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Saudi Arabia - Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attack on oil facility
AFP via Babelfish translation | February 24, 2006

Posted on 02/24/2006 4:01:50 PM PST by HAL9000

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1 posted on 02/24/2006 4:01:52 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

What a shock! I suspected Mormons.


2 posted on 02/24/2006 4:04:14 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

The JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS did it.


3 posted on 02/24/2006 4:05:26 PM PST by jmc1969
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To: Dog Gone

or catholics


4 posted on 02/24/2006 4:05:32 PM PST by tbird5
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To: Dog Gone

Or "youths".


5 posted on 02/24/2006 4:06:42 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: HAL9000

What is the chance that all of the attackers were Middle-Eastern young males between the ages of 18-40?

Thought I'd ask.


6 posted on 02/24/2006 4:07:43 PM PST by TWohlford
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ON THE NET...

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "TERRORISTS ATTACK SAUDI OIL FACILITY (Updated)" ) (February 24, 2006)

INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com: "INTELLIGENCE WATCH" (February 24, 2006)

JAMESTOWN.org (Terrorism Monitor, February 23) - News: "SAUDI OIL FACILITIES: AL-QAEDA'S NEXT TARGET?" (February 24, 2006)

TRAVEL.STATE.GOV - TRAVEL WARNING: "SAUDI ARABIA"

7 posted on 02/24/2006 4:08:16 PM PST by Cindy
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To: HAL9000

AQ must be really desperate if they're attacking their safe havens. Their strategy of war by attrition in Iraq has failed. Now we see them employing a strategy designed to foment civil war. This will ultimately fail as well. Liberty, once achieved, is seldom surrendered.


8 posted on 02/24/2006 4:11:54 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: TWohlford

Probably the Danes.


9 posted on 02/24/2006 4:11:58 PM PST by midwyf (Eliminate government involvement in the environmental religion too.)
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To: jmc1969

Skin heads. Nazis, dirty commies, maoist, chicoms, boneheads, idiots, Jacko, goons, but nobody will point the finger at the hump backed grave digger who dropped the brain on the floor then grabed the flask with the brain marked criminal brain. This is probably the guy behind this latest attack.


10 posted on 02/24/2006 4:13:19 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Dog Gone; HAL9000
"What a shock! I suspected Mormons."

... or maybe self aware computers? or maybe it was Dave?

11 posted on 02/24/2006 4:14:45 PM PST by R W Reactionairy ("Everyone is entitled to their own opinion ... but not to their own facts" Daniel Patrick Monihan)
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To: REDWOOD99

We have to remember Abu has preached all along that all the monarchs and kings and governments in the ME must fall, and a pure caliph state be created. al-Qaeda is against all forms of secular ran regiems. They want pure Sharia law to run the muslim countries. The Saudi monarchs wealthy from western money are a polar opposite to what al-Qaeda wants.


12 posted on 02/24/2006 4:16:33 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Dog Gone

"What a shock! I suspected Mormons."

Nah, we're too busy marrying multiple wives and holding punch and green jello mixers to get involved in something like this. Kidding on the first one. We don't do that anymore.


13 posted on 02/24/2006 4:19:47 PM PST by MikeA (New York owes America an apology for Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer)
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To: Marine_Uncle

AQ is hoping that the masses will rise up in support of them. Attacking the Saudi gov't is Helter-Skelter AQ-style. The attack isn't the goal- the goal is the uprising they anticipate.


14 posted on 02/24/2006 4:19:52 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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I think the thing we might be overlooking is that even Saudi Arabia is not a safe haven for al-qaida anymore.

They're getting pinned down. The frontier areas of Pakistan are the best place to hide. Otherwise, it's down to Syria, Iran, and a few neighborhoods in Iraq.


15 posted on 02/24/2006 4:20:41 PM PST by Dog Gone
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AQ keeps trying the same tactics and getting the same result: They are not gaining popular support- they are turning it against themselves. This is the definition of insanity. And failure.


16 posted on 02/24/2006 4:25:02 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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". The attack isn't the goal- the goal is the uprising they anticipate."
Good replie. But somehow I think the majority of Saudis love the oil money that makes their lives so comfortable. Regardless of the rather slouching off of lately in their socialist sponsored programs. But one never knows what these goons will do from minute to minute.
17 posted on 02/24/2006 4:27:13 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Dog Gone

As to the ME, true. Africa, Indonesia and the Phillipines are also havens, of sorts. The WOT is being fought there as well but one thing is for certain--there's been a huge effin' dent put into their operations. That said, I'm glad they have gone after SA. It will make the House of Saud more resolute (putting aside the sympathizers within said House) and they don't have the ACLU, MSM and 'rat party holding them back...


18 posted on 02/24/2006 4:28:44 PM PST by eureka! (Hey Lefties and 'Rats: 3 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
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To: HAL9000

Seems to me that a while back some stupid minister in Saudi Arabia said their problems with terrorists was solved and that ther were no more in that craphole of a kingdom.


19 posted on 02/24/2006 4:30:10 PM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: HAL9000

At least it wasn't the Yobs or the Hooligans!


20 posted on 02/24/2006 4:31:43 PM PST by n230099
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