Saudi al Qaeda calls for terror strikes on oil facilities in Canada, Venzuela and Mexico

NBC News:

A Saudi Arabian terrorist faction affiliated with al-Qaida has urged Muslim militants to attack oil facilities all over the world, including Canada, Mexico and Venezuela, to stop the flow of oil to the United States, according to an article by the group posted on the Internet.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said in its monthly magazine posted on an Islamic Web site that “cutting oil supplies to the United States, or at least curtailing it, would contribute to the ending of the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.” The group said it was making the statements as part of Osama bin Laden’s declared policy. It was not possible to verify independently that the posting was from the terror faction.

Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for last year’s attacks on oil installations in Saudi Arabia and Yemen after bin Laden called on militants to stop the flow of oil to the West. The group also was behind the 2002 attack on a French oil tanker that killed one person in the Gulf of Aden.

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Al Qaeda has wanted to strangle the US economy since they started this war. That is what the attack on the World Trade Center was about. That the US economy not only recovered but has shown tremendous growth is a strategic defeat for al Qaeda. It is doubtful al Qaeda has the capacity to significantly cut US oil supplies. Their state intentions make even less sense since the oil supplies for the efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan come from that region.