Posted on 09/10/2014 11:21:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
It is in that direction that the battle for control of the world’s largest oil fields is currently heading.
Islamic State -- which has its origins in al-Qaeda – knows fully well that in order to sustain itself as a viable and lasting religious, political, economic and military entity in the region, it has to follow the same objectives established by al-Qaeda when Osama bin Laden broke off his relations with the Saudi monarchy and vowed to bring down the House of Saud.
Bin Laden’s ire at the Saudi monarchy stemmed from the fact that Saudi King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud invited the American military to use Saudi Arabia as a staging area to build up forces to take on the then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after Iraqi troops occupied Kuwait in August of 1990. Bin Laden objected to the presence of “infidels” in the land of the two holy mosques, and asked the king to allow his outfit to tackle Saddam Hussein’s troops.
Similarly, IS knows that it will only feel secure once Saudi Arabia is part of the Caliphate, and its oil fields are under IS control -- which is why the group has two logical next steps.
First, to capture and secure the most important country in the Muslim world: Saudi Arabia.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
I remember Pope John Paul II warning the first George Bush that going to war in Kuwait will set into motion events that cannot now be calculated.
I hear they are selling oil on the black market for $40 per barrel to the tune of millions of $ per month. Calaphates cost $.
And it appears the Pope was right.
As far as I’m concerned, we have no friends or allies in muslim nations.
And nothing we do there will amount to anything. Leave them to murder and behead each other.
I agree. Stop buying their oil and see what happens.
Fine; let them have them. Then we’ll destroy all the oil wells in Arabia, for good.
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