Iraqi Shiite group claims shelling Saudi border

[Vikrant]

CAIRO -- An Iraqi Shiite group has claimed responsibility for firing six mortar shells at a region of Saudi Arabia bordering Iraq and Kuwait.

Wathiq al-Batat, the leader of the so-called Mukhtar Army, said the shelling was in retaliation for religious decrees in Saudi Arabia that insult Shiites and encourage killing them.

Al-Batat told Beirut-based Iraqi satellite news channel al-Sumaria on Thursday that the mortars should be considered "a warning." He also said: "If they continue their provocations, we will carry out armed operations inside Saudi territories."

Saudi border guard spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghamidi told the Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday that six mortar rounds hit an uninhibited area in Hafar al-Batin in the east, causing no damage.

Read more here: CAIRO: Iraqi Shiite group claims shelling Saudi border - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

 

[Hossfly]

CAIRO -- An Iraqi Shiite group has claimed responsibility for firing six mortar shells at a region of Saudi Arabia bordering Iraq and Kuwait.

Wathiq al-Batat, the leader of the so-called Mukhtar Army, said the shelling was in retaliation for religious decrees in Saudi Arabia that insult Shiites and encourage killing them.

Al-Batat told Beirut-based Iraqi satellite news channel al-Sumaria on Thursday that the mortars should be considered "a warning." He also said: "If they continue their provocations, we will carry out armed operations inside Saudi territories."

Saudi border guard spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghamidi told the Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday that six mortar rounds hit an uninhibited area in Hafar al-Batin in the east, causing no damage.

Read more here: CAIRO: Iraqi Shiite group claims shelling Saudi border - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

Maybe the fit is about to hit the Shan.

 

[irosie91]

CAIRO -- An Iraqi Shiite group has claimed responsibility for firing six mortar shells at a region of Saudi Arabia bordering Iraq and Kuwait.

Wathiq al-Batat, the leader of the so-called Mukhtar Army, said the shelling was in retaliation for religious decrees in Saudi Arabia that insult Shiites and encourage killing them.

Al-Batat told Beirut-based Iraqi satellite news channel al-Sumaria on Thursday that the mortars should be considered "a warning." He also said: "If they continue their provocations, we will carry out armed operations inside Saudi territories."

Saudi border guard spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghamidi told the Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday that six mortar rounds hit an uninhibited area in Hafar al-Batin in the east, causing no damage.

Read more here: CAIRO: Iraqi Shiite group claims shelling Saudi border - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

gee there are all kinds of indications that the shiite/sunni thing is HEATING
UP. ------uhm-----sorry for lack of link------but I read an article recently describing
new laws in IRAQ------which outlaw signs in public places in FARSI.
Long ago----thru an acquaintance who was a SHIITE FROM INDIA----I did
learn that shiites consider Farsi something like a "second holy language"----
ie second to arabic. ------the Iraqi sunnis have decided "NO FARSI"
allowed in Iraq.----------SHEEEEESH!!!!!! There are shiites concentrated on the
Saudi/Yemeni border too.

 

[Vikrant]

^ Violence between Shias and Sunnis is definitely heating up.

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