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To: Bilow who wrote (114765)	9/14/2003 8:55:47 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Bilow: The terrorists do not need to nuke a US city or an Israeli one. There are more than ample areas in the Mideast where with conventional weapons they could strike oil export facilities and devastate the world economies. A nuclear threat from terrorists could arise someday with or without our support of Israel. Establishing a progressive representative government in Iraq will do more to help alleviate a future nuclear threat than the other option of leaving Saddam in Iraq. Anyway my point is that you are worrying about terrorists obtaining nukes when they already have the capability of inflicting very serious damage to the world economy. The indirect damages are very high for both a nuclear attack on a city and taking out a large % of oil supply. A couple of links involving export facilities. poten.com Copy from the link below: <<The Saudi system seemed--and still seems--frighteningly vulnerable to attack. Although Saudi Arabia has more than eighty active oil and natural-gas fields, and more than a thousand working wells, half its proven oil reserves are contained in only eight fields--including Ghawar, the world's largest onshore oil field, and Safaniya, the world's largest offshore oil field. Various confidential scenarios have suggested that if terrorists were simultaneously to hit only a few sensitive points "downstream" in the oil system from these eight fields--points that control more than 10,000 miles of pipe, both onshore and offshore, in which oil moves from wells to refineries and from refineries to ports, within the kingdom and without-they could effectively put the Saudis out of the oil business for about two years. And it just would not be that hard to do.>> foi.missouri.edu

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