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Suicide Bomber Kills 13 At Saudi Mosque
Back in May, a suicide bomber struck a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during prayers, killing more than 20 people. The blast was claimed by ISIS, and as we said afterwards, "we're no weathermen, but based on recent history in Yemen we wonder if a 'Decisive Storm' might be on the horizon in Syria.’”
Fast forward to Wednesday, and Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was busy talking up a new "comprehensive battle plan" which Ankara is purportedly set to launch with the help of the US military. The target: why ISIS of course, and as we noted yesterday, no one should be at all surprised that Cavusoglu also mentioned the distinct possibility that Saudi Arabia and Qatar will join the fight as part of an anti-terror "coalition."
Of course this is all simply a smokescreen on the way to removing Bashar al-Assad from Damascus, and just in case Saudi Arabia - which is also fighting another proxy war in Yemen - needed a new excuse to invade Syria it got one on Thursday when tragically, another suicide bomber struck, killing 13 at a mosque inside a state security unit.
Here’s Reuters:
A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13 people and wounded nine on Thursday, the Saudi state news agency reported, citing an interior ministry spokesman.
State television had earlier reported a death toll of 17.
The mosque in Abha, the capital of Asir province, was part of the local headquarters of a state security unit called the Special Emergency Force, the spokesman was cited as saying.
Of those killed, 10 were members of the force, while three were workers in the compound. They were praying when the bomber struck within their ranks, he said.
And here's BBC:
A senior Saudi official told the BBC the bombing targeted a mosque used by security forces in Abha, close to the Yemeni border.
Two deadly attacks on Shia mosques in May were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Saudi Arabia is also heading a campaign against Shia-led rebels in neighbouring Yemen.
Saudi TV reports that many of those killed were members of the security forces.
The mosque was used by a Swat team tasked with domestic security, officials say.
It is not yet clear who carried out the attack and no group has yet claimed it.
Last month Saudi authorities arrested 431 suspected members of IS, accusing them of plotting suicide attacks on security forces and mosques in various parts of the country.
Obviously this took place closer to Yemen than to Syria, but we suspect it will be promptly blamed on ISIS, and regardless of who ends up taking "credit" for the attack, it will almost certainly be trotted out as evidence for why the Kingdom needs to get more aggressive when it comes to countering terror threats both to the north and the south.
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I still do not know which side I should be cheering for. The teams change way too frequently for me to keep up.
Here’s another piece of non-MSM news ;-)
It seems the Mistrals saga is almost at the end.
The French have agreed to pay the Russians €1.2 billion, including the advance of €840 million.
Hollande and Putin have spoken on the phone and agreed that “this dossier is closed” [sic].
The French are now stuck with these two expensive pieces of shit and no other country either wants or can afford those.
In my very humpable opinion, both Mistrals can be foundered (sunk), with the Bilderberg Group welded in.
This day would be celebrated by all countries for centuries to come as the World’s Independence Day. ;-)
Looney
Suicide Bomber was identified as John Kerry
Are you saying all horses look the same?
Dat rayciss.
The first of many as Saudi Arabia descends into chaos.
This article drips with bias, all but stating outright that this is somehow a bad thing.
@ PartysOver:
Sounds like you need a "Mass dandelion break"... but don't take too long.
LOL, Good one. Just substitute the dandelions with a cold adult beverage.
A "cold adult beverage" does sound appealing.
Actually, this thirty year old Bloom County is more to the point of your original comment.
'Who'z the good guys?"
Are they brown people? OK, then nobody cares.
Couldn't happen to a nicer country
I'm sure it had nothing to do with SA attacking Yemen and murdering their children.
Couldn't be that.
We're all broken up about this?
Was this guy a Louis Farrakhan disciple! just following orders...
Probably three angry white guys.
At least they respected the "Gun-Free Zone" signs this time and just used a bomb.
A good kebab is a dead kebab.
He is dead, but he's got his 72 virgins.
I always hear references about the 72 virgins but never hear if they are female or male. That is a risky proposition.
