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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/02/14/qaeda-canada.html
What I find funny. Oh yes funny. Is the "Saudi Arabian arm of the network" posted the threat. Hey America! Isn't that where most of the 911 fuckheads came from? Where is your military? The whole bloody thing is a joke. Read on.............................
Al-Qaeda calls for attacks on Canadian oil facilities
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | 12:46 PM ET
CBC News
Al-Qaeda has included Canada in a list of countries that it believes should be attacked for providing oil to the United States.
The Saudi Arabian arm of the network posted the threat on Sawt al-Jihad (Voice of Jihad), the group's online magazine, according to the Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE), a U.S. non-profit group that monitors militant websites.
The website is known to be used by Islamist militants.
The threat, written as an article, encourages the mujahedeen to continue to follow Osama bin Laden’s directives and strike oil targets not only in Saudi Arabia, but elsewhere, including Mexico and Venezuela, SITE said. Those targets include oilfields, pipelines, loading platforms and carriers.
"We should strike petroleum interests in all areas which supply the United States, and not only in the Middle East, because the target is to stop its imports or decrease it by all means," it states.
The militant group launched an unsuccessful suicide bomb attack at the world's largest oil-processing facility, the Abqaiq oil facility in Saudi Arabia, last February.
Attackers had two cars packed with explosives and were trying to ram the gates when guards opened fire. The cars exploded, killing the attackers.
According to the latest figures, Canada remains the top supplier of oil to the U.S., followed by Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Despite the tense relations between Washington and Caracas, Venezuela is listed as fourth on the top suppliers list.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told CanWest News that it was aware of the posting, as is Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
"Do we think it's a serious threat? I can't get into that," CSIS spokesperson Barbara Campion said.
Greg Stringham, vice-president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, told CanWest News that they are taking the threat seriously.
"It's not the first time that it's happened and we have no credible threat to substantiate it, but still, we are taking it seriously and we've informed all of our members and contacts about that — especially those with critical infrastructure — to pay extra attention and be vigilant."
What I find funny. Oh yes funny. Is the "Saudi Arabian arm of the network" posted the threat. Hey America! Isn't that where most of the 911 fuckheads came from? Where is your military? The whole bloody thing is a joke. Read on.............................
Al-Qaeda calls for attacks on Canadian oil facilities
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | 12:46 PM ET
CBC News
Al-Qaeda has included Canada in a list of countries that it believes should be attacked for providing oil to the United States.
The Saudi Arabian arm of the network posted the threat on Sawt al-Jihad (Voice of Jihad), the group's online magazine, according to the Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE), a U.S. non-profit group that monitors militant websites.
The website is known to be used by Islamist militants.
The threat, written as an article, encourages the mujahedeen to continue to follow Osama bin Laden’s directives and strike oil targets not only in Saudi Arabia, but elsewhere, including Mexico and Venezuela, SITE said. Those targets include oilfields, pipelines, loading platforms and carriers.
"We should strike petroleum interests in all areas which supply the United States, and not only in the Middle East, because the target is to stop its imports or decrease it by all means," it states.
The militant group launched an unsuccessful suicide bomb attack at the world's largest oil-processing facility, the Abqaiq oil facility in Saudi Arabia, last February.
Attackers had two cars packed with explosives and were trying to ram the gates when guards opened fire. The cars exploded, killing the attackers.
According to the latest figures, Canada remains the top supplier of oil to the U.S., followed by Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Despite the tense relations between Washington and Caracas, Venezuela is listed as fourth on the top suppliers list.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told CanWest News that it was aware of the posting, as is Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
"Do we think it's a serious threat? I can't get into that," CSIS spokesperson Barbara Campion said.
Greg Stringham, vice-president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, told CanWest News that they are taking the threat seriously.
"It's not the first time that it's happened and we have no credible threat to substantiate it, but still, we are taking it seriously and we've informed all of our members and contacts about that — especially those with critical infrastructure — to pay extra attention and be vigilant."
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The reasons for invading Afghanistan and Iraq were for Oil and Arms profits.
Sadly, many feel that is a legitimate reason.
I mean, I know they are out there, but it's rare to witness stupidity at such a low depth. It's like watching a trainwreck. You know it's going to be gory, but you can't help but watch.
You know it pure stupidity, but I can't help but watch and see what the twit will say next.
Bush may have as well went after Staten Island and Rhode Island, for the 9/11 attacks. Same difference.
really? afgahistan was the home base of el queda. always was. also home of osama bin laden and all its top leaders. I thought you knew that
So there is no more Al-Queda then?
