Saudi Oil infrastructure "rigged for self-destruction"

[Taxloss]

claims new book.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/05/embargoed-book-claims-sau_1.html

Snip:

According to a new book exclusively obtained by the Huffington Post, Saudi Arabia has crafted a plan to protect itself from a possible invasion or internal attack. It includes the use of a series of explosives, including radioactive “dirty bombs,” that would cripple Saudi Arabian oil production and distribution systems for decades.

Bestselling author Gerald Posner lays out this “doomsday scenario” in his forthcoming “Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-US Connection” (Random House).

According to the book, which will be released to the public on May 17, 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 Kingdom’s key oil ports, pipelines, pumping stations, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and backup facilities. If activated, the bombs would destroy the infrastructure of the world’s largest oil supplier, and leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdom’s oil would be unusable to anyone. The NSA file is dubbed internally Petro SE, for petroleum scorched earth.

To make certain that the damaged facilities cannot be rebuilt, the Saudis have deployed crude Radioactive Dispersal Devices (RDDs) throughout the Kingdom. Built covertly over several years, these dirty bombs are in place at -- among other locations -- all eight of the Kingdom’s refineries, sections of the world’s largest oil field at Ghawar, and at three of the ten indispensable processing towers at the largest-ever processing complex at Abqaiq.

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Yipes!

[Mr.Green93]

1. Force them to do it

Long term it would be a plus for the world.

[On the Road]

2. Most Efforts Like This Anticipate a Specific Enemy

are they guarding against an attack from the US, from Iraq, or from Israel? Or possibly from someone else?

[Taxloss]

3. External assault or internal revolution, the article says.

This "scorched earth" strategy is an established route known as "total defense" - it's most used by small countries surrounded by powerful neighbours, like Switzerland or the Baltics. "Sure, invade if you want, but we'll make sure that the cost to you is so great, and the benefit so small, that it's not worth it."

[bullimiami]

4. if true.

truly these are those types of monsters that bush is one with.
they would destroy the earth to keep others from having it.

[lectrobyte]

5. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. After all, they have the oil, and

and we and others want it, and would probably not hesitate to take it if we really had to. After all, look at what we did to Iraq.

On edit: not saying that I agree with dirty bombs, just that I could see where there thinking is coming from.