Energy industry grapples with terror fears
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Sep 3, 2010 - The apparently failed seaborne attack, possibly by al-Qaida, on a Japanese supertanker in the Persian Gulf in July is ringing alarm bells in the energy industry. Security chiefs fear it could be a precursor of an assault on the region's oil centers and the choke point Strait of Hormuz, the only way in and out of the gulf, if Iran is attacked. The tanker, the 160,200-ton M. Star, ... more
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