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on Fri Jul 19 15:55:57 2013, in response to EUEUEUEUEU Olog, posted by RockParkMan on Sat Nov 12 14:58:17 2011.
fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, it's true. Just look at page 30 of this document.
Scenario 5: Threats to critical infrastructure overseasRisk/threat: Having come to power a few years previously in a nearby country long wracked by instability and turmoil, Islamist jihadis set up artillery and rocket batteries along the Suez Canal. They demand what they describe as ‘taxes’ and ‘tolls’ from passing commercial vessels, cruise liners and oil/gas tankers for use of the canal. Threatening to open fire on any vessel failing to stop and pay the ransom, the jihadis announce a deadline for when ships have to start to pay. Insurance premiums go through the roof, with some companies sending their ships around the Cape of Good Hope — with the resulting growth in cost, time and carbon emissions. European shipping corporations, energy companies and businesses demand action.
Response: Europeans would have to conduct air and naval strikes against the jihadis to rapidly disable their relatively primitive anti-ship systems in an extended defense operation to protect one of their most precious pieces of overseas infrastructure along which almost all of their trade to and from the Middle East and Asia passes.
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