Book on US "holding hands" with Saudis, SA "doomsday" plans

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Thought this review had an interesting new, althought not surprising, item on Saudi's doomsday plan:::::

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/21/books/review/21grim.html?oref=login

Just whom the United States is holding hands with, and why, is the subject of "Secrets of the Kingdom," Gerald Posner's angry follow-up to "Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11."
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Mr. Posner, through an Israeli intelligence officer, got the details of a Saudi plan that the United States National Security Agency has called Petroleum Scorched Earth. Petro SE, for short, is a system of explosives that would destroy Saudi Arabia's main wells, refineries, pipelines and storage depots in case of enemy attack. At the touch of a button, the entire system for extracting, transporting and refining oil would go up in smoke.
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Without Saudi oil, the United States would probably run through its strategic reserves in about six months. "Once the strategic stocks proved inadequate, a nuclear environment in Saudi Arabia would create crippling oil price increases, political instability and economic recessions unrivaled since the 1930's and the Great Depression," Mr. Posner writes. No wonder Mr. Bush is holding on tight to the crown prince.

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1. So, who do the Saudis think might invade to grab the oil fields?

Saddam in his Fruit of the Looms?

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2. Or maybe an internal revolt?

Could be anybody, considering how precarious the House of Saud and sparsely populated SA is.

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3. You mean bin Laden, or the other disloyal in-laws, the Bandar Bushes?

Not sure that it was such a great idea to wire up the the country's whole oil infrastructure with dynamite. Might make it awfully easy for others unknown to hack the control system and hit the switch.

Think of what that would do for the price of world oil!

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4. Assumnig they actually did it.

Even the rumor is a deterrent.