Abu Dhabi to offer armed escorts to oil tankers

27 September 2010

Critical National Infrastructure Authority is tasked with protecting the capital’s major facilities

Abu Dhabi’s Critical National Infrastructure Authority (CNIA), the body tasked with protecting the capital’s major facilities, has announced it will provide escorts to oil tankers travelling in the emirate’s waters if they feel threatened by a potential attack, The National has reported. “As the CNIA we are responsible for the territorial waters in the emirate of Abu Dhabi,” Staff Brigadier Pilot Faris al-Mazrouei, CNIA chairman said. “Any company or government body might raise the security level, and we are completely responsible with carrying out that level.” he said.

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