The Saudi branch of terrorist group Al Qaeda Wednesday made a call to launch attacks on oil facilities based in countries outside the Middle East supplying oil to the United States, and suggested nations such as Canada, Mexico and Venezuela, AFP reported.

"In the long term, the United States will no longer need the Middle East (for oil supplies) or is to curb dependence, and it will be supplied with oil from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela," the Saudi faction of Al Qaeda said.

"We should strike petroleum interests in all areas which supply the United States, and not only in the Middle East, because the target is to stop its imports or decrease it by all means," said the group on the on-line magazine Sawt al-Jihad (Voice of Jihad).

The featured article, "Bin Laden and the Oil Weapon," written by Adeeb al-Bassam, claims that targets should be oilfields, pipelines, loading platforms and carriers, which Bassam believes will ultimately choke the US economy.