Is the Sky Falling Energy Security and Transnational Terrorism
Abstract
This paper will assess the extent to which transnational terrorists in particular global Jihadists associated with Osama bin Laden have been interested in attacks against the global energy infrastructure.] We then assess the extent to which terrorists have in fact targeted that infrastructure and with what effect. We then place these attacks in the context of other supply disruption events. Finally we make suggestions about a viable way ahead. Western fears about the threat posed by transnational terrorists to energy supplies certainly seem warranted. al-Qaeda has repeatedly threatened to disrupt supplies and have followed up on those threats in a few cases. For example following the attack on the French tanker Limburg in October 2002 al-Qaeda issued a statement that it "was not an incidental strike at a passing tanker but...on the international oil-carrying line in the full sense of the word. Moreover al-Qaeda sees the U.S. intervention in Iraq as strongly linked to the supply of oil. A Bin Laden audio tape broadcasted December 19 2004 proclaimed:
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA484635
Entities
People
- D. B. Anderson
- Michael Mihalka
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College