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2011-12-27 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2011-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Oh yeah, definitely BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR coming along.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-12-27 00:53|| 2011-12-27 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Qatif is just up the coast from Qatar, about halfway to Kuwait. It is the most Shiite part of SA, and with Iranian instigation they were cutting up rough until the Saud cracked down on them, killing a dozen.

However, the house of Thani, that rules Qatar, is also Sunni, so they have no great impulse to help out Shiites.

This leads me to suspect that this recording is some Iranian audio editing, because they want to claim both Qatar and Saudi Arabia for themselves.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-27 09:01|| 2011-12-27 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I am starting to see a pattern here. Iran has been buggered up so they have turned to old methodology (planning and control). Look at their activities in the Persian (Arab) gulf (sea). Libya asking for help. More influence in Arab countries. The strait of Hormuz and Canal look like a throttle point. They have even said that should they be stopped oil exports they would act to shut all oil shipments in the gulf.

"By the pricking of my thumb something wicked this way comes"

Posted by Dale 2011-12-27 12:37|| 2011-12-27 12:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The pattern is scarcely a new one.

Posted by lotp 2011-12-27 14:46|| 2011-12-27 14:46|| Front Page Top

#5 NEWSMAX > {Arnaud de Borchgrave] WEALTHY QATAR HOLDS KEY TO STABILIZING AFGHANISTAN.

IMO Iran is sensing many or most of the US = US-ALLIED? strategy for containing or confronting Iran militarily in the PG - its prob is determin proper levels + mix of resources [defensive] to defeat it.

FEAR NOT, MOUD, IFF YOU SURVIVE THE INITIAL WESTERN ONSLAUGHT VLAD = RUSSIA WILL SAVE YOU FROM FINAL DEFEAT WID HIS MILITARY TECHNICIANS.

As per below described ....

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [Russia Today] US FEARS RESURGENT GERMANY, RUSSIA - RUSSIA TODAY.

THE TECHNICIANS ARE COMING, THE TECHNICIANS ARE COMING!

Iff like FIRST KOREAN WAR, VIETNAM WAR, + COLD WAR, any US-led strike upon Russian-manned "defensive" military points is an act of aggression agz Mama Russia + Iran.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-12-27 21:21|| 2011-12-27 21:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, this is not new but joint efforts are a concern. China wants resources. Russia wants technicians in place. So Iran is building an Arab unity. I think at this time Isreal must feal tremendous pressure. That conflict is inevitable.
I hear so little about Jordan. Perhaps they haven't joined the Iranians love fest. The pied pipers of doom.

Posted by Dale 2011-12-27 21:56|| 2011-12-27 21:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I hear so little about Jordan

Jordan is small, poor, and trying hard to keep their Palestinians from revolting, Dale. They can't afford to be newsworthy.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-27 23:55|| 2011-12-27 23:55|| Front Page Top

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