Al-Qaida Likely Planning Unprecedented Attack by Sea

Great. Just great:

The al-Qaida terror network likely is planning an
unprecedented maritime attack, hitting targets on land with ships
carrying chemical, biological or dirty bomb weapons, a defense analyst
said Wednesday. The terrorist network could easily exploit weaknesses
in shipping companies' crew selection procedures by planting sleeper
agents on vessels to eventually seize them, said Michael Richardson, a
senior researcher at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
who writes extensively on Asian security issues. "The al-Qaida network
has serious maritime terrorism plans," Richardson told diplomats,
academics and defense officials at the institute.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 17, 2004 at 12:13 PM | Permalink