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2004-05-08 Arabia

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-08 6:53:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This looks like a poem.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-08 9:30:48 AM|| 2004-05-08 9:30:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 have indicated that militants are in the final stages of planning attacks on Middle Eastern targets.

Son of a B! Call in the Dogs!

People pay real money for this?

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-08 10:00:00 AM|| 2004-05-08 10:00:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It is a miracle that attacks like the one in Yanbu did not happen sooner. I do not know if anybody remembers the following article published in the NY Times two summers ago: Intelligence officials say the discovery of al Qaeda sympathizers inside Saudi Aramco.
February 13, New York Times â Pro-al Qaeda oil workers a sabotage risk for Saudis. The government of Saudi Arabia has increased security around its oil fields and processing centers after the discovery that employees of the state-owned oil company sympathetic to al Qaeda were discussing sabotage plans late last summer, American and Saudi officials say. American intelligence officials discovered the conversations and alerted the Saudi authorities, who quickly arrested and interrogated the suspects, the officials added. The quiet thwarting of the potentially disastrous sabotage, disclosed in October by ABC News, is seen by officials here and in Washington as a model of cooperation for a relationship that has been under strain since the disclosure of the role of Saudis in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Still, the sabotage case and the response to it underscore the deep anxieties about the security of Saudi oil when a war with Iraq could make it more valuable, but also more vulnerable, than ever. Intelligence officials say the discovery of al Qaeda sympathizers inside Saudi Aramco is part of a worrisome trend: al Qaeda's leadership appears to be increasingly focused on economic targets, especially the oil industry.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/13/international/middleeast/1 3SAUD.html

Posted by Anonymous4617 2004-05-08 10:19:16 AM|| 2004-05-08 10:19:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 This looks like a poem.

Ah, yup. tipper, hard carriage returns are not your friend.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-08 1:23:54 PM|| 2004-05-08 1:23:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Select the text, click the SQUISH button, hard returns are goners...

Posted by Fred 2004-05-08 6:57:43 PM|| 2004-05-08 6:57:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 D'oh! thanks Meister Pruitt - how're you feeling?

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-08 7:03:21 PM|| 2004-05-08 7:03:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Better, but tired. I can think of lots of things to do that are more fun than surgery...

Posted by Fred 2004-05-08 9:19:10 PM|| 2004-05-08 9:19:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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