Al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia Issues Rules on Attacking Oil Facilities
By Evan Kohlmann
In response to their failed suicide bombing attack last week on a Saudi oil refinery in Buqayq, Al-Qaida's Committee in the Arabian Peninsula has issued a 63-page booklet, titled "The Laws of Targeting Petroleum-Related Interests and a Review of the Laws Pertaining to the Economic Jihad", by Shaykh Abdullah bin Nasser al-Rashid (a.k.a. Abdelaziz bin Rashid al-Anzi). The document explains that despite Usama Bin Laden's past stated reservations against targeting oil, "we must take into account the date in which [these] statements were made... before the fiery eruption of the jihad and before many developments pertaining to the conflict took place. Since [then], attacks against oil-related interests, such as the attack on the French oil tanker, have been claimed by Al-Qaida.”