***** $32 million dollars confiscated, all those weapons and 172 militants arrested over the months. Nice work by the Saudis. Scary that they were training to fly planes again for their attacks. Would be the best way for them to hit something like Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. ***** 172 Militants Planning Attack on Oil Fields Arrested in Saudi Arabia Friday , April 27, 2007 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Police have arrested 172 militants who were plotting to attack Saudi Arabia's oil fields, storm its prisons to free the inmates and use aircraft in their attacks, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday. The militants planned to carry out suicide attacks against "public figures, oil facilities, refineries ... and military zones." The statement said some of the military targets were outside the kingdom, but it did not elaborate. Some of the militants were being trained to fly aircraft in their attacks, the statement added, raising the spectre of more attacks like Sept. 11, 2001 in which Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked passenger planes and flew them into buildings in New York and Washington. These militants had been "sent to other countries to study flying in preparation for using them to carry out terrorist attacks inside the kingdom," the statement said. The Saudi state TV channel Al-Ekhbariah broadcast footage of a large quantity of weapons discovered buried in the desert. The arms included AK-47 rifles and other rifles, brickettes of plastic explosives, AK-47 magazines, handguns and rifles wrapped in plastic sheeting. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Mansour al-Turki told the privately-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel that the militants included non-Saudis and that one cell planned to storm a prison and release the inmates. The ministry statement said more than 120 million riyals (US$32.4 million) had been seized in the operation, one of the largest sweeps against terror cells in the kingdoms. Al-Ekhbariah showed investigators breaking tiled floors with hammers to uncover pipes that contained weapons. In one scene, an official upends a plastic pipe and bullets and little packets of plastic explosives spill out. The channel also showed investigators digging up plastic sacks in the desert. The Al Qaeda terror group, whose leader Usama bin Laden is a Saudi, has called for attacks on the kingdom's oil facilities as a means of crippling both the kingdom's economy and the hurting the West, whom he accuses of paying too little for Arab oil. ------------------------------------------------ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268941,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/27/Saudi.arrests.ap/index.html
None of you see this worth discussing? I find it has "huge" news. A hell of a bust, and shows their plans of what to attack and how in Saudi Arabia. They don't believe they can make it through the security protecting refineries such as those in Rastanura, or compounds like Aramco. So they are trying to use planes once again. Thankgod the Saudi Gov. is now active against terrorism. (ever since that attack at a compound that killed only Saudi's and Egyptians. Al-qaida's big f'up....oh and their recent requests for attacks with in saudi to target the economy of saudi and the west. )
The world is a confusing place. I would never support a fundamentalist uprising that would spread misery and diminish personal freedom. Then again the Saudi regime is a repressive caliphate where privilege is determined by birth and secured by a cartel economy that drains resources from the rest of the world. And where some who actually support terrorism in other parts of the world are protected by the government. And we are screwed either way. A more democratic Saudi would be a more radical, anti-western Saudi. I wonder how many of these dudes will be beheaded by the weekend?
No being the libpig that I am I'm too busy figuring out how to blame the Rockets lack of offense on GW Bush. Seriously though good work on the Saudis part but the thing that troubles me about something like this is how much internal support these terrorists might have been getting in Saudi Arabia itself.
I think this is like the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen you take a mistake like that on the website and call the people at CNN idiots. Don't remember you feeling the same way about Fox when they repeatedly called Mark Foley a Democrat. Oh, but that wasn't a mistake, my bad.
No sir, you have me mistaken. IIRC, I'm not one to call them out constantly for their errors. (I don't post in the D&D much.....and I would have said the same thing about FOX news had they said Riyadh, Egypt.....) Nice try though....
nice work, but the best thing to happen for the saudi people would be for their government to collapse... of course i hope it doesn't happen until we are oil free.
No, that would be the worst thing that could happen. The Saud dynasty has done some great things for their people, they would still be camel-riding Bedouins if it wasn't for King Saud and his kids/grandkids. Who gives a crap? You don't want a democracy in Saudi, the world doesn't want it and they fear it, and for good reason.
i realize my previous 2 posts seem to contradict each other.... it's a shame the sarcasm wasn't stronger. why don't i or the world want democracy in saudi arabia? what do we have to fear? and can you give credit to the saudi royal family or our oil companies for vastly improving their economy? same for iran? <-- genuine questions.
Because in Saudi, religious zealotry will trump any lofty humanistic concept like freedom. A Whahabbi parliment would make Iran look like our best friends. Greed often trumps common good elsewhere in the world too. Democracy is anti-instinctual.
