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Saudi oil fields set with 'radioactive bombs'
NEW DELHI, MAY 12: A book being published next week says Saudi Arabia has wired its oil fields with radioactive explosives to discourage invaders from trying to take control of the kingdom's reserves, but Saudi Arabia denied it had any explosives at all attached to its oil facilities. In "Secrets of the Kingdom" Gerald Posner says 'dirty bombs' would not only destroy the oil-rich country's energy infrastructure in the event of an invasion, but would make the oil fields unsafe to work in for decades, according to an advance copy of the book seen by Reuters.
| Not that he would make stuff up to sell a book. |
Saudi Arabia has decided that "leveling the major oil production facilities and blasting away the core of the industry's infrastructure was not enough to deter an enemy from seizing its prized commodity," it says. "We have not seen Mr Posner's latest book. However the allegation that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has explosives or any other type of weapon, much less nuclear weapons, attached to its oil facilities, is false and has no basis in fact whatsoever," Nail Al-Jubeir, director of the Saudi Information office in Washington, told Reuters. Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi security consultant and co-author of reports into Saudi oil field security by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said: "This is complete made-up fantasy." He added: "If (Posner) had studied the Saudi petroleum security infrastructure he would realize it's impossible to do what he claims the Saudis have done. | I'm sure the ex-pats who do all the heavy lifting in the Magic Kingdom's oil industry would have noticed their workplaces being wired. |
Saudi Arabia does not have dirty bombs. It does not have any radioactive substances." | "Plus, as you may have noticed, we have a shortage of people who know the difference between red and blue wires. " |
The book, to be published by Random House on May 17, attributes the claims to electronic intercepts of Saudi communications from the U.S. National Security Agency.
| Which they leave lying around the office for hack reporters to read. You may ask, who is this guy? This is from his website; . |
Best-selling books from the Pulitzer Prize finalist ranging from Nazi war criminals, political assassinations, organized crime, politicians, and now terrorism and 9/11. Investigative articles breaking news from Pete Rose's gambling addiction to questions over the death of Princess Diana. And now a new column, Cultural Chatter, together with his wife, author Trisha Posner, in Ocean Drive magazine.
Posted by: Steve 2005-05-12 |
