Saudi Security Forces Wounded in Attack in Eastern Province

[Bosonic]

Source: Bloomberg

Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Eleven members of the Saudi Arabian security forces were wounded by attackers armed with machine guns and Molotov cocktails during unrest in a Shiite Muslim town in the east, the official Saudi Press Agency said.

Saudi Arabia accused an unnamed “foreign country” of seeking to undermine the stability of the kingdom through rioting in Awwamiya, the Riyadh-based news service reported. A man and two women were also injured, the news service said.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil supplier, has largely escaped the mass protests that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia this year and spread to the Saudi neighbors of Yemen and Bahrain. There were some rallies earlier in the year in mostly Shiite eastern Saudi Arabia, including in Awwamiya and the village of al-Qatif.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-04/saudi-security-forces-wounded-in-attack-in-eastern-province.html

[happyslug]

1. Notice no comment, that those same eastern Arabian Shiite areas, is also where the oil is

Proposed map of the Middle East, with borders re-drawn to reflect ethnicity of the region:


http://www.oilempire.us/new-map.html

Map of Saudi Arabia main oil fields:

http://205.254.135.24/emeu/cabs/Saudi_Arabia/Full.html

Thus this incident occurred in the area where the oil is.

[JDPriestly]

2. Iran? Why the mystery about the name of the suspected attacker?

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[JDPriestly]

4. I thought of Iran because it is East of Saudi Arabia.

[Javaman]

5. I see the natives are getting restless...

I guess that big pay out by the king and his princely fools to the "common" people in the way of actually funding social programs didn't go over as well as they hoped.

But then again, I wonder just how much of that payout went to the shiites and to the foreign nationals they use as slaves to basically run their society?

these little "incidents" have been happening more and more lately and have been generally suppressed by the US.

With the protests having been beaten down in Bahrain, via saudi jets, which were supplied by the US, they thought this show of force would keep the natives quiet in saudi arabia.

no, it just showed the non sunni population that they have to use different tactics.

soon, the king and his room full of princely dopes will have to speed up the tempo of the dance to stay on top of the natives.

things are on a slow burn. the natives have all the time in the world. the king is 87 and he's trying the best he can to make sure the slaves stay quiet for the next royal ass to be.