This past weekend, Saudi Arabia rounded up, arrested or kiled, 7 terrrorist cells, linked to Al-Queda, totaling 172 men, dug up caches of weapons and explosives , and $5+ MILLION from the desert sands.
Their reported training, recently, in IRAQ.
Their reported goals, destruction of Saudi OIL PRODUCTION, in hijacked airliner-style attacks (a-la-9/11).
Just how much Saudi oil production would have to be destroyed to immediately send the price of a barrell of oil to $100+???
I'd wager that 172 guys, in a number of aircraft, could destroy PLENTY of it.
Try $6 a gallon gasoline.
$7 a gallon diesel.
Double the cost of heating oil.
Try adding 50% to doubling the cost of just about everything due to that doubled diesel fuel transport cost.
Still gonna buy an airline ticket when the price of THAT sucker doubles from the doubled fuel cost?
Still gonna DRIVE on that vacation at double the gasoline cost?
Apparently our govt has (very rightly) been "war-gaming" the war on terror, to try to predict moves, to try to come up with counter-moves to terrorist acts, and the one thing they haven't been able to find a work-arround to is a sudden spike in oil pricing to $11-$120 a barrell. The US economy FOLDS.
They don't have to come HERE Ultra, this should concern you.
Smokin,
I'm not buyin it. Here area couple of paragraphs from the article:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia announced Friday that an anti-terrorism sweep netted 172 Islamic extremists and stopped plans to mount air attacks on the kingdom's oil refineries, break militants out of jail and send suicide attackers to kill government officials.
oil refineries.
The militants were detained in successive waves, with one group confessing and leading security officials to another group as well as caches of weapons, al-Turki said. He told the privately owned Al-Arabiya television channel that some of those arrested were not Saudis.
Since when do these martyr, suicide types roll over on themselves?
Sounds like hype to me
Smokin, we keep hearing that we are in Iraq fighting terrorists so that we don't have to fight them on US soil. Isn't this what Mr. Bush wants us all to believe? IMO it's all political BS about US control of mid-east oil. The tens of thousands of people killed in this mislabled war doesn't follow the one of the basics of the Chrstian faith. KILLING PEOPLE! The US troops have done a fine job in Iraq and the mess we have created in Iraq is surely not the fault of our troops. The belief that the US military is going to bring piece to a region where groups have been at odds with each other forever, is unrealistic. We will never be able to desttroy all of the terrorists, and therefore they will alwyas exist. The Iraqi offensive is doing little in the way of defense of the American people here at home. Secure our borders Secure our borders Secure our borders . The
1st basic is protecting our country continues to be ignored.