Posted on 08/11/2004 3:38:17 AM PDT by KMC1
FYI and FYP (For Your Prayers)
Do they mean a political figure in Saudi, i.e. one of the Royal Family, or does it mean a US political figure that will be visitng Saudi or Yemen?
In which case, how many high ranking political figures do we expect to be visiting Saudi or Yemen before the elections???
Seems a bizarre scenario to me.
fyi..
I remember the charismatic leader of anti-taliban movement was assinated by Al-Queda just days before 9-11.
You read it wrong.......imagine the turmoil in the oil markets if the leader of the Saudi Royal family is killed.
$75 a barrel.....not $45.
Well, they just surrounded the building next to mine in concrete barriers.
Such is life in the big city, nowadays.
these terror warnings are terribly frightening. it's like waiting for the other shoe to drop....should we be afraid, can we trust our government to protect us?
i just don't know, somehow this seems more chilling than the others.
I think Al Qeada is determined to follow the Madrid model to affect the election and that an attack is likely and one or more may succeed. As good as Irael is at fighting terrorists, some attacks still succeed.
BINGO!
Take out Prince Bandar or King Fahd and see what kind of market meltdown ensues. Now, at the same time, take out the Chicago board of trade or the NY Mercantile exchange......
Pretty ugly scenario I would say. I think that your figure of $75.00 is understated here.
According to Teresa Heinz, we should just get used to terrorism. After all, the Europeans are used to it.
Can we trust this Administration to try to protect us? Absolutely.
Can we trust this or any other Administration to completely protect us from evil? Of course not. It's impossible.
Just go about your daily life.....but be aware of things around you..
I read an article just yesterday in the Wash Times about the price of oil. And some experts felt that any kind of strategic event (e.g., assassinations as described above) that would spike the price of oil would lead the U.S. and other nations to release their strategic petroleum reserves - to prevent worldwide fuel shortages and runaway inflation.
"...how many high ranking political figures do we expect to be visiting Saudi or Yemen"
Well, we must have ambassadors there, but I imagine after this nobody is going to be visiting, and the ambassadors might be suddenly planning vacations.
TRUE...
Especially pray they don't try a hit the DNC canidate, they will be trying to blame President Bush every day for the rest of his life. It would be Michael Moore's dream chance at another JFK conspiricy (spelling? half asleep.)
..."would lead the U.S. and other nations to release their strategic petroleum reserves - to prevent worldwide fuel shortages and runaway inflation."
The strategic petroleum reserves are not nearly enough to address the psychological effect of the actions I previously described.
The market behaves in a chaotic fashion at best. Also, systems (in this case the market for energy, not only oil) go from order to disorder in an orderly fashion {kindly review Chaos theory) in times where you reach a significant flow-point differential (fluid dynamics).
Stress the system in a fashion that creates a huge delta and the disorder itself becomes disorderly, thereby creating a total meltdown in ALL systems (Bleed-over/cross-talk).
a TRULY UGLY SCENARIO.
I'll see if I can find the article, because some smart people do not agree with you.
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