In February 2006, Al-Qaeda launched an attack on the world’s largest oil refinery, the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia. As part of the attack, three vehicles were loaded with explosives and attempted to breach the fenced perimeter of the refinery. The attacks were thwarted at the last minute as security services from Aramco, the Kingdom’s largest oil company, intercepted and killed the vehicles drivers, but caused significant instability in the ...