Posted on 03/01/2011 5:35:17 AM PST by BossLady
Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of tanks to Bahrain, where anti-government protests continue for about two weeks, Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing "15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each heading towards Bahrain" along the 25-km King Fahd causeway, which links the small island nation of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
Protestors are mainly Shiites account for about 70% of the Bahraini population, but have long complained of discrimination and other abuses by the Sunni Khalifa dynasty that has ruled the tiny Gulf nation for more than two centuries.
In the worst unrest in the kingdom since the 1990s, a wave of protests swept across Bahrain in the past weeks. At least six people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes with police.
Opposition threatens to hold more protests and a nationwide strike if the government refuses to resign.
“Not only that, but Bahrain is home to the primary US Naval base in the Persian Gulf.”
The Kenyan usurper is probably thinking “Yikes! We gotta get out of there FAST!!!”/sarcasm;)
Where’s Lawrence when you need him?;)
If the Saudis were smart, they would stop exporting money for fundamentalist madrassahs, stop supporting radical clerics, and use the money to beef up their armed forces.
Those British and French civil servants Sykes and Picot
stabbed him in the back!
If the Saudis sold or leased the tanks to them, then of course it would be true that the tanks were Bahraini. THis way, the Saudis could avoid many complications. Particularly if the tank crews were awarded dual Saudi/Bahraini citizenship for the duration of the unrest. Much like the French commandos were converted to Islam before being let into Mecca to take down the rebels that held the Kaaba a few years ago.
Where did you see that French commandos were used to retake the Kaaba?
“If the Saudis were smart, they would stop exporting money for fundamentalist madrassahs, stop supporting radical clerics, and use the money to beef up their armed forces.”
You see a madrassah, I see a boot camp. You see radical clerics, I see an officer corps. I say they need to beef up their armed forces, I say they already have.
Pakistani SSG commandos were rushed to Mecca from Pakistan at the Saudi Government's request. Lawrence Wright reports that three Frenchmen were called in, members of the highly trained GIGN counter-terrorism unit. Because non-Muslims are not allowed in the holy city, they converted to Islam in a brief formal ceremony by Saudi religious leaders.[16] Saudi officials deny the French actually entered Mecca.Other accounts I've come across said the French Commandos were in Mecca.
“Let’s hope the Middle East is aflame and these two groups go about killing each other for many more years.”
Like when Saddam’s war criminals were killing and being killed by the Mullah’s war criminals from Iran.
I hope the french used fake ID’s so they could convert back out when the job was done! Or do they issue a 48-hour “Mohammopass”?;))
American had better wake up,
HOGWASH.
Unreliable news source consistently. Worse the DEBKA.
Not to mention it is disinformation coming out of Iran through Syria.
There's no "there" "there".
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