Evidence mounts Yemen explosion was terrorism

Evidence mounted today that an explosion on a French tanker off Yemen was caused by terrorists, and experts suggested it could be the work of a freelance terror cell sympathetic to al-Qaida.

A day after US officials called the blast a terrorist act by people linked to al-Qaida, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie cast off any lingering theories of an accidental explosion, saying “parts of a small boat and traces of TNT were found inside the tanker.”