Posted on 07/03/2014 5:42:18 AM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
07/03/2014
While up until now the virtual war between Saudi Arabia, openly calling for the ouster of Iraq's Maliki (whose words in retaliation were just as harsh) was primarily of words, things appear to be escalating on that front too following an overnight report that Saudi Arabia has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported Thursday. The world's top oil exporter shares an 500-mile border with Iraq, where Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) insurgents and other Sunni Muslim militant groups seized towns and cities in a lightning advance last month. King Abdullah has ordered all necessary measures to protect the kingdom against potential "terrorist threats," state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.
Al-Arabiya said on its website that Saudi troops fanned into the border region after Iraqi government forces abandoned positions, leaving the Saudi and Syrian frontiers unprotected.
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An officer in the video aired by al-Arabiya said that the soldiers had been ordered to quit their posts without justification. The authenticity of the recording could not immediately be verified.
Iraq was quick to object to the stated reason for the troop buildup, claiming its border with Saudi Arabia is well protected: "We haven’t experienced or noticed any abnormal situation" along border area with Iraq, Major General Mansour al-Turki, Interior Ministry’s spokesman, says in text message responding to questions. In any case, there are now tens od thousands of Saudi troops just waiting for the order to cross the border and join what is now a feeding prozy war zoo involving the US, Iran, Russia, Syria, and - likely very soon- Israel. What can possibly go wrong.
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marked for later,
Guess obummer was right-don’t know about what.
Hey, look at the Saudi’s all defending themselves and $h*t.
I just hope Obama is reading this bit of news.
forgive my ignorance,
Just how good is the Saudi military?
How well trained?
How loyal?
How well equipped?
Appreciate any info?
Let em duke it out. As long as they nuke each other..Problem?
Saudi Arabia is finally putting some of their OWN people into the fight, as they may no longer depend upon the American mercenaries to come to their aid. This can only be good, as the Saudis have been isolated and above all the fighting going on up until now.
They are the ones who shall have to get down and dirty in the trenches, going house to house, slaughtering all the inhabitants of a particular domicile whether they were enemy combatants or not, and having to turn over the corpses only to discover, belatedly, that those corpses had been booby-trapped.
Maybe they can enlist all the Palestinians to come fight their battles for them, shifting them from the front lines with Israel to the front lines of Shi’ite Iraq and Iran.
I love the smell of burning Islamic flags in the morning.
This was only a matter of time
The Saudis have been funding radical Islam for a long time; now the fire they lit has come back to threaten their own house.
Moreover, the loyalty of their troops (and populace) is largely based on tribal allegiance to the house of Saud;
that loyalty may—MAY—be available for sale, to the highest bidder. If so, the Saudi clan may be in trouble.
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I wouldn’t trust Saudi military...
Saudi natives are soft...note most work is done by non Saudis
Saudis are subsidized and pampered by the Royal Family to keep them from rebelling
Saudis do have latest military equipment...but their resolve is another matter
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