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(Saudi) Arabian nights in Syria
[Ynet] Analysis: The past few days have seen the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia express its desire to send ground forces into Syria at the head of a coalition including Turkey and the UAE. But why now? Geopolitical interests, religion, and the turning tide of the war in favor of the Assad regime may hold some of the answers.A convoy of over a hundred Humvees was recently captured on video near the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n town of Qurayat, about 19 miles away from the al-Haditha border crossing with the Kingdom of Jordan. Al-Haditha, which is the Saudi Kingdom's largest land border crossing, was previously used as the primary crossing point for goods transiting through Saudi Arabia to the rest of the Gulf countries from the north, as well as people making the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, coming from as far away as Posted by: trailing wife 2016-02-15 |
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