Saudi Qaeda ideologue sets rules for oil war: Web

Al Qaeda has advised followers to attack pipelines in Saudi Arabia and
Iraq but to steer clear of oil wells because they are the lifeline of Muslim states, according to a two-year-old document recently posted on the Web.

The guidelines in al Qaeda’s war against “crusaders” and U.S.-allied governments were laid out in a manifesto written by Abdulaziz al-Enezi, arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and described by the Saudis as a prominent ideologue of al Qaeda.

In the manifesto, which was recently posted on an Islamist Web site, Enezi said disrupting oil supplies was the best way to hurt the U.S. economy and destabilize the Saudi royal family.

The document said Saudi state-owned refineries and oil pipelines and Iraqi facilities were “all in the hands of infidels.”

..Enezi said oil pipelines were the easiest targets because they were hard to protect, less costly to fix and attacks on them did not rob Muslims of their oil wealth.

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