Al-Qaida 'plan to hit oil tankers'

Al-Qaida was considering targeting oil tankers in terror attacks to damage Western economies, US officials say.

The terror group was looking at plots to hijack oil tankers in non-Muslim waters and blow them up, according to an intelligence bulletin obtained by the Associated Press.

There is no intelligence pointing to a specific plot or threat.

It was not immediately clear whether the details about the attack method were coming from Osama bin Laden’s compound.

US intelligence officials are sifting through a treasure trove of information coming out of materials taken from the former terror leader’s hideout in Pakistan earlier this month after he was shot and killed by Navy SEALs.