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Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric

"Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all "

By BEN HUBBARDJAN. 2, 2016


Smoke billowed from the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday after Iranian protesters entered the building.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-executes-47-sheikh-nimr-shiite-cleric.html

.. putting the relatively anti-democratic and repressive nature of the Saudi system aside the worst part of
that as noted in the article was the bunching of Sheikh Nimr with the violent jihadists .. that is a stretch ..

.. to put the demo and executions in context before seeing that the 'some 157' executed in 2015 was
the highest in two decades, i wondered how the unrest today in Saudi Arabia compared to other years

List of militant incidents in Saudi Arabia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_militant_incidents_in_Saudi_Arabia#1960s

wow .. have a look at 2004-5-6 .. after seeing that i read in the NYT above

"Most of those executed on Saturday had been convicted in connection with deadly attacks by Al Qaeda in the kingdom about a decade ago."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-executes-47-sheikh-nimr-shiite-cleric.html

which fits right into the Wiki bad years at 2005 .. the Saudis had a hell of a lot more domestic unrest during GWB's presidency ..

yup, sure looks the new guy King Salman

"King Salman, were a sharp increase from the 90 people put to death in 2014. Saudi officials have said that the increase
reflects a backlog of death sentences that had built up in the final years of the previous monarch, King Abdullah"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-executes-47-sheikh-nimr-shiite-cleric.html

has decided to take a harder line than King Abdullah did .. the article said the executions were not in public
as normal in the past so that's one positive .. as the election of women in local election last year was, too ..

Salafists attacking Salafists is another interesting aspect .. why? .. ok, here's one opinion

Only Saudi Arabia can defeat Isis
Nawaf Obaid

I have often heard claims that my country created Isis. On the contrary – we are leading the fight against it

[...]

However, a closer look at Isis reveals that it is engaged in an entrenched theological war with the
Saudi religious establishment to determine who justifiably espouses the purest tenets of Sunni Islam.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/22/saudi-arabia-isis-us-terrorists-coalition

.. and from Politico sentiments we've seen many times before ..

The Saudi Wahhabis are the real foe
We must take our fight to the preachers and financiers of terror.
ByNassim Nicholas Taleb 11/16/15, 6:01 PM CET
Updated 11/22/15, 7:47 AM CET
http://www.politico.eu/article/the-saudi-wahhabis-are-the-real-foe-islamic-terrorists-salafi-violence/

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You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia Alsitair Crooke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html

posted 2014 .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106467656 .. and in my
reply to that one .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106479471 ..
and in 2015 .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118575475