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The Saudis continue to play their double game, but their arrest of 172 jihadists looks as if it could be a major coup. "Captured Al-Qaeda Militants Confess to Massive Terror Plot," from P.K. Abdul Ghafour for The Arab News:
JEDDAH, 16 May 2007 — The Al-Qaeda network had plans to carry out massive terrorist operations in the scale of 9/11 attacks targeting oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, according to captured militants whose confessions were published in the local media yesterday.Abdullah Al-Muqrin, one of the militants who were involved in planning the foiled attack on the Abqaiq oil refinery on Feb. 24, 2006, said militants, on the directives of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, carried out the suicide bombing. “Targeting the main oil facilities and areas, such as Ras Tanura and Jubail, was how the idea started,” said Muqrin in confessions aired by Saudi Television late Monday night.
Ras Tanura is the Kingdom’s biggest oil export terminal and Jubail is its biggest industrial complex. Both are located on the Gulf coast. Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest oil producer and exporter, supplying about seven million barrels per day.
“We started planning (the attack) but were told to wait for direct instructions from Osama Bin Laden. I asked how we would receive a signal from him; I thought he was in some mountains. They said it would take from six to seven months to get his approval,” Muqrin said.
Another suspect, identified as Khaled Al-Kurdi, said the Al-Qaeda leadership in Saudi Arabia told them that the attacks on oil facilities would be tantamount to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the US.“They said it would be a huge operation, equal to the September strike ... and its impact would be on a global level,” Kurdi said in his statement. “They said attacks would affect oil prices,” he added.
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The attackers sought “to hammer America,” Kurdi added.
The captured Muslim terrorists statements were, no doubt, obtained through peaceful Saudi interrogation techniques....
Bah. There's nothing the Saudis can do now to move them from the enemy column.
They have engaged in all forms of jihad against America including the slaughter of three thousand people on September 11th. If anything, America should be engaged in a war of conquest and colonization in Arabia.
The saudi want to make us thinking that they are good and we can trust them, great mistake!!In addition, the terrorist acts are only ideas, I doubt a lot the reality of these terrorist acts. They are poor and bad trained.
The saudis are interested in combating terror only when it threatens them. If it threatens the outside world, well sucks to be them - here is some cash, build another wahhabi madrassa.
Saudis are not our friends. The trillions of dollars the West gives them paying a monopolist's price to them for oil (not the imperialist's profit as alleged the West makes in buying the oil) needs to immediately end.
It is indeed difficult to explain how trillions of dollars later a little country like Saudi Arabia suffers socio- economic conditions of squalor and poverty that only Islam can cause. How we allow this cesspool of budding murdering thieves and bandits to plot the take over of the world from there while plotting to enslave the rest of the world is beneath contempt!
The West would have probably been better served if the Ben Laden plot was successful. Such success would force the west to alternative sources of fuel anything other than Saudi fuel. Nuclear energy makes alot of sense in our current world. Why are we afraid of nuclear plants that at least we control while the enemy uses the trillions we give them to try to figure out how to nuke us and submit us into slavery? At least the nuclear energy and its dangers will be carefully controlled and managed by us rather than these attacking murderous scum, thieves and bandits.
Saudi nobles will go the way of Musharraf - even if they number 30,000 to 40,000 -- and Musharraf's going along the road to perdition.
A game of "round up the usual suspects".
I'm shocked, shocked that the Saudis would play us like a cheap violin.
What tune?
(Probably not "Rock the Casbah".)
More like "Three Blind Mice".
Bush, Cheney and Rice.
Just one more reason to free ourselves from the dependence we have on the saudis for petroleum. Funny thing though, very little was mentioned about energy self suffinciency during the Republican debates last night. I never heard the "N" word once. Not a word about developing high speed rail using Nuclear power, let alone developing more Nuclear power of electricity. Just think what we would have now if we had spent 800 billion building high speed rail and efficient mass transit instead of hemoraging that wealth in the shit hole of Iraq. If we don't get a REAL leader in this country soon we are doomed indeed.
We have been, especially the past 6 years...
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
...SA used to be tops, but hasn't been in several years now, and it's continuing to drop down the ladder, too.
We've also been in the process on nukes the past couple years, too (we all know that unless we prefer mud huts, it's the way to go).
We're also going with cleaner low-sulfur coal as well (we have more years worth of it than the entire oil producing world has oil).
It's not as fast as we'd like, but it's a lot faster than it has been the past 25 years.