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Al-Qaeda tells fighters to strike Saudi oil targets: website DUBAI : Al-Qaeda told its fighters to attack oil sites and foreign targets in Saudi Arabia, according to a website statement, as the de facto leader of the oil-rich kingdom vowed to eradicate terrorism which he said was tarnishing the image of Islam. "We call on all the mujahedeen to target the sources of oil which do not serve the Islamic nation but serve the enemies of the nation," said a statement attributed to the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula, the Saudi wing of the terror network. Last week Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden issued a call to his fighters to strike oil targets in Iraq and the Gulf, according to an audiotape broadcast on an Islamist website said to be from the top terror mastermind. The desert kingdom, the leading member of OPEC, sits on a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves and is the number one crude exporter. The Al-Qaeda statement dated Saturday also urged militants to "strike all foreign targets and the hideouts of the tyrants to rid the peninsula of the infidels and their supporters. "In the next few days there will be new (operations) in the jihad (holy war) against the tyrants and the enemies of Islam," it warned. Since May last year, Saudi Arabia has been battling a wave of deadly attacks in the ultra-conservative kingdom which have been blamed on supporters of the Saudi-born bin Laden. In the latest attack claimed by Al-Qaeda's Saudi branch, gunmen stormed the US consulate in the commercial capital of Jeddah on December 6, killing five non-American staff and losing four of their number. Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz reiterated his government's determination to eradicate terrorism in the kingdom which he said was tarnishing the image of Islam, the local press reported Sunday. "The deviant group... committed more than terrorism. They tarnished your Islam and distorted your belief before the rest of the world," the kingdom's de facto leader told a group of Saudi dignitaries. The term "deviant group" is used to refer to sympathisers of Al-Qaeda. "We will track them (the terrorists) for another 20, 30, 50 years. We shall not leave them," the prince said. In Thursday's purported bin Laden audiotape posted on an Islamist website, the Western world's most wanted man called on his fighters to strike Gulf oil supplies and warned Saudi leaders they risked a popular uprising. It was the first purported statement from the Al-Qaeda leader, who has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head, since a videotape broadcast on October 29 in which he threatened new attacks on the United States. Thursday's lengthy message also warned Riyadh's rulers that "the people have woken" and laid the blame for deadly unrest gripping the country on the royal family. Saudi national oil giant Aramco said Saturday it was "on alert all the time." Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi has said that Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production capacity to 12.5 million bpd from the current 11 million over the next few years. - AFP ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
