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global1

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Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:09 PM Sep 2019

I've Been Traveling & Missed The Details About The SA Oil Field Attack & Need Someone To Fill Me In.

I hear it was drones that attacked the oil field & Yemeni's claimed the attack.

Aren't those oil fields protected and why weren't these drones detected and intercepted before the attack?

I can't believe that these oil fields are that vulnerable to such attacks and that the Saudi's don't have radar ability to detect a potential attack and protect their oil fields. What am I missing here? What was said about this attack and why was it so much of a surprise to the Saudi's?

So much of the Saudi riches depend on oil - it seems suspect to me that these fields were unprotected. What gives?

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I've Been Traveling & Missed The Details About The SA Oil Field Attack & Need Someone To Fill Me In. (Original Post) global1 Sep 2019 OP
Not everyone is telling the truth..goes without saying....here is a good report-opinion asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #1
SHITLER & Bibi have bad poll #s for coming elections & need a war to pump them up!1 UTUSN Sep 2019 #2
Depending on its size, a drone would have the radar footprint ranging from a bird... A HERETIC I AM Sep 2019 #3
Surely they knew ... GeorgeGist Sep 2019 #4

A HERETIC I AM

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3. Depending on its size, a drone would have the radar footprint ranging from a bird...
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 01:47 PM
Sep 2019

to a light plane.

Hell, the tiny ones you can buy would be virtually undetectable by radar.

But why would you assume their oil production facilities are protected from such things?


"So much of the Saudi riches depend on oil - it seems suspect to me that these fields were unprotected. What gives?"

Well, I'm betting a contract or two is being signed right now.

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