In the West we are now totally dependent on oil and natural gas for the production and distribution of food. As our own supplies of oil and gas are now declining, we are becoming more dependent on imports for our oil and gas and therefore for our food.
Islamic militants, waging war on the West, will want to disrupt these supplies while at the same time undermining certain oil rich regimes.
The Yorkshire Post on April 28th 2007 reported, “Saudi police have arrested 172 Islamic militants, some of whom trained abroad as pilots so they could use aircraft to attack the country’s oilfields. The ministry issued a statememt saying the detainees were planning to carry out suicide attacks against ‘public figures, oil facilities, refineries….and military zones’ -some of which were outside the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Mansour al-Turki said, ‘They had reached an advanced stage of readiness and what remained was only to set the zero hour for their attacks. They had the personnel, the money, the arms.”
In my opinion it is only a matter of time before some of these attacks are successful. Should anything be done?