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Al Qaeda targets US oil supplies

Analysts say the Saudi attack could be a new tactic aimed at slowing the US economy.

By Faiza Saleh Ambah | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA – In two deadly attacks here in the past month, analysts see Al Qaeda-linked groups adopting new tactics and targets - encouraging self-organizing cells to hit soft targets in an effort to drive away Western oil workers, damage the Saudi petroleum industry, and slow the US economy.
Despite the weekend attack in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern province in which 22 people were killed, oil operations continued uninterrupted Monday amid heightened security.

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NEW YORK, June 01 (Online): A captured Al Qaeda leader wanted an American-born terror suspect to join a plot to blow up fuel stations outside Baltimore, a media report said quoting an FBI document.
According to Press Trust of India, an Al Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed wanted Adam Yahiye Gadahn, one of the seven terror suspects named by Attorney General John Ashcroft, to join a plot to cause unrest in the United States, 'Newsweek' magazine reported.

Khalid said Gadahn had a pregnant Muslim wife and was not eager to participate in "martyrdom" (suicide) operations, the report said quoting the May 2003 FBI document.

Gadahn, who had taken the name Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, was last seen in Karachi in October 2002, the document quotes Khalid as saying.

Khalid was captured in Pakistan and taken into custody in March 2003.

During interrogation he said the tightened security after September 11, 2001 attacks had forced Al Qaeda to rethink its strategy for penetrating the United States.

The terror network needed operatives with US passports and had begun trying to recruit native-born Americans, looking for those living abroad who had converted to Islam or black Muslims inside the US, the report said.

According to Qari Saheb, a former driver for Taliban leader Mullah Omar, interviewed in January 2002 by Newsweek, Gadahn befriended John Walker Lindh, known as the "American Taliban" after his capture in the Afghan war.

Gadahn had offered to help Lindh find a Muslim wife-his own wife's sister. Lindh was interested, but told Gadahn that he would marry only when he returned from the front lines. He wound up in an American prison, PTI reports

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U.S.: Padilla Trained to Kill Hundreds

By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla is a trained terrorist who met with top al-Qaida leaders, discussed detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States and accepted an assignment to use natural gas to blow up high-rise apartment buildings, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday.

The disclosure by Deputy Attorney General James Comey, based on interrogations with Padilla and other suspected al-Qaida operatives, came two years after the arrest of the suspected "dirty bomber." It was meant to answer criticism that the government overreached in arresting a U.S. citizen and denying him normal access to the court system.