Suicide Bomb Plot on Oil Facilities Thwarted
From Times Wire Reports
Officials foiled a suicide bomb plot to blow up two oil facilities, days after Al Qaeda threatened to strike facilities in the Persian Gulf. The four attackers and a guard were killed.
Prime Minister Abdul-Kadir Ba Jamal said “investigators have uncovered all the details related to the two operations and the identity of the perpetrators,” the official news agency said.
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