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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/markets-energy-nymex-idUSN2027551120110520

Short-covering on news of al Qaeda plot lifts prices

* Dollar gains versus euro on negative Greece news

* Coming up: API stocks data, 4:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday

NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. crude futures ended
higher on Friday as a flurry of short-covering caused prices to
rebound midday from early lows

- after news that al Qaeda had plotted last year to hijack or sink oil tankers to prompt.

<b>The al Qaeda's aim was to cause a rise in prices and
trigger an economic crisis in the West, U.S. officials said,
citing intelligence gathered from Osama bin Laden's compound in
Pakistan </b>


The officials added, however, that there was no indication
of any specific or imminent terrorist attack being plotted.
Before the midday bounce, prices had fallen more than $2 a
barrel, pressured by the strength of the dollar and on
liquidations ahead of the expiration of front-month June
contract CLM1 at the close.

Some analysts said the day's erratic price swings were
probably due to the illiquidity of the June contract and on
technical pressures.
 
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