Loading ...“Saudis Have Good Reason To Be Concerned” Warns Ex-CIA Officer, As ISIS Enters World’s Largest Oil Exporter
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/06/2014 11:38 -0500
Iraq Newspaper Saudi Arabia
For the longest time there has been speculation whether Jihadist forces, be they ISIS, Nusra or other regional groups, had managed to spread beyond the Iraq conflict zone and infiltrate the world’s oil mecca: Saudi Arabia. We now know the answer: according to Bloomberg, a Saudi citizen suspected of organizing the attack on Shiite worshipers in the oil-rich Eastern Province returned from fighting in Iraq and Syria, according to Saudi-owned newspapers. In short, ISIS has arrived in the world’s largest oil exporter, which begs the question: was yesterday’s news of an oil pipeline explosion, quickly downplayed by Saudi sources as “maintenance-related”, in fact what most assumed at first, namely an act of sabotage? And how long until the next “planned maintenance” pipeline explosion?