Mexico: No Evidence of al-Qaida Threat

Feb 15, 9:59 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico has found no evidence of a reported al-Qaida threat to attack Mexican oil facilities in order to disrupt the flow of petroleum to the United States, a top security official said Thursday.

Roberto Campa, executive secretary of Mexico's National Public Security Council, said there is no evidence to back up the threats against his country's heavily guarded oil facilities.

An article posted on the Internet purportedly by a Saudi Arabian group affiliated with al-Qaida urged Muslim militants to attack oil facilities worldwide, including Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.

"Cutting oil supplies to the United States, or at least curtailing it, would contribute to the ending of the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan," said the purported article, which had not been independently verified.

But it has not been possible to verify independently that the posting was from a terror faction.