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| Masked men attack Saudi intelligence compound with firebombs |
| 2016-01-12 |
| [Al Ahram] Masked men threw Molotov cocktails at an intelligence service compound in the city of Qatif in eastern 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... , activists said on Monday, in an apparent reprisal for the execution of a prominent Shia Muslim holy man earlier this month. A Saudi Interior Ministry front man said "there was a failed terrorist attempt to burn the building with Molotov cocktails" and that one of the assailants was captured. Video footage posted on social media and dated Jan. 9 showed several masked young men moving under cover of darkness and lobbing Molotov cocktails over the protective outer wall of a building compound. Most of the Molotov cocktails were seen exploding on the ground inside, setting a nearby tree on fire. The authenticity of the footage could not immediately be confirmed. It was not initially clear who was behind the attack. But the recording contained a footnote indicating that it was carried out by Shia youth seeking to avenge the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a vocal critic of the kingdom's Sunni Muslim monarchy. |
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