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Saudi Soldier Shot Dead By Bahrain Protester As Second Batch Of Saudi Soldiers Arrive

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 08:17 -0400

Black Swan

Meanwhile, after tracking all the manifestations of the black swan clusterflock, and taking a quick look at that "other" crisis, shows that the Gulf, and thus the oil supply picture, are about to be impacted. The AP reports that according to a security official, a Saudi soldier shot dead by opposition protester in Bahrain. We have no idea how this will impact the escalating violence even as Bahrain state TV reports that a second batch of Saudi soldiers has just arrived, following the announcement by the Bahrain king to order a national state of security for three months.

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Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:17 | 1054899 ItsEvolutionBaby

It's on man.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:24 | 1054917 HelluvaEngineer

Mark Faber QE8 video now online:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=3000010534&play=1

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:38 | 1054966 equity_momo

Liesman "stunned" - you could stun that guy with a beachball.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:37 | 1054970 GubbermintWorker

Lies-man is.......stunned!

LOL!!!!

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:49 | 1055012 teaddy bearish

good one

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:18 | 1054900 jesse livermoore

my head is spinning trining to process all these blackswans

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:21 | 1054906 Stormdancer

no kidding...I'm not sure where you go after "surreal".

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:55 | 1055024 EscapeKey

I'm getting a little bit bored of the taste of it.

Can we have some white doves, or something, for a change?

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:18 | 1055144 PY-129-20

Next: Nyarlathotep.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:18 | 1054904 slackrabbit

I spoke to Ben and Mel, and they say there are no things as black swans....the closed loop is fine....now go back to watching Amercian Idol

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:19 | 1054905 TexDenim

Bahrain is effectively managed by a guy who graduated from Harvard Business School. He obviously didn't also graduate from Sandhurst or West Point. This confrontation in Bahrain is stupid and unforgiveable. It may well result in the fall of a regime that was otherwise set for serious economic progress and huge increase in value for investors. What a shame to see this unfolding.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:56 | 1055027 A Man without Q...

You could say the same thing about George W Bush...

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:49 | 1055341 sushi

Effectively managed?

HBS?

HBS instructs you on how to fire a tear gas grenade into a citizen's face from a distance of 3 feet?

Really?

What does HBS say about collateral damage? Loss of Kingdom? Royal ignorance?

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:22 | 1054916 robertocarlos

Is this the real reason why the USS Ronald Reagan left Japan?

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:26 | 1054924 TradingJoe

Oh well! Looks like my puts are screaming to Mars, my Oil Calls lag a bit but...there is always a (Saudi) crisis somewhere, eh?

Feel very sad for the japanese people, they don't seem to get a break, jesus! have japanese neighbors we invited them for a drink last night, they are extremely worried having relatives and parents over there, had no fucking clue how to comfort them, they are wonderful people, lived next to us for many years now, always cool!

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:27 | 1054926 cossack55

Saudi soldier. Since when have Saudis actually started enlisting. More like Euromerc in Saudi uniform.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:10 | 1055698 Ahmeexnal

Shot by a french foreign legionnaire disguised as a bahraini protester.

The irony of it all.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:26 | 1054932 firstdivision

This is a defo escelating at an accelerating rate. With the more troops Saudi sends, they will have less in their own country. I see an uprising staring in the east of Saudi Arabia in the next few days if this keeps up in Bahrain.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:31 | 1054950 jtmo3

Ya, with all the "black swans" hitting, things have gotten even stranger. The ME in turmoil, yet Japan melting down and oil and gas and PM's are literally falling off a cliff. Hey, but there's a race to safety in the US dollar and debt. Let's talk strange!

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:38 | 1054975 overmedicatedun...

TBTF and Fed are trying to under cut PM's, kill the relation of PM's of safe harbor in troubled times..don't think they have enough FRN's to do it. for long.. BTFD.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:43 | 1054989 AUD

I don't 'understand' but kind of not surprised about a race to 'safety' in US debt since speculators are happy to ride a rising price any which way whether in equities, commodities, Treasury debt....but a race into Yen seems strange to me.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:19 | 1055157 Chump

Let PMs fall...pretty please. I need one more chance to load up and I don't have many FRNs.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:24 | 1055480 OldTrooper

Just placed a smallish order myself this morning, Chump. Good luck.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:37 | 1054974 Deluxe186

is rick santelli making sense on cnbc right now......whats the world coming too

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:41 | 1054983 Id fight Gandhi

Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:48 | 1055009 robertocarlos

He's losing it. I have no idea if inflation is happening but I am not protesting food prices.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:39 | 1054976 gordengeko

Panic sets in, this is why it pays to have hedges. It's playing out like TD said it would, margin calls and everything tanks. Silver and gold will snap back once people start to breath again. imo

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:08 | 1055078 Snidley Whipsnae

+1 Gordo... Now is the time to buy calls for those trading paper PMs... imo.

The disaster in Japan is doing what the Fed and it's bullion bank pals couldn't pull off.

Sharp snap back... some will be whip sawed out.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:39 | 1054979 snowball777

Hey man, nice shot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:42 | 1054987 Tense INDIAN

this is simply the funniest Invasion I have ever heard of.......but i i seem to have missed it ...Why EXactly have they invaded Bahrain????

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:46 | 1055005 Nepenthe

Ask why and you might not like the answer...

Iran weighs in

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-bahrain-usa-idUSN1417591520110315?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:14 | 1055119 lincolnsteffens

Yeah, I junked you! WTF "funniest Invasion"? Maybe you would like to be there as our man on the street with your cell phone camera showing your brain exploding in slow mo? Sick arrogant puke

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:20 | 1055165 Snidley Whipsnae

" ...Why EXactly have they invaded Bahrain????"

