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| Worse Saudi attack to come: report |
| 2004-05-30 |
| The Khobar attack didn’t have the usual suicide MO, which indicates to me that it could well have been a trial run for something else - presumably bigger. One odd thing which got almost no coverage was the terrorist who was killed was trying to get into the building where the hostages were. He drove a car up to the building. At the time I thought just another Islamo-nutball trying to get himself killed in the dumbest way possible. Now with 3 terrorists escaping I think he was part of a getaway plot that went wrong. Anyway to my point - the problem with the suicide MO is there is no learning curve and no Darwinian selection at work. The next bunch of terrorists is as dumb as the last. Drop the suicide MO and they start to get better at it. An alarming development. INTELLIGENCE agencies fear that the Islamic terrorists behind the deadly kidnappings in Saudi Arabia over the weekend are planning a "spectacular attack" in the country, The Times reported today. Twenty-two people were killed in the Saudi terrorist operation, including hostages whose throats were slit before commandos moved in. Key oil installations or the causeway linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain were among the possible targets of a future attack, according to the British newspaper’s intelligence sources. Final preparations for such an attack were being made by al-Qaeda sympathisers, The Times said. The Times article is behind paid subscription. |
| Posted by:Phil B |
| #3 I'm not so sure that this means they are about to get "better" at attacks. It seems like they are just more sensitive to losses. I'm not sure about that. It has the marks of a more guerrilla attack that went wrong. The objective was not necessarily to "die for Allan" but to trigger an expatriate exodus. That's more in line with 'revolutionary' thought. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-05-30 10:17:05 PM |
| #2 I fully agree the fanatical jihadees are hell bent on not only disrupting the flow of oil from Saudi Arabia but want to control all Persian Gulf based crude oil exports as economic hostage, in the hope they can ruin the entire western economic system through market fear, triggering a sell off of stocks, and jacking up energy prices through the roof. Since jihadees are sick of mind, in their view they will live very happily in a giant Lebanon style debacle, butchering each other for absolute control of Islam....pure madness!! To think a few demented Mohammedans have the capabilities to alter international financial trends is hard to believe, but we have the power to strike at some of the main sources of this Islamic terrorist rampaging....Iran & Syria-Lebanon! |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-30 8:57:23 PM |
| #1 I'm not so sure that this means they are about to get "better" at attacks. It seems like they are just more sensitive to losses. Back in the 70s and 80s, the terrorists weren't so much the suicidal type, they had (stupid) plans to escape with hostages and the like, but they weren't all that spectacular in their abilities then. On another note, every western country aught to pull their people out of Saudia Arabia and let the price of oil be damned. When the place goes up in an inferno much of the terrorists efforts will go toward trying to take over there. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-05-30 8:42:10 PM |