Tyranny, terrorism and oil in Saudi Arabia

With their partial elections for municipality councils the al-Saud regime has convinced the west that they are liberalizing but John R Bradley tells us the Saudi people are not fooled and that the country is a powder keg with a short fuse. What this means to the world is 40% of the worlds oil is threatened. The al-Saud regime has been forced to clamp down on internal unrest, at least 40 people have been publicly beheaded this year alone, more than during the whole of last year. This unrest will only increase as thousands of Saudi jihadis return from Iraq. And their target?

Indeed, unconfirmed reports on Islamist websites say dozens of Saudi jihadis have returned to the kingdom from Iraq in recent months specifically to plan a fresh wave of attacks against the oil industry, following an unprecedented call by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden last December for just such attacks.

All the talk now on Islamist websites is about the remarkably vulnerable Saudi oil pipeline network. It is not a matter of if, but when, those attacks start to take place, in a second wave of violence that will once again punish the al-Saud regime for burying its head in the oil-rich sand.

Can you imagine what will happen to the price of oil when the Saudi oil industry comes under attack?