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Protest Turns Deadly In Qatif As Saudis Use Live Ammo On Protesting Shi’ites
Remember Qatif – the “weakest” Saudi authoritarian link, whose daily protests, many of them violent, threatened to topple the government last spring when soaring global food inflation set the MENA region on fire and led to the overthrow of numerous regimes in the Mediterranean rim? It’s back, only this time not based on food price concerns, but inflamed religious tensions, arising from the arrest, and shooting, of a senior religious opposition figure, Shia cleric Ayatollah Al-Neme. As of minutes ago, Redha Al-boori reports on Twitter, that there have been at least two casuualties as a result of confrontation between Saudi forces using live ammo and protesting Shiites.
The Shia Post reports
“Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shot injured and arrested Shia cleric Ayatollah Al-Nemer on Saturday 08 July 2012, the Shia Post reported.
According to received picture, injuries from which it can be assumed that the arrest was violent. Two weeks ago in his Friday sermon Shaikh Al-Nemer criticised Arab dictators in Saudi, Bahrain. He is well known for publicly criticising dictators. After the shot injures and arrest of Ayatullah Shaikh Al-Nemer, hundreds of Saudis Shiite Muslims took streets in Awamiah and Qatif for his release and protested against the KSA for the brutal attack on Shiite Cleric.” The result: protests that have covered the entire city, and reports via Twitter of Saudi forces using live ammo to disperse those protesting.
Videos from Qatif posted moments ago:
And for those who prefer more ‘credible’ sources of reporting, here is Reuters.
6 Comments on "Protest Turns Deadly In Qatif As Saudis Use Live Ammo On Protesting Shi’ites"
DC on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 12:54 am
Unlike the fabricated stories by the US propaganda networks about how Syria is allegedly shooting there own people, this is one story I dont doubt for a second.
BillT on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 1:04 am
The beginning of the end of Saudi Arabia. It will soon, after an ocean of blood, be known as just Arabia again, and about time! One by one, the dictatorships put in place by the Empire are falling.
Newfie on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 3:23 am
Shi’ites are a small minority in Arabia. They are considered infidels by the majority Sunni. Even if entire towns erupt in riots it probably won’t have any impact. If however they start blowing up oil pipelines all bets are off. That could be how the world ends. Fifteen percent of the worlds oil comes from Eastern Arabia.
BillT on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 4:00 am
Shiites are also the main religion in Iran…the power in Iraq, and are in most of the other Middle East countries from Turkey and Pakistan, to equatorial Africa. See Maps…
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=shiite+countries+map
Then there are those scattered through 24 countries including about 300,000 in the Us out of maybe 200,000,000 in the world.
Newfie on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 1:25 pm
The House of Saud will not be overthrown until the oil is gone and the royal family are no longer needed. Saudi oil is the basis of the world economy and by extension the basis of the American Empire. Any disruption in the flow of Saudi oil would result in a global economic depression resulting in widespread social anarchy as governments disintegrated. The Americans will do anything to maintain the flow of Saudi oil. They will invade Arabia if necessary. The Carter Doctrine still holds.
BillT on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 1:51 pm
Really Newfie? And you know this for a fact? Perhaps Iran will make that problem go away someday. The Saudis export about 7-8 million barrels per day. Russia exports about 5-6 million barrels per day. If the price of oil drops too far, there will be bloody riots in the streets of Arabia. If they export more oil to get money for the masses, then the masses will lose their A/C and fuel for their cars and there will be another riot in the streets.
The Saud family is between a rock and a hard place. The leader is sickly and in his late 80s. All of the ‘2nd in lines’ have died one by one. When the old guy goes, there will be interior fighting that will tear Arabia apart. Wait and see.