Jihad Against Oil

Energy Dependence: Al-Qaida and Democrats in Congress have a curious objective in common — sabotaging the supplies of oil available to America.

The Saudi Arabian branch of al-Qaida this week provided religious justification for its attempt last Friday to car-bomb the huge oil-processing complex in the eastern Saudi town of Abqaiq. “Targeting oil interests is legitimate economic jihad,” said a 63-page document posted on a militant Islamic Web site. “Oil is the basis of modern industry and the backbone of industries in infidel countries.”

The missive was apparently written some time ago by Abdul Aziz bin Rasheed al-Anzy, a key al-Qaida propagandist now in Saudi custody. It sheds light on how terrorists plan to target oil interests.

“Pipelines may be the front line in a long-term war of attrition on oil and its interests,” it says. “Pipelines are an easy target militarily. Their protection is virtually impossible because of their length.” The al-Anzy document adds that “God’s wisdom has decreed that the oil wealth be concentrated in the Arabian peninsula and
Iraq.”

Of course, through God’s wisdom there’s also a substantial quantity of oil in North America. But Democrats have decreed that it stay in the ground, and have spent decades making sure it does. Meantime, feasible and competitively priced sources of alternative energy remain many years away.

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