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Fractures in Saudi ruling family being felt in military
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The Saudi ruling family is desperately trying to keep the lid on tension within the armed forces. The tensions stem from internal struggles within the royal family. Various princes have control over different parts of the military and security forces and they have little reason for real cooperation.
Here’s some scenarios being discussed within the U.S. intelligence community:
· Saudi Interior Ministry forces accidentally kill a leading Saudi cleric aligned with Al Qaida. Saudi clerics riot and the religious police retaliate.
Killing clerics does get some people’s knickers in a knot, e.g., Yassin booming.

· Saudi religious police attack a liberal Saudi prince or his Arab expatriate employee. Crown Prince Abdullah is forced to order the National Guard to crack down on the police.

· A Shi’ite group, sponsored by Iran, attacks the Saudi oil fields in the Eastern Province.
Or maybe .com’s Army of Contractors pays a little visit, heh heh.
Saudi troops would crack down on the Shi’ite minority and a rebellion would begin.
Nobody knows for sure. But many in the intelligence community say the Saudi powder keg is ready and the only thing missing is some fool with a match.
And Allah knows that there are millions of fools runing hither and thither around the Middle East, and most of them carry matches or Bics.
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-04-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=29996