Word: tankerous
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...American terrorist attack ever staged in Kuwait, a country that has been steadfastly pro-American since U.S. forces led the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq's occupation in 1991. But the Falaika incident, preceded by what now appears to have been a suicide attack last weekend on an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, and followed by an attempted attack on a Humvee carrying U.S. troops in Kuwait a day later, may be an ominous signal that al-Qaeda intends to make the most of America's growing confrontation with Iraq. An obviously shaken Kuwaiti government launched a sweep...
...Kuwait attack follows an incident on Sunday in which the French oil tanker Limburg exploded in waters off Yemen. Although investigators are still probing the cause of the blast, European officials believe it was a terrorist attack by an explosive-laden skiff - similar to the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, also off Yemen, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden and an area where his movement remains popular. The tanker blast came a day after the Qatari al-Jazeera cable network broadcast what it claimed was an audio tape from bin Laden warning of attacks on Western economic interests...
...transfers from a suspected Islamist named Rachid Ramda, as well as the duo's own detailed accounting of how that money was spent to prepare strikes. Terrorist attacks are relatively inexpensive. According to investigators' estimates, the entire 1995 Paris campaign cost no more than $19,000, while the gas-tanker bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia by an al-Qaeda assailant in April this year, which killed 21, cost a fraction of that. Ramda was arrested in 1995 on evidence that he was the financier behind the French bombings, but British authorities have repeatedly refused to extradite...
...days is how long a newborn has to spend in Los Angeles to exceed the U.S. government's limit on lifetime acceptable exposure to toxic air pollution, according to a study by the National Environmental Trust 55,553 liters is how much aviation-grade fuel was in a tanker truck headed for the U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, when nine concealed sticks of dynamite were discovered inside by police 25 years is how long a German man lived in an Australian bus shelter before he died last week $9 million is the bounty Osama bin Laden offered...
...Helicopters and tanker airplanes can drop water or chemical retardants to slow the spread of flames...