Al-Qaeda pledges war on Saudi oil plants

timesonline: Al-Qaeda has threatened to launch further strikes to force "infidels" out of the Arabian peninsula after admitting responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the world's largest crude oil processing plant.

A local branch of Al-Qaeda said yesterday it had carried out the raid on the complex at Abqaiq, in the east of Saudi Arabia, which processes 5m-7m barrels of oil a day - up to 8% of the world's consumption.

The bombing, named Operation Bin Laden Conquest, was part of efforts to prevent the "theft" of Muslims" wealth by "crusaders and Jews", according to a statement signed "Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula" - the name of the terrorist network's Saudi affiliate.

"There are more like them who are racing toward martyrdom and eager to fight the enemies of God, the Jews, the crusaders and their stooges, the renegade rulers" of Arab countries, the statement said. "You will see things that will make you happy, God willing." Read more

db: "A local branch of Al-Qaeda said yesterday...." - that would be the one between KFC and Spud-U-Like. The Times doesn't bother with qualifying this statement - was it from a website 'normally used by terrorists' or an ad' in the local paper? In reality nobody really knows for sure who authored it or what it's worth if anything. Let's suck it up anyway.