[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

s88179113.onlinehome.us/2009-09-09/faloja-syrian_regime_meddles_in_yemen/post.html

[G8 Diplomat]

Whoa...interesting. Iran AND Syria are poking around the Arabian peninsula.

If I read it right it claims Syria is smuggling weapons to the Shi’ites in eastern Saudi Arabia, where the oilfields are. Iran has always thought about arming them to make controlling the oil difficult for Saudi and try to get a pro-Iran hold on it. Maybe they’re using their proxy to do their dirty work for them.

[Cindy]

Thanks to G8 Diplomat for this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2339865/posts

and this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/14/yemen-al-qaida-saudi-arabia-iran

Simon Tisdall
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 September 2009 19.30 BST

SNIPPET: “Renewed fighting in northern Yemen between government and rebel forces is feeding fears that a Middle Eastern proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is spreading to the ungoverned spaces of the southern Arabian peninsula. But western analysts are staring boggle-eyed at quite a different spectre: the prospect that the biggest beneficiaries of Yemeni weakness will be the fanatical jihadis of al-Qaida.”