AP Exclusive: Terror Attack on LNG Vessel Could Produce Injury, Damage a Mile Away
A terror attack on a tanker delivering liquefied natural gas at a U.S. port could set off a fire so hot it would burn skin and damage buildings nearly a mile away, government scientists say in a report expected to influence where new multibillion-dollar terminals will be built.
The report from a government nuclear weapons lab, a 160-page unclassified version of which was obtained Monday by The Associated Press, characterizes an LNG tanker spill from a terror attack as a low probability. If successful, however, it would become “a high consequence event” that could produce massive injuries and property damage, the report said.
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I doubt this is telling them anything they don’t already know. It’s been a Coast Guard nightmare for years. One of the most chilling reports on terrorists I ever read concerned some pirates in Indonesian waters who boarded a supertanker and controlled it for several hours, then left. It sounded like a rehearsal for just such a strike. That was IIRC, two years or so ago.