Saudi’s send troops to Bahrain..Shi’ites call it “war”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-bahrain-protests-forces-idUSLDE72D0KH20110315
Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain on Monday to help calm weeks of protests by the Shi’ite Muslim majority, a move opponents of the Sunni ruling family on the island called a declaration of war.
Analysts saw the troop movement into Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, as a mark of concern in Saudi Arabia that concessions by the country’s monarchy could inspire the conservative Sunni-ruled kingdom’s own Shi’ite minority.
About 1,000 Saudi soldiers entered Bahrain to protect government facilities, a Saudi official source said, a day after mainly Shi’ite protesters overran police and blocked roads.
“They are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) force that would guard the government installations,” the source said, referring to the six-member bloc that coordinates military and economic policy in the world’s top oil-exporting region.
Bahrain said on Monday it had asked the Gulf troops for support in line with a GCC defense pact. The United Arab Emirates has said it would also send 500 police to Bahrain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12729786
Troops from a number of Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have arrived in Bahrain at the request of the kingdom, officials say.
It comes a day after the worst violence since seven anti-government protesters were killed in clashes with security forces last month.
Dozens of people were injured on Sunday as protesters pushed back police and barricaded roads.
Bahrain’s opposition said the foreign forces amounted to an occupation.
But the kingdom’s authorities urged the population to “co-operate fully and to welcome” the troops, the AFP news agency reports.
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this is a significant escalation of the protests and it goes back to what we spoke of last week..shia v sunni..sunni leaders sending in help for the sunni king against shia protesters and of course iran being shia is right behind the protesters..what a strange situation we have here..
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Saudi & UAE are making a BIG mistake for sending troops my brothers….This only makes the situation worse.
i agree with that..can you see the western elites laughing their heads off?..arab v arab
i just bought gold
$1400 ish?
Yeah!.. also bought a couple of months ago.. wish i hopped on the silver wagon earlier!
when i first entered markets gold was 350 and silver 9..now i wish i was on that!
Bahrain is a relatively liberal state, too. They don’t have all the Wahhabist bullshit imposed on their citizens, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Saudi invasion changed some of that.
its an elites paradise to imagine sunni v shia all over the middle east