Qaeda Suspects Planned Attacks on Saudi Oil

Four suspected al Qaeda members arrested in Saudi Arabia last year had planned to attack the kingdom’s oil facilities and other Gulf Arab oil producers, they said in confessions shown on Saudi television on Tuesday.

Saudi police arrested the four in April last year in connection with a failed attack two months earlier on Abqaiq, the country’s biggest oil-gathering facility.

Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest oil exporter, supplying about 7 million barrels per day, and holds almost a quarter of the world’s oil reserves.

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