Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed told a U.N. Security Council debate on Somalia his embattled nation faced "two evils, the scourge of piracy and the plague of terrorism" with common roots in lawlessness, poverty and religious fanaticism.
"Not only are these two ills working in tandem, but they are learning from each other," Mohamed said.
"It will not surprise us if al Qaeda's agents in Somalia start hijacking tankers in the high seas and use them as deadly weapons," along the lines of the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington using hijacked airliners, he said.
"Why bother with a small plane when you can capture a tanker?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110310/wl_nm/us_somalia_un
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