Bahrain has weapons of mass destruction... You must be out of the loop...Oh wait,... the real reason is that Bahrain is so small that the invasion will only cost $62.71... honest.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:22 | 1055171 rwe2late

Not so funny or amusing:

"... a second batch of Saudi soldiers has just arrived, following the announcement by the Bahrain king to order a national state of security for three months."

The Saudi troops have not been sent to protect human rights. They are obviously in Bahrain to support a crackdown on suspected dissidents, and a round-up of dissident leaders and other potential activists.

Baharain, like Kosovo, is a US military base that is also reputedly a nation-state. Inasmuch as lack of habeaus corpus, indefinite detention without trial, torture, and assassination are contrary to US policy, the US administration/Pentagon will object.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:46 | 1055007 Oh regional Indian

eerily similar to the japan situation, if you look tangentially.

The more you supress anger/people into tighter and tighter placces, the more explosive the outcome. On a nuclear scale, strong forces are present in the tightest spaces.

Teh middle east is just tottering. Wait till this Friday. You know Islam is a Lunar religion? Look at the crescent moon for a hint. Friday is the 18th, Moon will be almost at closest perigee.

It's all beginning to crumble. And with nuclear power being shut down (germany is forst) for review, and oil supply chains under threat, what possible outcomes for this petro-nuclear age?

The mind boggles. To pray for calm? Or pray to just bring it all down so rebuild can begin?

I suspect the universe has it's own pace.

Watch the 22nd, be ready for all eventualities.

ORI

http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/axis-trembles/

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:33 | 1055268 PY-129-20

Nuclear energy was never popular in Germany. There are thousands of demonstrators in the streets, 110.000 protesters just yesterday, 60.000 people on March 12. Remember, we were near enough to Cernobyl and German people made the experience that everyone lied to them - government and media. I mean, we had a news report claiming 5 days after the catastrophe happened that you could drink water around Cernobyl without any problems. This is a sensitive issue in Germany and it will kill Merkel's reelection.

Germans may not be concerned what happens in the stock market (even if the Euro fails, opposing voices are still low), but when it comes to their environment (especially forest) they will protest and even to some extent riot (scenes not unfamiliar around Gorleben). Remember: Roman legio XVII, XVIII and XIX were crushed in the forest. And think of Germanic culture and mythology. This is deep rooted.

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Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:12 | 1055112 Snidley Whipsnae

"Bahrain king to order a national state of security for three months."

Why three months?... Another example of a clueless azz hat pulling a number from thin air...Is this guy related to Ben/Tim?

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:56 | 1055640 StychoKiller

Bahrain waiting for QE3 to kick off in June?

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:14 | 1055115 A Man without Q...

There's a high risk of a full blown Sunni Shia religious war right now. Saudi seems to be provoking the situation, probably looking for an excuse to cull the East of the country of Shia (which they regret not doing 100 years ago), and they and Israel are hoping Iran will react so they can launch an attack.

The US is publicly supporting the right to protest, but you just know they want the opposite and are acting behind the scenes...

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:21 | 1055172 robertocarlos

Holy cow! That is a serious situation. They put Iran in a no win dilemna.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:31 | 1055250 Snidley Whipsnae

Iranians are mostly Persians although also Muslim. How much do they really care about a Sunni/Shia spat in arab countries?

Iran would like to intimidate SA... to the point that Iran could heavily influence price of Mid East oil...and what currencies the oil is denominated in.

If one follows the money motive usually one comes near the mark.

Iran is stirring the pot...

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:18 | 1055143 RenegadeAnalyst

The ME crisis is far from a black swan event. Why is everyone shocked that dictatorial regimes are facing upheavel from their serfs? Guess we need to purchase a few history books.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:30 | 1055783 Ahmeexnal

Buy just one: "Animal Farm".

They want a "revolution"? Let 'em have it.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:17 | 1055148 buzzsaw99

Thug shoots a protester no big deal.

Protester shoots a soldier, yawn!

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:27 | 1055225 Ancona

It sounds like they just gave Iran an excuse to move in. Isn't crossing in to a sovereign nation with tanks and slodiers something along the lines of......a declaration of war?

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:37 | 1055280 Snidley Whipsnae

"It sounds like they just gave Iran an excuse to move in."

Here is a link to a map of the Persian Gulf... Please notice that Iran and SA/Bahrain are seperated by a considerable body of water...called, you guessed it... the Persian Gulf.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:54 | 1055907 msamour

That body of water looks large, but in reality fast boats can cross from Iran to Bahrain in the middle of the night in less than 4 hours with go fast boats. When we patrolled the Gulf in the late 90's, we used to have to be careful as there was often large swarms of little fast boats making runs accross the Persian Gulf between the various countries.

The Parsian Gulf Water has as much traffic as the water along the Straits of Malaca, and there is not too much controlling being done in the waters when it comes to small boats. It would only be a matter of 5 to 6 hours for a few hundred Iranian soldiers to make it to Bahrain. I know I have been there twice.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:51 | 1055344 i-dog

"Isn't crossing in to a sovereign nation with tanks and slodiers something along the lines of......a declaration of war?"

Errrr ... not if they were invited in by the ruler. Doh!

BTW, the US has been trying every trick in the book to provoke Iran into reacting to provocations from all directions for quite some time now ... all without success ... and this time is no different. Iran is too smart and will also not react to this obvious provocation.

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 09:31 | 1055254 koaj