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Saudis 'in a panic mode' as Shi'ite rebels move North from Yemen
WorldTribune.com ^ | 12/04/2009 | WorldTribune.com

Posted on 12/05/2009 2:58:05 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld

Jordan has sent several hundred troops from its special operations forces to help the Saudi military with its many Shi'ite units contain the Yemeni Shi'ite rebellion, which has spread deep into the Arab kingdom.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabianpeninsula; iran; islam; jordan; riyadh; saudiarabia; saudimilitary; saudis; shiite; yemen
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To: sonofstrangelove

When the Sauds stop trying to recruit wannabee terrorists from our prison system I might give a flip.


21 posted on 12/06/2009 11:28:35 AM PST by GOPJ (Has Tiger EVER had an affair with a black woman?)
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To: sonofstrangelove; SatinDoll; airborne; octex; Senator John Blutarski; Thermalseeker; RU88; bert; ...
You know what really gets me about this.
We went into Kuwait in 1991 in order to save Saudi Arabia from Saddam’s expansion of territory. GWII was to clean up the mess. Whoever controls Saudi Arabia has the key to the Middle East they would have control of Mecca and the main supply of oil of the Middle East.

Given all that we don’t seem concerned over this war. Why?
Have we learned our lesson to stay out of Islam's power struggle or is it something else?

22 posted on 12/08/2009 2:24:12 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Progressive thought

War is bad and there must be no war. War became obsolete after Vietnam . There can be no more war, regardless.


23 posted on 12/08/2009 2:30:18 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: bert

“... essence of the piece is that the moderate Arab Nations, being Jordan and Saudi Arabi, are now in a shooting war with Iran.”

No! Really? We’re not stupid, bert.

Saudi Arabia and Jordan, tyrannical monarchies, are arch enemies of Israel, a democracy, and thus so would any freind of Israel (that would be us).

Saudi Arabian and Jordanian subjects have financially supported Wahhabism and Barack Obama to the detriment of our citizenry. Those two are not our allies - never have been allies because we’re NOT a muslim country (no matter what Obama states).

Iran, with nukes or without, is presently in a perilous political and economic situation, both at home and globally. Trying to conquer Saudi Arabia is, quite frankly, stupid on their part because they will now be overextended militarily and financially. Besides, conquest is messy. It is impossible to predict the outcome, and once the fighting starts is can end up anywhere, strategically speaking.

As for petroleum, it is about time we started to drill, drill, drill! We Americans can perform pretty damn well in a crunch.


24 posted on 12/08/2009 2:59:50 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: SatinDoll

Late to the party troll with no clue about the ways of the world

Israel, Jordan and all the GCC are defacto allies in the war with Iran.


25 posted on 12/08/2009 3:06:26 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: bert

You don’t know dick.

I was working a desk on Middle East intelligence (NAVSECGRU) when you were tending to bees and wooly caterpillers.

Stick with what you know, troll!


26 posted on 12/08/2009 3:33:38 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: bert
"The Saudi air force has been heavily bombing villages inside Yemen, but this has not made a dent in the capabilities of the Shi'ite rebels," the source said. "They have been well-trained by Iran and Hizbullah and have moved steadily north in Saudi Arabia."

Sort of hard to pass this little nugget up.

Do you think our chickenshit president of the United States will lift a finger when these rebels start bombing and cutting the capabilities of the Saudi to produce petrol and fuel tops say $6.00 a gallon in the USA???

Of course it will be Bush's fault / s

27 posted on 12/08/2009 3:38:02 PM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress, your pink slips are coming ...............)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Interesting home page:

Original birth certificate ——————————————Unavailable
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Soetoro adoption records-————————————— Unavailable
Dept.of Education Hawaii Kindergarten Records—Unavailable
Punahou School records-——————————————Unavailable
Occidental College records- ——————————————Unavailable
Obama the poet (Occidental College):
“Pop takes another shot, neat, Points out the same amber Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and Makes me smell his smell, coming From me...”
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/prespoetry/bo.html
Columbia College ——————————————————Unavailable
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(Topic: Nuclear Disarmament, written during Cold War ’83)
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(Evidence that one may have been written, yet it is unsigned)
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Indonesian Besuki School Application—————————Located
(Enrolled with name Barry Soetoro-faith “Islam”)
Selective Service Registration- -— Released, but suspected as fraudulent


28 posted on 12/08/2009 4:27:07 PM PST by GOPJ (Climategate-Who do YOU trust? MSM journalists-Used car salesmen-Alarmist scientists-None of above?)
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To: SatinDoll

We’ll see.

When the shit hits the fan there will be an alliance.


29 posted on 12/08/2009 4:28:00 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: bert

Wise to the ways of the World Bert, was that not you that tried to state that Dubai did Not use slave labor the other day? No?


30 posted on 12/08/2009 4:35:29 PM PST by Carilisa (In the Heart of Big Snow Country)
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To: Carilisa

Actually, that wasn’t the case.

The slave issue had to do with the construction of the tallest building in the world and was siezed by anti islam bigots who chose to use the moment to advance their own bias.


31 posted on 12/08/2009 4:39:13 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: GOPJ

yeah i try to keep it up to date. not sure if it is.


32 posted on 12/08/2009 6:35:31 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: bert
i am sorry... are you implying that Islam has some good points?
Yes i am bias.
33 posted on 12/08/2009 7:01:45 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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