Posted on 03/03/2006 4:04:17 AM PST by voletti
* Group advises disrupting oil supplies best way to hurt US economy and destabilise Saudi royal family
DUBAI: Al Qaeda has advised followers to attack pipelines in Saudi Arabia and Iraq but to steer clear of oil wells because they are the lifeline of Muslim states, according to a two-year-old document recently posted on the web.
The guidelines in Al Qaeda’s war against “crusaders” and US-allied governments were laid out in a manifesto written by Abdulaziz al-Enezi, arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and described by the Saudis as a prominent ideologue of Al Qaeda.
In the manifesto, which was recently posted on an Islamist website, Enezi said disrupting oil supplies was the best way to hurt the US economy and destabilise the Saudi royal family.
The document said Saudi state-owned refineries and oil pipelines and Iraqi facilities were “all in the hands of infidels”.
“It is permissible to target oil interests held by infidels ... including American and Western oil tankers,” Enezi said.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, has since 2003 been battling Al Qaeda militants bent on toppling the pro-US monarchy and expelling Westerners from the birthplace of Islam.
Al Qaeda claimed a foiled suicide attack on an oil facility last week in the kingdom and vowed more attacks in response to a call by their leader Osama bin Laden to target oil installations.
The attempted assault on the world’s largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq was the first direct attack on a major oil Saudi target and sent jitters through international oil markets.
Fares bin Houzam, an expert on Al Qaeda, told Reuters that Enezi had been considered Saudi Al Qaeda’s “information minister” and a spiritual guide to the group.
Enezi said oil pipelines were the easiest targets because they were hard to protect, less costly to fix and attacks on them did not rob Muslims of their oil wealth.
“Targeting oil pipelines is of huge benefit in spiting the enemies ... pipelines may well be the frontline in a long-term war of attrition on oil and its interests,” he said.
In Iraq, repeated attacks by insurgents on pipelines in the north have made it difficult for the country to boost its oil exports, the main source of government revenue.
Enezi said government-owned refineries and oil plants were also good targets. But the Al Qaeda idealogue said oil wells should be avoided because any attack on them would cause economic and environmental damage to the people of the country.
“The wells will be needed when the Muslim nation is victorious and retakes its possessions and would be very costly to repair,” he said.
A successful strike on the Saudi oil industry would be a major coup for Al Qaeda, hitting at the heart of a decades-old US-Saudi alliance, and a nightmare for oil consumer nations as the kingdom accounts for around a sixth of the world’s exports. reuters
Can we please start increasing domestic drilling?!!!
The wells will be needed when the Muslim nation is victorious and retakes its possessions and would be very costly to repair,” he said
I see AL QUAEDA has militants taking Economics 101 educational classes in our colleges here in America.If they blow up the pipelines that tie the wells together and they are victorious,they'll never figure out how to weld and put it back together again.They'll need to take classes in welding at one of our local colleges here.
The wells will be needed when the Muslim nation is victorious and retakes its possessions and would be very costly to repair,” he said
I see AL QUAEDA has militants taking Economics 101 educational classes in our colleges here in America.If they blow up the pipelines that tie the wells together and they are victorious,they'll never figure out how to weld and put it back together again.They'll need to take classes in welding at one of our local colleges here.
OOPs1 sorry --2 posts
I second that. I am not talking about Alaska. I am talking about drilling for oil in mainland U.S.
LMAO...
Let's do both! I wonder when people will wake up on this. Probably after the economy tanks.
All pipewelders come from Texas and Oklahoma. Pipewelding is not just a learned skill, but a talent--not for everyone.
All pipewelders come from Texas and Oklahoma. Pipewelding is not just a learned skill, but a talent--not for everyone.
I know (shhh!!! I'm a pipeliner and I was just bumping my trade up a little),But I ain't teaching 'em nothing and I'm not going to no more Arab countries,(but while we're talking,what kinda money ya got in mind?)they don't like me...and I don't like them.It's already been agreed between the two of us.
All pipewelders come from Texas and Oklahoma. Pipewelding is not just a learned skill, but a talent--not for everyone.
I know (shhh!!! I'm a pipeliner and I was just bumping my trade up a little),But I ain't teaching 'em nothing and I'm not going to no more Arab countries,(but while we're talking,what kinda money ya got in mind?)they don't like me...and I don't like them.It's already been agreed between the two of us.
Sinclair Oil in Utah is kind of an exception. They pump oil and refine it in Utah. It doesn't have to be shipped in from the other side of the world.
But I do agree with you. We should be sinking oil wells everywhere we find it. Screw the caribou.
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Those figures are from the early 1970's, they are over three and a half decades out of out date.
Oil drilling technology has come a long way since then.
Since, with modern technology, oil drilling companies can make a profit from drilling oil a mile down in the middle of the ocean and other two miles of bedrock, they can make a profit pulling oil up in the mainland U.S. of A.
Those figures are from the early 1970's, they are over three and a half decades out of out date.
Oil drilling technology has come a long way since then.
Since, with modern technology, oil drilling companies can make a profit from drilling oil a mile down in the middle of the ocean and another two miles of bedrock, they can make a profit pulling oil up in the mainland U.S. of A.
As I said, I do agree with you. We should be drilling everywhere we find the stuff.
Screw the greens.
L
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