Saudi Arabia threatens to blockade Qatar over terrorism
Source: Irish Times
Saudi Arabia has threatened to blockade neighbouring Qatar by air, land and sea unless Doha cuts ties with Egypts Muslim Brotherhood, closes global channel al-Jazeera, and expels local branches of the US Brookings Institution and Rand Corporation think tanks.
The threat was issued by Riyadh before it withdrew its ambassador to Doha and branded as terrorist organisations the brotherhood, Lebanons Hizbullah and al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Jabhat al-Nusra.
Although the kingdom has long been the font of Sunni ultra-orthodox Salafism and jihadism, it now seeks to contain radical movements and media and other organisations giving them publicity.
King Abdullah has decreed that any Saudi who fights abroad could be jailed for 20-30 years, and those who join, endorse or provide moral or material support to groups classified as terrorist or extremist will risk prison sentences of five to 30 years.
Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/saudi-arabia-threatens-to-blockade-qatar-over-terrorism-1.1719434
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Diclotican
(5,095 posts)n2doc
If the Saudi-Arabia was to enforce the ban of their citizens fighting abroad - then at least 25 percent of the population have to be put inside a prison cell for the next 10-20 year - as many saudis have been fighting - or paying for other to fight their wars by proxy over the last couple of decades....
Diclotican
KansDem
(28,498 posts)From January 4, 1991 --
"You think I want to send my son to die in Kuwait?" The Southeast Missourian
KansDem
Back then too - but Saudi-Arabia as a State, and powerfully groups inside Saudi-Arabia have been founding extremist groups all over the muslim world - and beyond - for as long as back to when Oil was first discovered in the country....
And until 2004, when Al-Qauda attached a compound with foreigns inside Ryad, the capital of Saudi-Arabia The Royals in Saudi-Arabia appeased Al-Qauda to the cool sum of One milliard dollar every year - from 1991 (after the Kuwait-War) to 2004 - that is a LOT of dollars shuffled over to Al-Qauda... And far from all of that money have ever been rediscovered after the crackdown in 2004...
Diclotican
Pakistan's terror apparatus is almost entirely thanks to Saudi Arabia and USA.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)"Riyadh wants to contain radical groups and media at odds with foreign jihad policy"
Frankly I'm glad their detente is on the rocks.
It's too rich hearing Saudi Arabia talk of containing terrorists and extremists.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ok, when the French went in and helped Mali the 'terrorists' left behind lots of garbage and papers. plane tickets, supplies, papers all from Saudi Arabia. What King Abdullah? no interest in Mali?
I think these words today are just 'economic war-words' between 2 oil kingdoms. Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have the best 'war contractors' though & the money to hire the best.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Now that the royalist duo, not coincidentally U.S. "allies," fucked up every other Arab country beyond repair...
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Talk about trying to put a fig leaf in place ...