Cool, so the War on Terror is over?
I think they do still have them, but they are in Pakistan now.
Well, should have, probably, instead of Iraq.
But, no I don't agree with invasions.
well Iraq, yes bad idea.
but invade Pakistan whos leader has made attempts (albeit not nearly enough) to curb terrorists vs invading Afghanistan? no way.
Ever wonder why Opiates are so readily available after the Afghanistan invasion?
Hail, Hail!!!
I'm personally not going to do anything about it. I hope our government doesn't over-react either. I think it's kind of a hollow threat, I mean how are they going to get into the U.S. if they can't come to Canada first.
I think we may send some troops to Afghanistan. But the government is still weighing the options out.
what is a cobra ripoff?
who is destro?
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2007/02/18/3642501-sun.html
Eric MargolisSun, February 18, 2007
Is Alberta oil, gas at risk?
Al-Qaida in Arabia has warned it will target energy producers who supply the U.S.
By ERIC MARGOLIS
CALGARY -- Could Alberta's sprawling oil and gas industry become a target of foreign extremists?
This week, a Washington outfit linked to Israel that provides the U.S. media with edited translations of material from Mideast sources reported that a Saudi extremist group had posted an e-mail threatening Canada, Venezuela and Mexico.
A group styling itself "al-Qaida in Arabia" warned that it planned to attack these energy-producing nations because they supplied the United States.
Canada is America's leading source of oil, followed by Venezuela. The bulk of Mideast oil goes to Europe and Asia.
Should Canadians be worried? The answer is: Not worried, but vigilant.
Al-Qaida in Arabia is a group of militants fighting to overthrow Saudi Arabia's royalist regime. Contrary to mistaken Canadian media reports, it has no organizational or operational links to Osama bin Laden's original al-Qaida, which never numbered more than some 300 members.
The Saudi group, which embraces bin Laden's vision of driving U.S. influence from the Muslim world, simply adopted the al-Qaida name, as have like-minded antiwestern jihadist groups in Iraq, North Africa and Somalia.
Saudi security forces have by now almost destroyed al-Qaidain Arabia and other anti-Saudi groups. An attempt last year by al-Qaida in Arabia to attack one of the kingdom's largest oil facilities fizzled due to poor execution and amateurishness. So al-Qaida in Arabia is unlikely to be a major threat right now to Canada; however, Saudi Arabia remains a hotbed of anti-Western militancy and has many wealthy supporters of Islamic jihadist groups.
Any threat to Canada's oil and gas industry is limited by the dificulty a small group would have in seriously interrupting pumping or distribution in Edmonton or Montreal. During the eight year Iran-Iraq War, Iraq's warplanes bombed Iran's oil export terminals for years, but managed to only briefly interrupt oil exports.
Interestingly, in the 1980s, a Ukrainian immigrant who had lived north of Edmonton for two decades turned himself in to police. He claimed to have been sent to Canada in the 1950s as a deep sleeper agent by the Soviet KGB.
His mission was straight out of a Cold War novel. In the event of war between the U.S.S.R. and the West, he would receive a call from his KGB controller, then take a trunk containing explosives he had hidden in his cellar, and blow up a major oil pumping station near Edmonton.
WAITING FOR A CALL?
One wonders how many other elderly Soviet would-be saboteurs are still waiting out there for their phones to ring.
Osama bin Laden's strategy is to attack America's economy, which he calls its "Achilles heel." Anti-American groups in the Mideast have periodically attacked oil facilities and tankers. So attacks against Canada's poorly protected oil industry must be seen as a moderate possibility.
Particularly so now that Ottawa has made itself a prime target by recklessly charging into Afghanistan, taking sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and joining what most of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims wrongly or rightly consider U.S. President George W. Bush's crusade against the Islamic world.
It seems foolish to make air travellers remove their shoes when the nation's vital energy industry is so plainly vulnerable. Even the dimmest extremists must realize they can kill two birds at once by attacking Canada's energy exports to the U.S.
Anti-Western groups could easily recruit a few technicians from Mideast oil fields who are skilled in the use of explosives and know how to disable large petroleum facilities. But assembling enough explosives to do major, long-lasting damage would be very difficult -- but not impossible.
A few powerful explosions would not cripple Canada's energy industry, but they would send oil and financial markets into a panic and the U.S. government into a rage.
Washington's furious reaction to such an event would likely be far worse than the attack, with the U.S. demanding a security clampdown in Canada and perhaps a greater role in its domestic and border security.
So it behooves Canada to get serious quickly about energy security.