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Mexico, Venezuela on watch after Qaeda oil threat
This image made from an undated al-Qaeda video made available by IntelCenter on Tuesday, Feb.13, 2007, shows a man identified as Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri.
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Petroleumworld.com 02 15 06Mexico and Venezuela on Wednesday said they were on watch after the Saudi branch of Al-Qaeda called for attacks on installations that supply oil to the United States.
Mexico's Tourism Minister Rodolfo Elizondo said the information was "worrisome ... if it is confirmed."
"Everything that involves security has an impact on tourism," he added.
The Mexican president's office did not immediately issue a reaction.
In Venezuela, Interior Minister Pedro Carreno said security forces were at work to guarantee oil industry installations.
"Venezuela has its intelligence units set to investigate to guarantee .. strategic resources," he said.
"Oil interests in all regions (of the world) from which the United States benefits should be hit, not only in the Middle East," the group said in an article in its online monthly magazine, Sawt al-Jihad (the Voice of Jihad).
Mexico, the world's sixth largest oil producer, exports most of its oil to the neighboring United States.
AFP 15 0332 GMT 02 07
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