UAE And Qatar Pledge Aircraft In Libya Conflict, As Iran Calls On Saudi, UAE To Leave Bahrain Immediately

According to the BBC, the Gulf Cooperation Council has just gotten involved with the UAE pledging 24 aircraft and Qatar - 4 to 6. It is still unclear if Saudi Arabia will now lead a two front war following its invasion of Bahrain last week. Additionally, Al Jazeera reports that the Libyan authorities had detained one of its reporting teams several days ago when working in west Libya. The channel said, in a report on its website, that the team included two correspondents, one Tunisian and another Mauritanian, and two cameramen, one Norwegian and one British. But most troubling is that per Gaddafi's earlier address to the people he would start arming the civilian population to defend Libya. From Reuters: "Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Saturday he will arm civilians to defend Libya from what he called "colonial, crusader" aggression by Western forces that have launched air strikes against him. "It is now necessary to open the stores and arm all the masses with all types of weapons to defend the independence, unity and honour of Libya," Gaddafi said in a speech broadcast on state television hours after the strikes began. "We call on the peoples and citizens of the Arab and Islamic nations, Latin America, Asia and Africa to stand by the heroic Libyan people to confront this aggression, which will only increase the Libyan people's strength, firmness and unity," he said." Whether that means that UN forces will treat every civilian as a possible enemy combatants will be seen upon the land incursion which should commence within a few days. Unclear if Xe will be involved this time.

And just to show that leading a war on two fronts may not be the best option even for those countries which continue to believe they can endlessly buy the love of their citizens, here is Iran warning Saudi Arabia and the UAE to leave Bahrain immediately. From Xinhua:

The National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament (Majlis) issued a statement in support of the Bahraini people and called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to leave Bahrain's soil immediately, the Satellite Press TV reported on Saturday.

"The oppressed people of Bahrain are a part of the Islamic world and the Islamic Republic of Iran feels obligated to support them," the statement was cited as saying on Saturday.

The United States is definitely responsible for the murder of Bahrainis by ordering its "regional mercenaries" to invade the country and repress peaceful protesters, the statement added.

The statement also called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to take serious actions on regional developments.

Bahrain has slammed Iran's "interference" in its internal affairs after the latter communicated with international organizations expressing concern about the situation in the Kingdom.

The BBC has been providing some of the best coverage of the conflict so far. It can be accessed after the jump

Comments

[i-dog]

I agree with his headline, but not with many of his premises. The "colour revolutions" are from the CIA playbook and are being fomented to both drive up the price of oil (some countries are not getting bankrupted quickly enough) and achieve some regime changes (some puppets have been in place for to too long and are now "not listening" closely enough when spoken to).

It's becoming difficult to know which of the magician's hands to watch!

[Yen Cross]

 That makes sense.

[ivars]

Here is how I see export doubling by the USA:

From now on, USA military actions are sold for the USD, Arabs with oil fields are paying.

This is what Obama calls Doubled export increase-

-first inflation export by QE2;
-now military protection is being sold in USD to fight the consequences of the first export.

In the end, we all pay with higher oil prices again.

So it goes. A vicious circle America and the West is being drawn into, but of their own making. Overleveraged companies can not sustain external shocks. Nor can overeleveraged coutnries. External shocks seem to be in abundance. So recession in q1 2012 is another step closer ( in fact, its unavodable, but interesting to see what events which lead to Peak oil will ultimately achieve the implementation of recession).

See my old Feb 6th graph, which will be followed nicely again with this spike in oil prices and consequenct  dip in DJIA. Libyan war is just another episode in spiking the oil.

http://saposjoint.net/Forum/download/file.php?id=2609

http://saposjoint.net/Forum/download/file.php?id=2608

I am also waiting for spike in coming days and weeks in silver (up to 45 USD) and gold prices with heavy correction ( 40-50%) very soon ( sales by gold (Japan?) in big amounts by someone or redirecting resources to oil and military preparation?)

http://saposjoint.net/Forum/download/file.php?id=2673

[Yen Cross]

Buy the dip. 45 in 2013.

[Zero Govt]

Jim Sinclair (gold expert and wise old sage on corrupt politics) is saying the winner here will be Iran. 

Not sure about that but I'm 100% certain the loser is going to be the West. Not only in financial terms at the vast expense (we can't afford) of yet another murderous dumb foreign campaign but in integrity, image and credibility.

Can i point out to the Arabs we the people are not the same as our insane meddling political assholes and their parasitical scumbag vested interests. They do not act in our name or with our support. The Arabs should be allowed to have their own squabbles and sort their own shit out. Our murderous expensive meddling will come to precisely nought as it has done everywhere.... sorry about that!  

[Ima anal sphincter]

+1

[gnomon]

Before this is over the mullahs in Iran will get what they want.  But that little bastard that emerges from the well will be slip-sliding his way all the way to what used to be Mecca on radioactive glass.