Saudi Arabia Sends Troops into Bahrain to Stop Shi'ite Protests

Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain on Monday to help put down weeks of protests by the Shi'ite Muslim majority, a move opponents of the Sunni ruling family on the island called a declaration of war.
Analysts saw the troop movement as a mark of concern in Saudi Arabia that political concessions by Bahrain's monarchy could embolden the Saudi kingdom's own Shi'ite minority. Ahmadinejad of Iran will be pissed. What's Obama going to do? About 1,000 Saudi soldiers entered Bahrain to protect government facilities, a Saudi official source said, a day after mainly Shi'ite protesters overran police and blocked roads. They are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) force that would guard the government installations," the source said, referring to the six-member bloc that coordinates military and economic policy in the world's top oil exporting region. Give some assistance to King Hamad. Witnesses said the 25-km (16-mile) causeway between the two countries was closed and tanks were rolling across to Bahrain, a key U.S. ally and home of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Analysts and diplomats say the largest contingent in any GCC force would come from Saudi Arabia, which is already worried an uprising by Bahrain's Shi'ites may inspire restive Shi'ites in its own Eastern Province, the center of the oil industry. Bahraini opposition groups including the largest Shi'ite party Wefaq said the move was an attack on defenseless citizens. We consider the entry of any soldier or military machinery into the Kingdom of Bahrain's air, sea or land territories a blatant occupation. This real threat about the entry of Saudi and other Gulf forces into Bahrain to confront the defenseless Bahraini people puts the Bahraini people in real danger and threatens them with an undeclared war by armed troops. Middle East is snapping.

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[AlYassou3Rabbi]

Ahmadina-nut-job

Whats that little monkey up to now?

What the US needs is old Ronnie Reagan back. He knew how to deal with Iran and Libya. What we got here is a failure to communicate... properly. Ronnie did his talking with B52s

[kretincooper]

@AlYassou3Rabbi Those Jihad's have no fear of Obama, it's like they're close friends.

[zuberiaa]

ha ha you got it all wrong, but that holy word keep coming from your mouth, I have no sympathy with jehad or those who are involved with it, but you could have done this presentation with more decency than Bahrain or Saudi are dealing with their people.

[kretincooper]

@zuberiaa You're a good man not to agree with the Jihad. The protesters in North Africa and the Middle East are out of hand. A few are good, more are bad.

[zuberiaa]

why do you state your name after each sentence,

[kretincooper]

@zuberiaa Why do you kiss the Ass of Jihad?

[MsLumos85]

@alkobra1000 ههههههههههههههههههه قاعد يتكلم عن المظاهرات اللي في في الشرق الاوسط و متظايق ان البترول ارتفع سعره 

[Mr3arbO]

hhahahah iran = shiah

[alkobra1000]

ذا وشو يقول شكله فيه فتح في راسه هيه انت وشو تقول كلام انتا ايش قول نفر مافي معلوم بس معلوم سعوديا

[lordfahd]

no its we fuck

[athleteb]

Its called 'WEFAQ' NOT 'WEFUCK'.

[mishaal3000]

lol wtf is that 

[d3dsh]

@MrHossain110 rounding? did you study math? this is percentage MR, ok ok don't know how to explain this to you because its seems to me that you taking all your knowledge from Wikipedia ,lets talk about if is there an election and the electorate votes for "y" 66% and for "x" 70% , I'm asking you now: who is going to win?

and again , I'm not going to argue with you if your information based on Wikipedia

thank you and good bye

[MrHossain110]

@d3dsh it is called rounding.Because the ones place is six,it is rounded of to the nearest tens place which is 70.And also Bahrain used to be under Iranian rule.A lot of Bahrainese still have ties to Iranians, who are shias. Go to wikipedia again and look for the source yourself.

[d3dsh]

@MrHossain110 what are you talking about? how is 66% approximately 70% ?

and if you taking your information from Wikipedia you have to be careful.

it is a lie , a big one. they want people to believe that the shia is a majority.

tow kinds of people who believe this lie:

1- the shia themself.

2- a naive, how doesn't know anything about Bahrain.

[persiangulfonly]

shias are 80 percent of bahrain get the facts straight people