Incident Date:
September 15, 2006
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ash Shihr Yemen
Perpetrators: Al Qaida
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Vehicle)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Utilities(Oil derricks (land or sea))
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "09/15/2006: Al Qaida in Yemen mounted several assaults on oil facilities, one of which was the terminal in Ash Shihr, operated by Canada's Nexen petroleum corporation at the time. The Qaida al-Jihad Organization in Yemen released a written statement claiming responsibility for the attacks on the oil facilities. Although no significant damage was done, the group referred specifically to Nexen and promised harsher attacks."
References: 1) ITAC
2) Terrorism Analysts: http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/103/html
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