News Saudi Oil Infrastructure Rigged For Catastrophic Self Destruction

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A new book by Gerald Posner, titled "Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-US Connection," reveals alarming claims about Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. The book, set to be released on May 17, discusses a plan by the Saudi government to protect its oil assets from potential invasions or internal threats. This plan allegedly includes a network of explosives, including radioactive "dirty bombs," strategically placed across key oil facilities. If activated, these explosives could devastate the country's oil production and distribution, rendering it unusable for decades and creating a contaminated environment. The information is reportedly based on NSA electronic intercepts and is referred to internally as Petro SE. The discussion reflects skepticism about the credibility of these claims, with some suggesting it sounds more like fiction than fact.
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Embargoed Book Claims Saudi Oil Infrastructure Rigged For Catastrophic Self Destruction

By Huffington Post

05/10/05 "HP" - - According to a new book exclusively obtained by the Huffington Post, Saudi Arabia has crafted a plan to protect itself from a possible invasion or internal attack. It includes the use of a series of explosives, including radioactive “dirty bombs,” that would cripple Saudi Arabian oil production and distribution systems for decades.

Bestselling author Gerald Posner lays out this “doomsday scenario” in his forthcoming Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-US Connection (Random House).

According to the book, which will be released to the public on May 17, based on National Security Agency electronic intercepts, the Saudi Arabian government has in place a nationwide, self-destruction explosive system composed of conventional explosives and dirty bombs strategically placed at the Kingdom’s key oil ports, pipelines, pumping stations, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and backup facilities. If activated, the bombs would destroy the infrastructure of the world’s largest oil supplier, and leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdom’s oil would be unusable to anyone. The NSA file is dubbed internally Petro SE, for petroleum scorched earth.

To make certain that the damaged facilities cannot be rebuilt, the Saudis have deployed crude Radioactive Dispersal Devices (RDDs) throughout the Kingdom. Built covertly over several years, these dirty bombs are in place at -- among other locations -- all eight of the Kingdom’s refineries, sections of the world’s largest oil field at Ghawar, and at three of the ten indispensable processing towers at the largest-ever processing complex at Abqaiq.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8802.htm

WOW that's straight out of sci-fi or something! No wonder the Saudi royal family says "who's your daddy" to US presidents!
 
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Worked in Saudi Arabia ten years or so, part of the time on ARAMCO projects, and I believe the tale is a load of pfft! It makes a good story, but I will not bother to read it.

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