Trump says US 'locked and loaded' after Saudi Arabia attack, as oil prices soar

US president says he has ‘reason to believe we know the culprit’ of the drone attacks on Aramco plant

Donald Trump has said the US is “locked and loaded” and to ready respond to drone attacks on a petroleum processing facility in Saudi Arabia, saying the US knows who was behind it.

The US president tweeted that he had “reason to believe that we know the culprit” behind the series of drone attacks on the Abqaiq facility, which is the world’s largest petroleum processing plant. It has disrupted more than half of the kingdom’s oil output and will affect global supplies.

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