Monday, May 09, 2005
Saudi doomsday deviceAs noted earlier, it's day one of the Huffington Post and they're already claiming scoops, namely that the Saudis have their entire oil infrastructure rigged with dirty bombs:
...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 Kingdoms key oil ports, pipelines, pumping stations, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and backup facilities. If activated, the bombs would destroy the infrastructure of the worlds largest oil supplier, and leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdoms oil would be unusable to anyone. The NSA file is dubbed internally Petro SE, for petroleum scorched earth.It's allegedly meant to protect it from invasion or rebellion. The first thing that springs to mind is that line from Dr Stangeglove. "The whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret". However, according to the report, the Saudis are relying on NSA intercepts to let the word leak out. If the story's true it sounds like the Saudis are using bombs less as a deterrence and more as a "keeping our asses covered by the States" kind of guarantee.
posted by Dick O'Brien at 1:52 PM | link |
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