http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-security-qaeda-idUKKBN0TK3DW20151201
Today when KSA did execute them (as well as the other prisoner, they threatened to retaliate see
Posted on 12/20/2015 1:45:38 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Thanks AdmSmith.
What will be written under the headline “Protests of 2016”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatif
Oilprice http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CO1:COM
If this goes bad, I expect the price movement in world oil market. All the efforts Saudi put into driving down the oil price can be offset by chain reaction from this execution.
Qatari Foreign Minister Holds Telephone Conversation with Iranian Counterpart
Friday January 01, 2016
Doha, January 01 (QNA) - HE Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah held Friday a conversation via telephone with Foreign Minister of Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammed Javad Zarif.
They discussed the latest developments of the kidnapping of Qatari citizens in Iraq. (QNA)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-security-qaeda-idUKKBN0TK3DW20151201
Today when KSA did execute them (as well as the other prisoner, they threatened to retaliate see
It is heating up in Qatif. Bring the popcorn.
Wow.
Thanks for the ping.
Wow. The Eastern Province and the center of oil production. I worked there in the early to late 80’s.
Meanwhile we haven’t executed a single one.
Both Iran and Saudi are pushing for making the Shia/Sunni divide a big issue, see “How Sunni-Shia Sectarianism Is Poisoning Yemen” by: FAREA AL-MUSLIMI http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=62375
and “Sectarian Twitter Wars: Sunni-Shia Conflict and Cooperation in the Digital Age” by ALEXANDRA SIEGEL
http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/12/20/sectarian-twitter-wars-sunni-shia-conflict-and-cooperation-in-digital-age
Does not look good. Live fire and tanks may not be far away.
If dozens are killed because of this, what would be the responses from Iraq and Iran? Just watching it happening and doing nothing won’t be acceptable to them.
He led anti-government protests that erupted in 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring, and made speeches calling for the downfall of the al-Saud monarchy and equality for the country's Shia community - but was careful to avoid calling for violence, analysts told Reuters.
His activity led to his arrest in June 2012 after being shot and wounded by police officers.
When Nimr was sentenced to death in October 2014, consecutive days of protests were held in the Eastern Province as well as warnings from around the region, including from Hezbollah and Iran, concerned that if the ruling was upheld it would provoke discord and violence.
At the time, analysts told MEE that Nimr’s death sentence was likely a reflection of growing pressure felt by the Saudi monarchy, particularly from the kingdom's Sunnis who resented Saudi Arabia's participation in the US-led coalition against the Islamic State.
“There is quite a lot of resentment among Saudi groups that sympathise with ISIS [Islamic State],” Madawi al-Rasheed, visiting professor at the London School of Economics Middle East Centre, told MEE.
In combination with the recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the kingdom's support of the 2013 ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Egyptian presidency, the majority of Sunnis in Saudi “are a bit suspicious of the intentions of the Saudi regime,” Rasheed said in October.
“Therefore a death sentence, which seems to be very harsh, on a Shia personality [Sheikh Nimr] - who is a controversial figure comes at the right time for the Saudi regime in order to gain a semblance of being heavy-handed on all groups, Sunni and Shia, who threaten security.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-executes-47-including-top-shiite-cleric-1355312477
The Saudi government tried to keep those that took the Wahhabi interpretation literally happy by allowing them to promote their visions outside the Kingdom. But, as the schools in Saudi are promoting hardcore Wahhabism and Salafism, the Kingdom will get a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)
In scenes reminiscent of Libya, Egypt and Bahrain, masked protesters fill the streets, fling rocks and chant “martyrdom is better than oppression” as police bullets fly. In the Shia-dominated Eastern region of Qatif, there has been growing resentment that despite “standing on top of oil fields that feed the world”, local communities suffer poverty, sectarian discrimination and no political freedom.
Figureheads of the protests have been added to government wanted lists, been arrested and several have been killed in dubious circumstances. Saudi filmmaker Safa Al Ahmad risks arrest and worse to get inside this troubled region. In secret meetings protesters share their accounts of the growing state violence against them and their families. One leader's disabled sister tells of how security forces “came while I was sleeping and threatened me with a gun”.
The movement insists it is nonetheless growing, but a few incidences of violence by protesters have alienated many locals and given the state justification for their crackdown. After protesters fire on security forces, police funerals are broadcast on public television and the rioters are officially labelled “terrorists”. Both sides are now entrenched. “It is very dangerous for the future. The state just want to show the iron fist. The only reaction is apathy or violence.”
Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was speaking after demonstrators had stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Mr Jubeir said that all Iranian diplomats must leave Saudi Arabia within 48 hours.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35217328
Next step?
Western intelligence agencies believe that the Saudi monarchy paid for up to 60 per cent of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, in return for the ability to buy warheads for itself at short notice.
With a few exceptions, nearly everyone who fears that Saudi Arabia will acquire a nuclear weapon nonetheless concedes Riyadh wouldn’t build a bomb itself.
But while Saudi Arabia couldn’t purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan, it might have more luck with North Korea. In fact, there are a number of compelling reasons to believe North Korea might be amenable to such a request.
Saudi Arabia could also provide North Korea with other kinds of valuable assistance. For instance, foreign workers make up over half of Saudi Arabia’s labor force, and North Koreans working in Saudi Arabia could provide the Hermit Kingdom with another significant source of hard currency.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-ultimate-nightmare-north-korea-could-sell-saudi-arabia-13162
Heck, I figured that was just one of the royal names...
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