WASHINGTON: Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was plotting to hijack and blow up supertankers in the high seas last summer to send oil prices sky rocketing to shake the world economy, US officials have disclosed.
So serious did the American officials take the threat that the FBI and the department of homeland security has issued a warning to local police authorities across the country about an Qaida threat of targeting oil and natural gas assets including tankers.
The US officials came across the al-Qaida plot to blow up tankers while sifting through documents found in the Abbottabad.
A joint intelligence alert issued by the FBI and department of homeland security said that information had been received that al-Qaida had sought information on super oil tankers and was contemplating that spring and summer was the best time to approach these ships, apparently a hint to hijacking them and later blowing them up to create an "extreme economic crisis".
So serious did the American officials take the threat that the FBI and the department of homeland security has issued a warning to local police authorities across the country about an Qaida threat of targeting oil and natural gas assets including tankers.
The US officials came across the al-Qaida plot to blow up tankers while sifting through documents found in the Abbottabad.
A joint intelligence alert issued by the FBI and department of homeland security said that information had been received that al-Qaida had sought information on super oil tankers and was contemplating that spring and summer was the best time to approach these ships, apparently a hint to hijacking them and later blowing them up to create an "extreme economic crisis".
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