Saudi Arabia mobilises thousands of troops to quell growing revolt Read more: http://www.belfasttel

[wildbilln864]

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"Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week's "day of rage" by what is now called the "Hunayn Revolution".

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/saudi-arabia-mobilises-thousands-of-troops-to-quell-growing-revolt-15104528.html#ixzz1FrFMb6ZL"


read more here...

[Poboy]

1. March 11th. Be there or be square.

[Raksha]

8. Don't you mean "Be in the square or be square"?

And just for the record, I thought of it first! :)

[drm604]

2. Interesting times. n/t

[Countdown_3_2_1]

3. Hmmm. I'm betting the President backs the King on this

Merely for the stability of oil and to keep existing oil treaties alive.

revolutions tend to negate existing treaties.

[wildbilln864]

7. yep! nt

[Thunderstruck]

4. Think oil and gas prices are high now? Let SA light up and see what happens.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. This is exactly the kind of thing the SPR was created for.

Open the floodgates, Obama.

[Renew Deal]

9. What do you do when the 700 million barrels are gone?

19 million barrels a day will be gone in a little more than a month.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Boy I just hear those human rights scoldings now coming out...

of Washington.