[Excerpt: Kuwait has three refineries that process about 930,000 barrels of crude oil per day, but also has oil, product, and gas loading facilities along its southern coast. The sabotage operations were expected to come over the coming few days, they said......The Kuwait coastguard was reportedly instructed to halt any unauthorized vessels approaching oil installations. Kuwaitâs coastguard and other security forces carried out similar extraordinary measures along its coastline and oil facilities during the US-led military operation that brought down Saddam Husseinâs regime in Iraq in 2003. ]
_http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/Dec ember/middleeast_December819.xml§ion=middleeast_ (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/December/middleeast_December 819.xml§ion=middleeast) Kuwait boosts security at coastal oil facilities after threats: report (DPA) 30 December 2004 KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait has boosted coastguard and other security patrols after receiving threats that terrorists were targeting the nationâs coastal oil facilities with booby-trapped boats, al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday. The coastguard was ordered on high alert after the government received intelligence reports that terrorists were targeting Kuwaitâs three refineries along with other marine oil facilities, it said. Coastguard vessel patrols as well as helicopter patrols along the shore were increased; security sources told the paper after the ministry of interior received intelligence that between six and ten explosive-laden boats would target the refineries. Kuwait has three refineries that process about 930,000 barrels of crude oil per day, but also has oil, product, and gas loading facilities along its southern coast. The sabotage operations were expected to come over the coming few days, they said. The Kuwait coastguard was reportedly instructed to halt any unauthorized vessels approaching oil installations. Kuwaitâs coastguard and other security forces carried out similar extraordinary measures along its coastline and oil facilities during the US-led military operation that brought down Saddam Husseinâs regime in Iraq in 2003. The information that the ministry received coincided with intelligence received from Washington warning that a terrorist attack could likely take place within the emirate over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Over the past few weeks US and British embassies in Kuwait issued warnings to their citizens to keep low profiles as a guard against potential terror attacks. Meanwhile members of Kuwaitâs National Guard and Emiri Guard, which protects the rulers, have been called out to report for special duty until further notice, al-Anba newspaper reported. enditem [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
