(Guardian - UK) - A huge explosion Sunday left a French supertanker blazing off the Yemeni coast. "The crew saw a high-speed vessel approaching on the starboard side - an explosion followed," said Jacques Moizan, director of Euronav, which owns the tanker. The blast occurred two years after a small boat loaded with explosives rammed the U.S. Navy warship Cole in the harbor at Aden, killing 17 American sailors, in an attack U.S. officials attribute to al Qaeda.
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