2010年08月06日
Japan tanker
A MILITANT group linked to al-Qaida claimed that a suicide bomber from its organization was responsible for an explosion on a Japanese supertanker last Wednesday near the Strait of Hormuz.
A group using the name Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which also claimed attacks in Israel last year and in Egypt and Jordan in 2005, posted a statement and photo on an Islamist Web site used by militants. “Last Wednesday, after midnight, the martyrdom-seeking hero Ayyub al-Taishan blew himself up in the Japanese tanker M.Star in the Strait of Hormuz between the United Arab Emirates and Oman,” the statement said.
The company hired a Dubai-based specialist last week to investigate what had damaged the 333-meter-long M.Star. Japan’s foreign and transport ministries also had no immediate comment.
The narrow Strait is gateway to the oil-producing Gulf and handles 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil. Al-Qaida has threatened to attack shipping there in the past.
Bordered by Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, it is guarded by U.S. and other warships.
Attacks claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades include deadly bombings at the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh in 2005 and the firing of rockets, which missed two U.S. warships in Jordan’s Aqaba port the same year
A group using the name Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which also claimed attacks in Israel last year and in Egypt and Jordan in 2005, posted a statement and photo on an Islamist Web site used by militants. “Last Wednesday, after midnight, the martyrdom-seeking hero Ayyub al-Taishan blew himself up in the Japanese tanker M.Star in the Strait of Hormuz between the United Arab Emirates and Oman,” the statement said.
The company hired a Dubai-based specialist last week to investigate what had damaged the 333-meter-long M.Star. Japan’s foreign and transport ministries also had no immediate comment.
The narrow Strait is gateway to the oil-producing Gulf and handles 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil. Al-Qaida has threatened to attack shipping there in the past.
Bordered by Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, it is guarded by U.S. and other warships.
Attacks claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades include deadly bombings at the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh in 2005 and the firing of rockets, which missed two U.S. warships in Jordan’s Aqaba port the same year
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