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| Saudi Official Pins Yanbu Attack on Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights |
| 2004-05-04 |
| Saudi Arabia says four men who killed five Westerners in a suspected al Qaeda attack on a Saudi energy site were two brothers and their uncles, and one had links to a Saudi dissident group in London. Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz has said he believes Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda was behind Saturday’s attack in the oil and petrochemical hub of Yanbu. ..... The Interior Ministry named the attackers as brothers Sami and Samir al-Ansari and their uncles Ayman and Mustafa, all Saudis. It identified Mustafa as a suspected militant wanted by Saudi authorities who had entered the country illegally after working with well-known Saudi dissident figures abroad. "He last left the country in 1994 to join Saad al-Fagih and Mohamed al-Mas’ari to work with them in their suspicious committee," it said. "He recently entered the country illegally, crossing the borders in order to carry out vile plans." .... Fagih and Mas’ari, two British-based Saudi opposition figures promoting democratic reform in the conservative kingdom, set up the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights (CDLR) in 1993. "This is a desperate and hopeless attempt by the Saudi government to find some link (between us and terrorists), after trying many times and failing," Fagih told Reuters by telephone. "The Saudi government has to decide if it is accusing us, Israel or al Qaeda, and then those accusations can be taken seriously," he said in reference to initial comments by Crown Prince Abdullah blaming "Zionist hands" for the attack. He said someone called Mustafa al-Ansari had frequented the CDLR in 1996, but he did not know if it was the attacker. ... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #8 Boys, why worry about who gets the oil? After this attack, a good number of Western oil workers left SA already..and if the situation doesn't get better (which it won't), the rest will leave, too. SA can't pump any oil without expat oil people to help them get it out of the ground and refine it. They don't know how and such work is "beneath them," doncha know? As my friend dotcom said, the Sauds are doomed because even the home-grown Waahab terrorists like OBL and AQ that they spawned, funded and supported think they're corrupt and debauched (which they are) and must be deposed. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-05-04 6:06:50 PM |
| #7 Gee, AP, there's this 40 km strip of land on the Persian Gulf that could form the basis for the Republic of Eastern Arabia ... ... just pre-empting .com :-) |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-05-04 6:01:28 PM |
| #6 I do not think that they will cut off production but China and Eurabia will be getting most of its export. With a truly poED US the SA has control over pumping but zero control over who gets the oil. In a serious situation the US Navy will broker how the oil is distributed. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-04 5:44:53 PM |
| #5 I believe that Saudi Arabia will become more like Iran. I do not think that they will cut off production but China and Eurabia will be getting most of its export. |
| Posted by: Anonymous3964 2004-05-04 2:44:47 PM |
| #4 So, .com, let's play this out. The Saudi royal family, such as it is, goes down. The lucky ones pack off to Switzerland. The unlucky ones go down in a hail of lead. What happens to the oil fields and production? Who is going to deal with Jihadis? Will the Saudi share of world production get cut off for a long time? It seems that once Al and the Q's take over, they have killed off the host, and thus themselves. Game this for me, if you would. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-05-04 2:25:43 PM |
| #3 Just having fun, Steve! And, BTW, this further supports my conclusion: the Magic Kingdom's Royals are doomed! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-04 1:16:24 PM |
| #2 A Freedom-loving AlQ Caliphatist Neo-Zionist plot! Freedom-loving and CDLR should not be used in the same sentence. I just Googled them and was browsing their message board. Reads like any other jihadi site, I think the legitimate rights they want to defend are the rights to kill any infidel they want. I believe they oppose the Saudi Royals because they are not holy enough. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-05-04 1:13:08 PM |
| #1 Wheels within squares within triangles... A Freedom-loving AlQ Caliphatist Neo-Zionist plot! Whew! How the hell do you fight that? The Saudis are doomed! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-04 12:47:51 PM |