Open AccessTerrorist Attacks on the Energy Sector as a Strategy of Al Qaeda in the Middle East and North Africa
Author(s) -
Lukáš Tichý
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
obrana a strategie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.107
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 1802-7199
pISSN - 1214-6463
DOI - 10.3849/1802-7199.16.2016.02.063-082
Subject(s) - al qaeda , terrorism , middle east , energy sector , political science , energy security , energy (signal processing) , economy , law , economics , engineering , economic system , physics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics , renewable energy
The article discusses the relationship of the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda to issue of the attacks focused on energy sector and their specific manifestations in the Middle East and North Africa. The first aim is to analyze the importance that al-Qaeda attaches to the attacks targeted at the energy sector. The second aim is to describe the main forms, examples, goals and motives of the attacks aimed at the energy sector realized by al-Qaeda in selected countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Syria and Yemen. The third aim is to analyze impact of al-Qaeda attacks against the energy sector and infrastructure on the energy security