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Submitted by michael c (United Kingdom), May 18, 2005 at 20:31

The Saudis could probably inflict more damage by selling their vast holdings of US gov't bonds, which is where their oil profits end up.The financial chain reaction would be global.

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
1	Dual Purpose of Explosives [42 words]	Dr. Slee	Oct 22, 2005 12:49	27207
	US Treasury market [30 words]	michael c	May 18, 2005 20:31	22163
	House of Saud [95 words]	Joe	May 18, 2005 13:17	22145
1	Haven't they learned anything? [195 words]	Pat	May 17, 2005 19:09	22129
1	Saudi empty threat [169 words]	Marcos Berenstein	May 16, 2005 19:56	22119
	Blow up Oil infrastructure? [98 words]	Jacques Bakke	May 16, 2005 02:46	22116
	Worth considering... [17 words]	Cutler	May 15, 2005 23:07	22113
	I Always Assumed They Had A Self-Destruct [30 words]	Constance	May 15, 2005 16:19	22111
	Past due [224 words]	philiplisagor	May 13, 2005 18:12	22103
	Usually a Big Fan - Disappointed this Time [291 words]	Adam	May 13, 2005 16:49	22102
	Small quantities protocol [88 words]	Marc Joris	May 13, 2005 16:34	22100
	Too much of Oil can be a bad thing [132 words]	Yldaed Suriv	May 13, 2005 12:49	22098
	Irrelevant [106 words]	Paul Z	May 13, 2005 10:58	22097
	Poor Mr. Ahmed [96 words]	Octavio Johanson	May 13, 2005 09:53	22096
	Completely Preposterous [114 words]	Ronald Monsen	May 13, 2005 09:19	22095
	If they did do it, they must have thought about it hard [73 words]	Alain Jean-Mairet	May 13, 2005 00:53	22093
	Absurdity [63 words]	Stan Suchocki	May 13, 2005 00:12	22092
	New energy project [175 words]	Fodor, G.E.	May 12, 2005 22:25	22091
	A doomsday switch is a stupid idea [88 words]	LTEC	May 12, 2005 21:58	22090
	Not an Effective Deterent? [19 words]	Elliot	May 12, 2005 16:39	22089
	I doubt it would work. [403 words]	bernardz	May 12, 2005 15:44	22087
2	The Desert Fantasy [596 words]	Alo Kievalar	May 12, 2005 15:33	22086
	Chilling thought. Now, what's the bottom line? [103 words]	J. Goldberg	May 12, 2005 11:01	22084
	SAUDI OIL [82 words]	Asim Ahmed	May 12, 2005 08:59	22083
	The evil that you know [87 words]	Octavio Johanson	May 12, 2005 08:28	22082
	Button, Button, Who's Got The Big Red Button? [400 words]	Yonason	May 12, 2005 03:19	22080
	Dr. Strangelove in a kaffiyeh [365 words]	Kenneth S. Besig	May 12, 2005 02:11	22078
	Saudi self-destruct: silver lining [98 words]	Gary Goldman	May 11, 2005 20:42	22073
	re: Might the Saudis Blow Up Their Oil Infrastructure? [99 words]	Garrett Hildebrand	May 11, 2005 20:04	22072
	An aside... [55 words]	Mark Faby	May 11, 2005 19:41	22071
	A secret deterrence system would be useless [76 words]	Alfred Kohler	May 11, 2005 18:14	22070