigators would go to Yemen to join local experts in examining the tanker. In a telephone call to President Ali Abdallah Saleh of Yemen, M Chirac thanked him for what had been done to save the crew, an official at the Elyse'e Palace in Paris said.
The attack on the USS Cole in Aden in 2000 has been blamed by Washington on Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
Last month, the US Navy gave warning of possible attacks on oil tankers in Gulf waters by al-Qaeda, held by Washington to be responsible for last year’s September 11 attacks. However, the US Navy in the region said that it had no plans to step up patrols as a result of the tanker incident.
Captain Peter Raes, managing director of the management companies for CMB, said that the Limburg ’s captain had told him that an eyewitness had seen a small fishing boat approach and collide with it. Captain Raes doubted whether the explosion occurred inside the ship.
“There were no sources of ignition (inside), no electrical lighting,” he said. “It was brand new.”
The French military attache' in Yemen, who was identified as Colonel Vial, told France’s LCI television station that the blast had occurred at the same time as a small boat had approached the tanker, but he added: “Other sources tell us that it was an accidental explosion.”
The double-hulled vessel, bought in 2000, was built in South Korea, Captain Raes said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-438648,00.html
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