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Yahoo! News - al-Qaida Rallies to Strike Oil Resources
Sun Dec 19,11:49 AM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - The Saudi branch of al-Qaida called for attacks against oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf in a Web statement posted Sunday.
The statement came four days after al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) urged Islamic militants to stop Westerners from obtaining Middle Eastern oil, saying such a blow would be fatal to the West.
"Try your best to stop the biggest theft in history," bin Laden said in the Thursday tape, referring to the West's purchase of Arab oil.
Sunday's statement called on "all mujahedeen ... in the Arabian Peninsula" to target "the oil resources that do not serve the nation of Islam."
It was not possible to authenticate the statement, which was signed by the group Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. It was posted on an Islamic Web site known as a clearinghouse for al-Qaida statements.
The statement said the call came after "the infidels insisted on turning the land of Islam into a place where infidels and polytheists are free to roam everywhere."
It urged al-Qaida members and sympathizers around the Arab world to unite "to strike all the foreign targets in the Arabian peninsula and attack all the infidels' havens everywhere."
The Arabian Peninsula includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen
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