{"id":5661,"date":"2019-06-07T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2019-06-07T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T04:43:08","slug":"state-actor-behind-uae-tanker-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"&#8218;State actor&#8216; behind UAE tanker attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-48551125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United Arab Emirates has told the UN Security Council that a &#8222;state actor&#8220; was most likely behind attacks on four tankers off its coast.<\/p>\n<p>The May 12 attacks bore the hallmarks of a &#8222;sophisticated and coordinated operation,&#8220; according to its report.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE did not say who it thought was behind the attacks, which also targeted vessels from Saudi Arabia and Norway.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The new UAE-led probe found a &#8222;high degree of sophistication&#8220; behind the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The attacks required the expert navigation of fast boats&#8220; which &#8222;were able to intrude into UAE territorial waters,&#8220; the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Divers were used to attack the ships using limpet mines in order to cause damage but not cause a major explosion, the presentation stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The United Arab Emirates has told the UN Security Council that a &#8222;state actor&#8220; was most likely behind attacks on four tankers off its coast. The May 12 attacks bore the hallmarks of a &#8222;sophisticated and coordinated operation,&#8220; according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5661\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}