The coalition thwarted a terrorist attack targeting an oil tanker off Yemen
English - Wednesday 04 March 2020 الساعة 04:20 pm
Aden, Newsyemen:
The Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, announced on Wednesday that it had thwarted a terrorist attack targeting an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea.
The spokesman for the coalition forces, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, affirmed that the imminent terrorist act targeting an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea, 90 nautical miles southeast of the Yemeni "Activists" port, was foiled and thwarted.
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Maliki said that the attempted terrorist attack took place last Tuesday at 14:39 while sailing the oil tanker towards the Gulf of Aden, and 4 boats attempting to attack and detonate the ship with one of these unmanned and remote-controlled boats.
Al-Maliki added that the maritime threat to global energy security and the threat of maritime transport routes and the global trade of ships and marine media have become a strategic threat to global security with the expansion of the threat of terrorist organizations to the maritime straits from the south of the Red Sea to the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden as an extension of the Arabian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
The Spokesman emphasized the continuation of the Alliance Joint Forces Command by applying the necessary measures and measures to neutralize and destroy any maritime threat in the Alliance Naval Operations area, and the Allied Joint Forces Command calls on international partners to unite and join international efforts to neutralize these threats to global security.
