Secrets of the Kingdom

Posted on May 9, 2005

The new Huffinton Post reports on the eye-opening claims of Gerald Posner's upcoming book, Secrets of the Kingdom (Random House). Posner asserts that the entire Saudi Arabian oil empire is rigged for self-destruction; if activated, the entire infrastructure will be destroyed, leaving a radioactive mess where the world's largest oil reserves used to be.

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 Kingdom's key oil ports, pipelines, pumping stations, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and backup facilities. If activated, the bombs would destroy the infrastructure of the world's largest oil supplier, and leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdom's 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 Kingdom's refineries, sections of the world's largest oil field at Ghawar, and at three of the ten indispensable processing towers at the largest-ever processing complex at Abqaiq.

Why would the Saudis do such a thing? Well, supposedly they want to make sure the U.S. will support them in the event of a revolution. And we certainly do support them.

Meanwhile, President Bush is irritating President Putin by talking about how great Georgian democracy is and how we can't abide dictators of any kind. Unless, of course, they have our oil supply rigged for self-destruct.