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 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.
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 Kingdoms refineries, sections of the worlds largest oil field at Ghawar, and at three of the ten indispensable processing towers at the largest-ever processing complex at Abqaiq. <SNIP>
Funny takedown of Arianna Huffington and L.A.'s, 'er, "Hollywood liberal elite, " http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/25/web-finke.php
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