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NEW DYNAMICS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION
LTTE Suicide Craft
After the attack of USS Cole by Al Qaeda in Yemen port in year 2000
which is considered as a similar attack on SLN Surveillance Command
Ship SLNS Abeetha by the LTTE in 1991, the giant volcano of maritime
terrorism irrupted in the IOR. Two years later in 2002, terrorist struck on
French oil tanker MV Limburg in the Gulf of Aden followed by the attack
on Super Ferry 14 off the coast of Philipines in 2004 and Mumbai attack
in 2008 by another terrorist group. The attack on a Japanese tanker
M-STAR in 2010 and attempt hijacking of Pakistani frigate PNS Zulfiqar in
2014 to attack the US Navy fleet also reemphasized the maritime threat
to the safety of the IOR.
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