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Saudi builds security force of 35,000 to guard oil

RIYADH-Saudi Arabia is building up a special 35,000-strong rapid reaction force to protect its energy installations from attacks by militants targeting the world's largest oil exporter.The kingdom started recruiting and training the industrial security force a year ago,after a failed al Qaeda attack on the world's largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in February 2006.The network's Saudi branch vowed more strikes on oil facilities after the attack, the first to directly target the kingdom's oil sector since militants began a campaign against the U.S.-allied Saudi royals in May 2003.Al Qaeda's Saudi-born leader, Osama bin Laden, has called for it to take aim specifically at oil."There is a new threat to oil installations from terrorists that has to be confronted," Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki told Reuters."We can't just rely on a security system that was built some time ago for a different kind of risk."Saudi Arabia pumps around 9 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil, over a tenth of global supplies, and severe damage to its infrastructure could have far-reaching effects.The kingdom is keeper of most of the world's three million barrels per day (bpd) of spare oil capacity, a reserve crucial to the global energy system to deal with any surprise supply disruption.
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