Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has arrested scores of militants accused of plotting attacks on oil facilities, in one of the biggest swoops by the kingdom in several years, state media said on Wednesday.
Those arrested included about 50 Saudis and dozens from Yemen, which jumped to the forefront of Western security concerns after a failed December bombing on a U.S.-bound plane claimed by the Yemen-based regional al Qaeda wing, the media said.
The militants were organised in three cells, two of which were planning to attack oil and security facilities in the oil-producing Eastern Province. They included a Yemeni who security officials describe as being a prominent member of al Qaeda.
"We seized belts of explosives which they were planning to use in suicide attacks," one security official said....
via: Matt Drudge
That would be morbidly great for the oil sands. It is not as sinister as Al Gore owning shares in Ethanol and then telling people that all humanity will die unless they switch to Ethanol. I doubt the militants described above owned oil futures, but it is possible.
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