Obama asked to review LNG carrier security

摘要

Terrorism in Yemen could threaten US-bound LNG carrier cargoes, a senator has warned. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts democrat, asked President Barrack Obama to direct the US Coast Guard to review security procedures for transporting LNG from Yemen, through Boston Harbor to the terminal in Everett, Massachusetts. "The ongoing security situation in Yemen and the demonstrated intent of terrorist organisations to attack oil and gas facilities in that country raise concerns about the reliability and security of future shipments of natural gas from Yemen to New England," Markey said in a letter to the White House sent in August. The senator pointed out terrorists could stow away on LNG carriers. In 1995 Abdelghani Meskini, later convicted in a failed plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport, arrived in Everett as a stowaway on an Algerian LNG carrier.