THE Saudi Arabia Thread pt 3 (merged)

Jotapay · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:05 am

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

rangerone314 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:16 am

Is there some email address in Saudi Arabia where we can send the reply to the Saudi request for payments for drops in oil revenues?

I'd like to take a photo of my hand with middle finger extended and send it there.

Chuckmak · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:10 am

Jotapay wrote:

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

^^^ bringing back the Geto Boys! I can get w/ that! :-D

Sixstrings · **Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:00 am **Posts:** 1699

Just FYI in case a mod wants to merge, I posted this a week ago I think in the peak oil forum.

Dreamtwister · **Joined:** Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:00 am **Posts:** 2567

They can go pound sand. If they are so worried about finances, maybe they should stop buying those $50,000 diamond and ruby-encrusted penis stretchers.

Outcast_Searcher · **Joined:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:26 pm **Posts:** 122

Sixstrings wrote:

Just FYI in case a mod wants to merge, I posted this a week ago I think in the peak oil forum.

Sorry Six. Whenever I try a forum search, I get "module not found" which I mentioned early on, perhaps in my initial post.

When I tried a general search on "Saudis Seek Payments" I didn't get any fora hits that matched this article.

eXpat · **Joined:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 1677

Saudis launches offensive against Yemen rebels

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SAN'A, Yemen – Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion, Arab diplomats and the rebels said.

The Saudis — owners of a sophisticated air force they rarely use — have been increasingly worried that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill over to their country, the world's largest oil exporter. The offensive came two days after the killing of a Saudi soldier, blamed on the rebels.

Yemen denied any military action by Saudi Arabia inside its borders. But Yemen's president is a key ally of the Saudis, making it highly unlikely the kingdom would have launched the offensive without tacit Yemeni agreement.

A U.S. government official said the Yemenis were not involved militarily in the fighting. The official spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The offensive immediately raised concerns of another proxy war in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. Shiite Iran is believed to favor the rebels in Yemen while Saudi Arabia, which is Sunni, is Iran's fiercest regional rival.

The same dynamic has played out in various forms in Lebanon, where Iran supports the Shiite militant Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia favors a U.S.-backed faction, and in Iraq, where Saudi Arabia and Iran have thrown support to conflicting sides in the Sunni-Shiite struggle.

A top Saudi government adviser confirmed "a large scale" military operation underway on the Saudi-Yemeni border with further reinforcements sent to the rugged, mountainous area.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen_saudi
If some pissed Yemenis counteract sabotaging refineries in Saudi Arabia things are gonna get hot.
And this:

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"Saudi jets dropped bombs on a crowded areas including a local market in the northern province of Saada," Hawthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Salam told The Associated Press. "They claim they are targeting al-Hawthis, but regrettably they are killing civilians like the government does."

He said the attacks were followed by hundreds of artillery shells from the border.

"So far, three killed have been pulled out of the rubble, including a woman and a child who perished when their houses were bombed and burned down," said Abdel-Salam.

is definitely going to make people upset...

eXpat · **Joined:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 1677

Just to spice things up
Yemeni Rebels Say Capture Saudi Soldiers: Report

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Shi'ite rebels have captured an unspecified number of Saudi soldiers, a rebel spokesman told Al Jazeera television on Friday, following clashes near the border between the two countries.

"We will carry out interviews with them (for the media) ... they will be treated with respect," Mohammed Abdel-Salam told Al Jazeera television by telephone..

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/06/world/international-us-saudi-yemen-soldiers.html

Maddog78 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:00 am **Posts:** 1081

Interesting.
I worked in Yemen from 2003-2005 and there were minor skirmishes happening in that area of Yemen all through that time but it appears to be escalating significantly.

eXpat · **Joined:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 1677

Saudi Arabian fighter jets resume pounding Shia rebels' positions in Yemen

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SANA'A (Yemen): Saudi air force jets resumed shelling positions of Shia rebels on the country's southwestern border with Yemen for the third day
on Friday, the rebel group said in an e-mailed statement.

It said the jets hit areas in the al-Malahid district of the Saada province, as well as villages on the border.

The group said airstrikes began at 10.00 a.m. (0700 GMT) and are "still ongoing", without giving further details.

Saudi Arabia said Friday that its military operation against rebels who infiltrated into its territory will continue until the rebels are ejected from Saudi soil.

"The operations will continue until all locations within Saudi territories have been completely and fully cleared of any hostile element," an official said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.

It said the move was taken after "infiltrators" killed a Saudi soldier and injured 11 others with sniper fire and burnt six Saudi border guard cars in cross-border attacks Tuesday.

The statement said Saudi air force carried out "concentrated airstrikes" on positions of the rebels at al-Dokhan mountain, as well as at other targets "within the perimeter of the operations inside the Saudi territories".

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Saudi-Arabian-fighter-jets-resume-pounding-Shia-rebels-positions-in-Yemen/articleshow/5205059.cms

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