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CQ HOMELAND SECURITY – TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
May 18, 2007 – 8:00 p.m.

“Maritime Terrorism May Be al Qaeda Method of Choice”
By Eleanor Stables, CQ Staff

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Maritime terrorism is positioned to be al Qaeda’s method of choice, according to an Israeli intelligence expert.

“In the near future we will witness more maritime attempts to disrupt the oil flow in the Persian Gulf and against cruise ships,” writes Akiva J. Lorenz of the Israel-based International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in a May 2007 paper.

Terrorists might sink a vessel in order to disrupt narrow chokepoints vital to trade.

“Six of the nine chokepoints in the world are located in geographical areas where local terrorist groups with ties to Al Qaeda possess maritime capabilities,” Lorenz writes.”