{"id":388171,"date":"2010-03-04T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/terror-alert-up-in-malacca-straits-due-to-warnings-on-oil-tanker-attacks-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:13:00","slug":"tanker-terror-alert-in-crucial-shipping-lane-the-straits-of-malacca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388171","title":{"rendered":"Tanker Terror Alert In Crucial Shipping Lane The Straits Of Malacca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for terrorist attacks have increased in the Straits of Malacca as a result of intelligence suggesting plans for attacks on oil tankers are imminent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/BreakingNews\/SEAsia\/Story\/STIStory_497928.html\">according to The Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Straits of Malacca are a key shipping route for goods in Asia, particularly oil, and this latest threat level increase has put Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia on a front footing.<\/p>\n<p>There is concern that the threat of an attack could have an impact on trade in what is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.container-mag.com\/images\/Numericalranking09.pdf\">world&#8217;s top container port, Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the new Horn of Africa?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8fcd007f8b9a8159320600\/malacca.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Malacca\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/terror-alert-up-in-malacca-straits-due-to-warnings-on-oil-tanker-attacks-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-reality-check-the-only-difference-between-joe-stack-and-osama-bin-laden-is-that-bin-laden-succeeded-2010-2\">REALITY CHECK: The Only Difference Between Joe Stack And Osama Bin Laden Is That Bin Laden Was Successful<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photo-of-joe-stack-2010-2\">Photo Of Austin Suicide Pilot Joe Stack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/who-took-down-austin-plane-crash-pilot-joe-stacks-online-manifesto-2010-2\">The FBI Didn&#8217;t Take Down Austin Plane Crash Pilot Joe Stack&#8217;s Online Manifesto<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/yIc_Rjd89Ns\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for terrorist attacks have increased in the Straits of Malacca as a result of intelligence suggesting plans for attacks on oil tankers are imminent, according to The Straits Times. The Straits of Malacca are a key shipping route for goods in Asia, particularly oil, and this latest threat level increase has put Singapore, Malaysia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}