new boook;"Secrets of the Kingdom"
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1102By Gerald Posner
Random House, Incorporated, 272 pp., May 2005
Reviewed by Mark Biskeborn
“The 9/11 Commission gave the Saudis a free pass." Gerald Posner writes in Secrets of the Kingdom, "This book shows why.”
If you’re looking for a short history that covers the last few decades of U.S. relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, you’ve come to one of the best sources. Posner weaves together rich, fascinating threads of details, anecdotes, and newly disclosed secrets that reveal how Saudi Arabia keeps the U.S. bent over an oil barrel
In Chapter 10, Posner drops a highly explosive story on the reader. Drawing sources from Israeli intelligence as well as from a file that the National Security Agency (NSA) called the “Petroleum Scorched Earth,” Posner reports that Saudi officials have wired all their major oil facilities with a network of Semtex explosives that some Saudi king or designated prince can detonate from a single control point. As if this news does not shock us, Posner adds that this network of explosive charges includes several extremely toxic, radioactive materials. It’s a huge dirty bomb that would contaminate the world’s richest oil fields and thus prohibit oil extraction.
Posner explains that the Saudi Royalty installed these explosives in order to make certain that nobody could benefit from taking down the Saud regime. If internal or external forces bring down the House of Saud, Posner writes, the new world order, as we know it, goes with it because all the oil on which the Western military industrial complex depends disappears forever. "
I wonder what similar dirty tricks the bush royalty has installed in the US kingdom ??