MI6 said to have uncovered a maritime terrorism plot in the Caribbean

According to a British newspaper, the British Foreign Intelligence MI6 has uncovered a plot by Al Qaeda to attack cruise ships in the Caribbean. The source stated that Al Qaeda planned to mimic the USS Cole attack (October 12, 2000) by using suicide terrorists to steer explosive loaded small crafts into the hull of the [...]

Al Qaeda's Maritime Threat

By Akiva J. Lorenz | Maritime Terrorism
Terrorism is a phenomenon which citizens of most countries have been tragically familiar with long before the infamous 9/11 attacks in the United States. Despite the long history of a successful fight against the plague of traditional forms of political terrorism, security services have underestimated the threat which militant [...]