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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 11/04
Terrorist Threat to Energy and Infrastructure
Tamara Makarenko
June 2003
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
St. Andrews University, Scotland
Abstract
Recent indications point to an increased risk of systematic attacks against the world's petroleum supply chain, particularly in South Asia and the Middle East. Tamara Makarenko examines the trends in terrorist attacks on the energy sector.
Al-Qaeda's stated aim of focusing operations on hard economic targets allied to a rise in incidents of energy terrorism in regions where there has been a growth in Islamist groups indicates that the risk of attacks on energy sector infrastructure has increased significantly in recent months.
