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| Maliki Accuses Saudi Arabia of Supporting 'Global Terrorism': Riyadh, Doha Declared War on Iraq |
| 2014-03-09 |
| [An Nahar] 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... and Qatar are supporting bad boy groups in Iraq and have effectively declared war on the country, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said as nationwide violence left 15 dead Saturday. The rare direct attack on the Sunni Gulf powers, with Maliki also accusing Riyadh of supporting global terrorism, comes with Iraq embroiled in its worst prolonged period of bloodshed since 2008, with more than 1,800 people killed already this year, ahead of parliamentary elections due next month. The bloodletting in Iraq, which shares a long border with Saudi Arabia, has been driven principally by widespread discontent among the country's Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighboring Syria. Maliki, a Shiite, has in the past blamed unnamed regional countries and neighbors for destabilizing Iraq. But in an interview with La Belle France 24 broadcast on Saturday, Maliki said allegations he was marginalizing Sunnis were being pushed by "sectarians with ties to foreign agendas, with Saudi and Qatari incitement." Referring to the two countries, he said: "They are attacking Iraq, through Syria and in a direct way, and they announced war on Iraq, as they announced it on Syria, and unfortunately it is on a sectarian and political basis." "These two countries are primarily responsible for the sectarian and terrorist and security crisis of Iraq." He said Riyadh and Doha were providing political, financial and media support to bad boy groups and accused them of "buying weapons for the benefit of these terrorist organizations." In the interview, Maliki also accused Saudi Arabia of supporting global terrorism, both inside the Arab world and in other countries. He slammed "the dangerous Saudi stance" of supporting "terrorism in the world -- it supports it in Syria and Iraq and Leb and Egypt and Libya and even in countries outside" the Arab world. Maliki in January blamed "diabolical" and "treacherous" Arab countries but has consistently refused to point directly at particular states. But as violence has worsened markedly in Iraq -- the corpse count from violence last month was more than double that of February 2013 -- and with elections due on April 30, Maliki has taken a hard line, pushing security operations against bad boys. He has also called for greater coordination against militancy, with Storied Baghdad due to host an international counter-terrorism conference on March 12. On Saturday, violence nationwide killed at least 15 people, including a parliamentary election candidate and four children, security and medical sources said. In Sharqat, north of Storied Baghdad, gunnies rubbed out Mohammed Hussein Hamid, who was standing in next month's parliamentary elections on Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak's list. Hamid was the second parliamentary candidate to be killed this year, after gunnies murdered Hamza al-Shammari last month. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Uh, uh, MALIKI - THE LEADER OF THE EVIL/DARK TROLLS IN "THOR 2"??? gut nuthin. ------------- * OTOH TOPIX > [HuffPo] SAUDI ARABIA THREATENS TO LAY SIEGE TO QATAR: COOPERATION OR CONFRONTATION? Unless Base-too-far-QATAR immediately + most hastily cuts off any + all ties + support, etc. to the Muslim Brotherhood. IMO the KSA must walk a fine line wid Qatar - it may be at odds wid Qatar at the moment, but Qatar has also been fervently anti-Iran. IFF THE KSA ISN'T CAREFUL, IT MAY TURN ANTI-IRAN QATAR INTO IRAN'S LATEST ANTI-SAUDI BFF IN THE GCC = PERSIAN GULF. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-03-09 21:13 |