No action needed on Qaeda oil threat: Chertoff (Reuters)

[Eugene]

No action needed on Qaeda oil threat: Chertoff

1 hour, 35 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said
on Friday no special measures were needed against a threat by al Qaeda to attack
U.S. oil suppliers in Mexico, Canada and Venezuela.

"I don't think there's any sense that there's some specific measure that needs
to be taken," Chertoff said in the Mexican capital.

A Saudi wing of al Qaeda called this week for attacks on suppliers of oil to the
United States to cut off crude supplies vital to the world's largest economy.

Chertoff, in Mexico for talks with government officials, played down the threat,
made on a Web site used by Islamic militants.

"I don't think I would characterize it as a specific threat," he said.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070216/pl_nm/qaeda_usa_mexico_dc

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[ceile]

1. What happened to terra, terra, terra?

It only flies here in the States.....?

[villager]

2. No -- a real/fake terror attack on oil supplies will allow multinationals

to charge us $7 - $8 a gallon, right away. So why would they want to stop that?