Iraq and Saudi Arabia violence tied together

[seemslikeadream]

IN IRAQ: Suicide car bombings and attacks are some of the tactics used by Iraqi insurgents battling US-led forces in Baghdad and which are being copied by Al-Qaeda terrorists. - AFP


In recent months, dozens of Saudi jihadis are reported to have been killed in Fallujah, to where many Saudi families travelled to pay their last respects to 'martyred' sons.

And the new copy-cat tactics in Riyadh include dragging the bodies of Westerners from the back of cars, assassinating others in a bid to sabotage the vital oil sector, and kidnapping.

In an attack on the Saudi Red Sea city of Yanbu last month, in which six Westerners and a Saudi were killed, terrorists dragged the body of one of the victims into a local school playground, fired into the air and forced students to watch the bloodied corpse attached to their car by its right leg being dragged.


IN SAUDI ARABIA: Violence in the kingdom has gone beyond the taped killing of a US employee (top), the shooting of a British journalist (centre) and Khobar city attack. -- AP, AFP, REUTERS
'Come join your brothers in Fallujah!' they shouted, in reference to the city where four American contractors were similarly slain earlier this year. In a statement by the leader of the Al-Qaeda cell that carried out the Khobar attack at the end of last month, in which 22 people were killed, it was made clear that the offices of Halliburton had been singled out 'because of its role in Iraq'.

During the Iraq war, Saudi Arabia secretly helped the United States by allowing operations from at least three air bases, permitting special forces to stage attacks from Saudi soil and providing cheap fuel.

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[teryang]

1. Iraqi violence has nothing to do with June 30

It won't stop until we leave.

In typical Machiavellian fashion, bushista foreign policy (war) is destabilizing Saudi Arabia.

[Massacure]

2. If anything, it will probably just get worse on June 30.

That is just my opinion.

[Minstrel Boy]

3. If it looks like things are falling apart, then

they must be falling into place for our presumptive Masters of Reality, the neoconservative lords of chaos.

[seemslikeadream]

6. You can't beat the Axis if you get VD

Have you seen this haning in the palace halls of
neoconservative lords?

[moondust]

4. They used to call the ME a powder keg.

Once you light the fuse there's no telling what may happen.

Ever hear of that George?........

[priller]

5. Gosh, I thought Bush said the war in Iraq would cause

democracy and peace to bloom, and bring stability to the region. How ever could he possibly have got it so wrong? Smart guy like him.