In the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, Richard Clarke, then America’s top counterterrorism official, rushed to get the US Coast Guard to close Boston Harbor. His main fear: Al Qaeda might attack a huge liquid natural gas tanker as it glided past downtown buildings. Mr. Clarke professes to know what few did: that Al Qaeda had used LNG tankers to smuggle agents into Boston from Algeria. He also knew that each ship held as much energy as a nuclear weapon. “Had one of the giant tankers blown up…, it would have wiped out downtown Boston,” Clarke said in his book “Against All Enemies.” Full Story
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