Islamic State Sets Sights On Saudi Arabia
Source: BBC
In a 17-minute audio message, purportedly from its elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group sets its sights firmly on Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam and the world's largest oil producer and exporter.
The speaker does not refer to it as Saudi Arabia, since this is a name derived from the ruling tribe, the al-Saud, whose authority IS does not accept.
Instead he calls it "the land of Haramayn", the land of the two holy places, meaning Mecca and Medina.
Reaching out to IS's growing number of Saudi followers, he sets out a target list for attack, starting with the Shia who make up a minority of Saudi nationals, living mostly in the oil-rich Eastern Province, and whom hardline Salafi radicals view as heretics.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30061109
sabbat hunter
(6,829 posts)SA call the US asking us to send troops there to help protect them?
elias49
(4,259 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)They'd just buy more.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)What a coincidence that would be.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Invade the master. The financiers of 9/11.
President Cheney will be so fucking pissed.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)The Saud's may soon reap what they have sewn through out the region. And they will destroy IS militarily and financially. Win, win !
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Now let's see how masterful the armed forces of Arabia really are.
This may have more beheadings than one can imagine.
Keep us out! They are rich enough to buy an army.
Just do it!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)The Saudi state doesn't like the Shia very much, either.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Would it be that they pissed off their masters (financiers).
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)KJG52
(70 posts)This is really bad news for Jordan, every path to Saudi Arabia from Syria runs through Jordan. Destabilizing the energy supplies of the world is a direct challenge to the Carter Doctrine. I do believe that the USA still feels it must enforce this doctrine and therefore must step up to prevent ISIS from striking into Saudi Arabia... The irony of the country that has been funding and pumping up Islamic extremism throughout the world, being threatened by Islamic extremists and looking to America to pull their bigoted, corrupt, greedy asses out of the fire is too rich... but we'll be right there - because: OIL!!!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)kickysnana
(3,908 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]This is going to get really interesting fast.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)funflower
(3,033 posts)I can't find a map that overlay ISIS territory with Iraq and Syrian oil production, but ISIS has targeted oil in both countries. Not sure this is really about the sanctity of the Two Great Mosques.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)It's ridiculous that the Middle Eastern countries are just sitting around waiting for us to take care of THEIR problem.
IdiocracyTheNewNorm
(97 posts)perhaps the chickens are coming home to roost.
The only sad part is the US Military will come and save them, to protect the oil, while the Saudi people will sit on their lazy asses.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)He wants to control Mecca, even if just for a day.
Then off to 70 virgins, go for it dude.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)since that it the top of their list
daleo
(21,317 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)I think those two deserve each other
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)By ROBIN WRIGHT
Published: September 28, 2013
..
A different map would be a strategic game changer for just about everybody, potentially reconfiguring alliances, security challenges, trade and energy flows for much of the world, too.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/imagining-a-remapped-middle-east.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
?w=584&h=356
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)SA has been paying off terrorists for decades in return for leaving SA alone.
The chickens have come home to roost !!!!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)for the Saudi royals to lose their heads at the hands of the same.
maybe after they're gone, our government can finally explain what their role was in 9/11.