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Al-Qaeda vows more oil infrastructure attacks |
2006-02-26 |
![]() A successful strike on the Abqaiq complex, near Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coast, would be devastating. Nearly two-thirds of the country's oil flows through the facility for processing before export. Friday's attack, which was repelled by Saudi security services, demonstrated the country's success in putting tough security around the oil industry, the source of the royal family's wealth, analysts said. Two suicide bombers in explosives-packed cars exchanged gunfire with police at a checkpoint before a gate in the first of three fences around the sprawling, heavily guarded complex. One assailant's car crashed into the closed gate, exploding and blowing a hole in the fence, a senior Saudi security official said on condition of anonymity. The second bomber drove through the hole before police opened fire, detonating his car, the official said. |
Posted by:Dan Darling |