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Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Attack on M Star Oil Tanker

By Sean Osborne

by Sean Osborne, Associate Director 10 August 2010: Responsibility for the 28 July terrorist attack on the Japanese-owned VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) M Star in the Strait of Hormuz has been claimed by the Al Qaeda-affiliated group known as “Abdullah Azzam Brigades” (AAB hereafter). The AAB further claims the attack was a suicide mission launched by a smaller cell named after the long-deceased (2003) Saudi Arabian AQ terrorist and former Usama bin Laden bodyguard, Yusuf AL-UYEYRI and names Ayyub AL-TAISHAN as the lone terrorist who, after midnight on Wednesday, 27 July, piloted some non-descript type explosive laden craft from an undiclosed location near the Strait of Hormuz and then detonated it alongside the VLCC M Star. Also within this claim of responsibility the AAB states the attack was to avenge the imprisonment of Islamic terrorist Sheikh Omar Adbel RAHMAN...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).