[Ouderkirk]

See this is where the 12’ers come in. And I don’t know enough about them beyond the overall philosophy of the 12th imam and the chaos needed to bring his return etc.

Shia have their largest populations in Iraq (60–65%), Iran (90–96%). So, they may well figure that now is the time to play their hand if they have a deliverable nuke (if we assume that they have at least one working unit maybe two) They may not be high yield, but it’s probably enough to kill millions. Toss one into Riyadh maybe another into Israel, and it sure would change the dynamics.

I do suspect that the real target is the House of Saud.

Destroy Mecca and Medina? OK...that’s a new one on me, but I’ll cede that point. If the Shia want new holier places Qom I assume is the new Mecca since the Mahdi was tossed in the well there or something like that.

We are dealing with people who have been breeding with their first cousins for 1400 years. Nothing good comes of it.

[justa-hairyape]

Just remember reading many years ago, when I first found out Islam was a broken crescent, that the Shiites are already preparing new holy sites for the Shiite caliphate. Those sites are in Iraq mostly and their presence caused all that Shiite/Sunni bloodshed there when we were controlling that nation.

In case anyone cares, the UN has pulled out of Yemen today. No ceasefire possible. All out war now in Yemen.