Or species.
Saudi Arabia keeps killing in Yemen. There will be blowback. This is just the beginning of the beginning.
US-backed Saudi strikes in Yemen kill 120 civilians
By Thomas Gaist27 July 2015
Saudi war planes killed at least 120 civilians in a series of airstrikes in the city of Taiz late Friday night. The strikes destroyed buildings that were serving as workers’ quarters as well as a nearby agricultural facility.
The attack was only the latest instance of mass killing of civilians in the bombing campaign waged by the Saudi-led, US-backed coalition that began in March.
Despite claims from Riyadh that such events are accidental, a growing body of evidence shows that the Saudi air campaign is systematically targeting civilian areas. The war is aimed at terrorizing the Yemeni masses into opposing the Houthi takeover and acceding to the restoration of US-Saudi control over the country through the re-imposition of the puppet government led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/27/yeme-j27.html
At least 3,500 have been killed as a result of the Saudi-led war, launched on March 26 of this year. Some 1,700 of these have been confirmed as civilians, according to the UN, with some 3,800 more civilians confirmed wounded.
Nearly 80 percent of the Yemeni population faces conditions of starvation, near starvation, and/or lack of reliable access to drinking water.
More than 1.2 million Yemenis have been forced to flee their homes by the war. At least 50,000 of the displaced have fled the country entirely, seeking refuge in neighboring countries of Oman, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.
Responsibility for the bloodshed and humanitarian disaster in Yemen lies squarely with Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf monarchies and their backers in Washington. While technically headed by the Saudi monarchy, the military onslaught against Yemen is a direct outgrowth of US imperial policy in the Middle East.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/20/yeme-j20.html
It really is a war over oil.
.
the race war to a large extent is a class war, spoils go to the victor and all.
A brown guy with a turbin walks into a mosque
Now that's what I call a very weak start... Let's hope they can do better than this!
Let's hope there are many more fireworks that spread all the way north west through Jordan reaching the "ultimate goal"!
saudi in flames is good for the region... bullish for US shale
Gotta love the sectarian dirt naps, SDN's.
May Muslims burn in the hell they have created .... until they sue for peace .... and change their murderous ways .... forever !
Their world has been hellish for centuries, and if anything this has reinforced their faith in their pathetic anti-human political/spiritual rulebooks that are the cause of their backward misery.
so they attacked a military target... while Saudi starves and murders people in Yemen...
the story should be that not enough Saudis are getting their comeuppins
We should be thankful when both sides lose.
If congress votes for CIA/ISIS to attack Saudi US shale can be saved. More jobs for Americans...... send a letter to your congressman
This one is just too funny!
Suicide bomber blows up at his own funeral, they forgot to remove his bomb belt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyJl4Zu4zs
That guy Allen Ackber is sure popular; that's all they ever scream and repeatedly also.
Always a bridesmaid; never a bride.
Payback's a bitch................
They sell Gummy Bears at Saudi Mosques as well?
May the victory over Islamic aggression .... be 100 times more decisive .... than the victories of World War II !
Ever noticed how the overwhelming majority of those murdered are... Muslim civilians? It's almost like somebody's plan is working.
Yeah .... that's all there are in Muslim countries .... they are intolerant closed societies !
Fuck Vichy DC & Sodomy Arabia and THEIR Terror Organisations.
Live by the bomb, die by the bomb. I guess.
Aren't the Saudi's arming and supporting their murdering scum kin folks ISIS..?
http://www.rt.com/news/311741-suicide-bomber-saudi-mosque/
Obviously done by the Hooters.
What is the Muslim demographic breakdown of Turkey? https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html
<99.3% Muslim mostly Sunni>
WTF does mostly mean? It means they don't know.
Maybe that's why Turkey was supposed to have a "secular" govt, to avoid the coming Sunni Shia civil war.
110 years ago there have benn 20% Christians there.
Where did they disapear?
Aaaaaaaaa, some were killed in the Armenian genocide.
Only so much dear gringos, you support the people, who killed your predecessors.