Terrorism seen as likely cause of oil tanker blast

Saturday, October 12, 2002

AL MUKALLA, Yemen -- A terrorist cell sympathetic to the al-Qaida network may have carried out the attack on a French oil tanker in the Arabian Sea, investigators said Friday.

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