Not a full-scale invasion - yet. But certainly part of the preliminary "softening up" phase:
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia, warning that more "black days" loom ahead in a direct challenge to the rulers of the Sunni kingdom.
Friday's attack was the kingdom's deadliest militant assault since a 2004 al-Qaida attack on foreign worker compounds, which sparked a massive Saudi security force crackdown. However, this Islamic State attack in the village of al-Qudeeh in the eastern Qatif region targeted Shiites, whom ultraconservatives in Saudi Arabia regularly denounce as heretics.
The statement on the Islamic State group's al-Bayan radio station, read aloud Friday night and posted Saturday morning to militant websites associated with the [jihad]ists, identified the suicide bomber as a Saudi citizen with the nom de guerre Abu Amer al-Najdi. The station also identified the attack as being carried out by a new Islamic State branch in "Najd Province," referring to the historic region of the central Arabian Peninsula home to the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
The mosque attack killed at least twenty-one people and wounded eighty-one, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
Funny how the Islamic State has forces in the same two arms of the Iranian regional pincers (Syria and Iraq in the north, Yemen in the south) that the mullahs do. It's like both Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Ayatollahs have the same competing strategy of conquest, or their really on the same side. Either way, the Saudis and surrounding "moderate" Gulf sheikdoms and emirates are the targeted enemies caught in the middle. And Israel is where the pincers are clearly designed to close.
This, and his phony war against ISIS, is one more reason for the Saudi coalition to distrust Barack Obama. And, again, who can blame them?
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