Saudi instability
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Topic: Saudi instability
Posted By: Tim the plumber
Subject: Saudi instability
Date Posted: 16 March 2016 at 11:50am
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21694960-kingdoms-shias-are-angry-tension-and-revolt-saudi-arabias-eastern-province Perhaps Saudi will be next.... |
AWAMIYA, a town of some 30,000 in Saudi Arabia�s Shia-dominated Eastern
Province, had been simmering ever since its cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, called
on his followers to join the Arab spring in 2011. When the security
forces responded that year with live ammunition, and incarcerated
hundreds of youths, it only fired him up him more.