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| Three Saudi Police Wounded in Shiite Village Attack |
| 2014-02-26 |
| [An Nahar] Unknown gunnies have shot up a cop shoppe in a Shiite village 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... , wounding three coppers, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The attack took place late Sunday in the flashpoint Awamiya village, part of the predominantly Shiite Eastern Province district of Qatif where protests erupted in 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring. Policemen were standing outside the cop shoppe when they came under "heavy gunfire," the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. One of the three maimed men is at death's door, it said. A firefight in Awamiya last week killed two coppers and two Shiite activists wanted by authorities over violence when security forces tried to arrest the two men, the ministry said at the time. In January, the U.S. embassy in Riyadh warned its citizens against travelling to Awamiya after gunnies shot up the car of two German diplomats, who escaped unhurt. Demonstrations in Eastern Province, where most of the kingdom's two million Shiites live, erupted simultaneously with a protest movement in neighboring Bahrain in 2011. They took a violent turn in 2012 and festivities between police and protesters have so far killed 24 people, including at least four coppers, according to activists. Of more than 950 people tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! since 2011 for involvement in the unrest in the province, 217 are still being held |
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