Better Late than Never:

Those with long memories may remember an event last July when a Japanese tanker suffered damage from — something that exploded. Mine? Shell? Torpedo? Collision? At first there was a lot of denial, but evetually it was interpreted as a potential terrorist attack. My earlier posts are here.

Now the United States has weighed in and warned that it was a terrorist attack.

I'm sure the world's tanker traffic is grateful to know this. Four months later. To be fair, though, everyone concerned with oil security has been aware of this for some time.