"Al Qaeda has announced its campaign to destroy the Saudi oil industry is just beginning; a new network formed for that very purpose will keep on trying. This threat is taken seriously in Riyadh given the ravages al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents are creating across the border: Iraq's oil industry is down to one-third of its capacity at best. The Abqaiq and the Ras Tanura terminals are well protected, but it is impossible to guard thousands of kilometers of oil and gas pipeline, the pumping stations along their route and the small installations around the kingdom. Saudi rulers were particularly upset to discover that the would-be Abqaiq bomber cell must have developed secret connections in the National Guard guarding the oil fields and the Aramco company's security department. Without them, the two or three bomb cars could not have reached the gates of the complex."
What can they expect from their "loyal" security forces, when the vast majority of the population they are recruited from views Osama as an Islamic warrior and, in the mosques every Friday, Wahhabi imams preach hatred of infidels (including Muslims who do not adhere to the extremist Salafist credo such as most of the Saudi royals) and support for jihadists who attack them. David Bier http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=1985 Saudis rudely awakened by new al Qaeda network targeting their oil industry. Two attackers killed February 27, 2006, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00) The failed al Qaeda attack on the Abqaiq processing plant in the kingdom's eastern province of Dammam Friday, Feb. 24, has badly shaken the Riyadh government, certain it had wiped out Osama bin Laden's major Saudi networks except for small, fairly inert cells. The shock-effect was such that Sunday, the Saudi stock exchange plunged 1000 points, the 5% legal maximum. Saudi guards detonated the two suicide cars targeting the giant refinery well outside the gates, suffering two casualties themselves. However, had the attack gone through, it would have caused unspeakable turmoil in the world's oil markets; prices would have shot through the roof. As the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia exports 12 million barrels a day. Seven million barrels are refined at Abqaiq. Al Qaeda has announced its campaign to destroy the Saudi oil industry is just beginning; a new network formed for that very purpose will keep on trying. This threat is taken seriously in Riyadh given the ravages al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents are creating across the border: Iraq's oil industry is down to one-third of its capacity at best. The Abqaiq and the Ras Tanura terminals are well protected, but it is impossible to guard thousands of kilometers of oil and gas pipeline, the pumping stations along their route and the small installations around the kingdom. Saudi rulers were particularly upset to discover that the would-be Abqaiq bomber cell must have developed secret connections in the National Guard guarding the oil fields and the Aramco company's security department. Without them, the two or three bomb cars could not have reached the gates of the complex. This emerged from investigations of the movements of the two of the assailants killed in the thwarted Friday attack, Muhammad Salah al Geith, 23, and Abdullah Tweijari, 21, from Najd. Both figure on the Saudi list of 36 most wanted terrorists. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
