(Sunday Times-UK) Syed Rashid Husain and Peter Conradi - Al-Qaeda has threatened to launch further strikes to force "infidels" out of the Arabian peninsula, after admitting responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Saudi Arabia on Friday at the world's largest crude oil processing plant. A local branch of al-Qaeda said Saturday it had carried out the raid on the complex at Abqaiq, in eastern Saudi Arabia, which processes 5m-7m barrels of oil a day - up to 8% of the world's consumption. Lt.-Gen. Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, said the attack began when two cars tried to drive through the gates of the outermost of three fences. Guards shot at the cars and both vehicles exploded. Unofficial reports suggested the cars, both bearing Saudi Aramco logos, had succeeded in getting through the first gates.
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