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2003-11-23 Arabia

âMilitants planning to bomb Saudi oil provinceâ

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-23 11:19|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It will be interesting to see whether they hurt the very pipelines that are funding their activities.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-23 11:23:49 AM|| 2003-11-23 11:23:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 If we are unable or unwilling to cut off the source of funding (ooooiiiiiilllll) then this is one way (strange as it is) to do it. I would imagine that all the princes are high cash flow dudes, so drying up the oil revenues should help, IMHO.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-23 1:23:36 PM|| 2003-11-23 1:23:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 It won't mean a thing unless the funding coming from the mosques is shut off, too.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-23 2:03:36 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-23 2:03:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, the top tier of the House of Saud are pretty well invested in Western financial markets. But I'd bet that the rest of the Kingdom would suffer a good deal from a disruption of their oil production.

The royal family is huge now ... they all had a bunch of kids once the oil money started flowing. And of course, not all of them can really live like the oldest generation, but neither do they expect to work for a living in any way.

I think they've backed themselves into a huge corner *within* their family as well as with regard to their overall population.

Posted by rkb 2003-11-23 4:51:33 PM|| 2003-11-23 4:51:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Too bad so much of their wealth goes to formenting external evil of one form or another. It's certainly not the country it could be.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-23 6:10:14 PM|| 2003-11-23 6:10:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It will be interesting to see whether they hurt the very pipelines that are funding their activities.

It's the middle east, what else can they do?

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-23 7:57:39 PM|| 2003-11-23 7:57:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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