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Arabia
Bomb blast kills senior Saudi officer in Qatif region
2017-06-13
[Iran Press TV] A senior Saudi police official has been killed and two other coppers maimed in an kaboom that targeted their patrolling vehicle in 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...
’s Shia-dominated Eastern Province, the Interior Ministry says.

According to a statement released by Saudi Interior Ministry, a bomb, believed to be an improvised bomb, exploded beside a police patrol car as it was inspecting the old quarter of Awamiyah Village, known as al-Mosara, at 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday.

The kaboom, which occurred in the restive Qatif region, killed "Major Tariq bin Abdullatif al-A'laqi" and inflicted injuries on two coppers "whose health conditions are stable," further said the ministry, which described the blast as a "terrorist incident."

No individual or group has yet grabbed credit for the attack.

On May 16, a Saudi soldier was also killed and five others were maimed when gunnies fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their patrol car in Awamiyah.

Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
ISIS turbans have killed more than 40 Shia Moslems since the terror group began a campaign of bombings and shootings in Eastern Province in 2014.

Furthermore, the Shia-populated Eastern Province, particularly the Qatif region, has been the scene of peaceful demonstrations since February 2011. Protesters, complaining of marginalization in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, have been demanding reforms, freedom of expression, the release of political prisoners, and an end to economic and religious discrimination against the oil-rich region.
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