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Saudi Officials Think ISIS Fighters May Hit Them Next


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AP Photo/militant social media account via AP video

This image made from undated video posted during the weekend of June 28, 2014 on a social media account frequently used for communications by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Omar al-Shishani standing next to the group's spokesman among a group of fighters as they declare the elimination of the border between Iraq and Syria.


Saudi Arabia is calling on its allies, Egypt and Pakistan, to provide military assistance in keeping its border closed to militants that have already taken over vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, The London Times reports.


"The kingdom is calling in favors from Egypt and Pakistan," an adviser to the Saudi government told The Times. "No one is certain what ISIS has planned, but it’s clear a group like this will target Mecca if it can. We expect them to run out of steam, but no one is taking any chances."

The formerly al Qaeda-aligned group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), has taken over a number of key cities in Iraq in recent months, after previously carving out territory in Syria.

The Saudi government has reason to worry. It has been covertly supplying cash and weapons, along with Qatar, to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "ISIS has been a Saudi project," a senior Qatari official told Steve Clemons of The Atlantic.

The reason for Saudi Arabia's support of rebel groups is in opposition to Iran, which backs al-Assad. But now it appears — much like U.S. support in the 1980s for mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan — that decision may come back to bite them.

A large-scale ISIS incursion into Saudi Arabia seems unlikely, but the threat of battle-hardened fighters making their way into the kingdom to attack from inside is very real. In some cases they already have, as the Saudi Interior Ministry reported in May it had discovered an ISIS cell of 62 members inside the country, most of them Saudis, according to Al Monitor.

Saudi Arabia has been fighting terror groups for many years, and even had a bloody siege in 1979 between government forces and militants inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam.

In the standoff, the Mosque's minarets were destroyed, while other parts were peppered with grenade shrapnel and bullets in fighting that lasted two weeks, according to the book "Inside the Kingdom" by Robert Lacey.

"No one has taken any initiative to root these guys out," Theodore Karasik, of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai, told the Times. "Once they have consolidated, there is a danger they will try to go back into the kingdom."



Read more: Saudi Arabian Officials Are Worried About ISIS - Business Insider
 
When they supported ISIS were they dumb to not realize what they are realizing now? didn't they learn from US and Pakistan ....Now handle your mess kingdom ...
 
Is it a call to know how the trillion $ equipment lying around will work or just need cannon fodder to take the brunt of suicide attacks on check posts that their country supported and paid for in other countries? Not sure if I can take the source seriously. Article seems a bit far fetched.
 
impossible. Iraq didn't have a well trained and equipped army to defend itself. Infact alot of ex Saddam army men joined the ISIS.

As for saudi they can get rid of ISIS in no time at all due to weaponry they have been purchasing over the decades. Plus they have a trained army. so the saudis won't just roll over.

ISIS is a total nonsense a rouge army with limited capabilities.
 
When they supported ISIS were they dumb to not realize what they are realizing now? didn't they learn from US and Pakistan ....Now handle your mess kingdom ...
Is it a call to know how the trillion $ equipment lying around will work or just need cannon fodder to take the brunt of suicide attacks on check posts that their country supported and paid for in other countries? Not sure if I can take the source seriously. Article seems a bit far fetched.


That article was first published by the Times. The news is false. Saudi Arabia has not issued any statement in that regard. We have a very capable army that can deal with any threat and we are not in need of anyone.
 
When they supported ISIS were they dumb to not realize what they are realizing now? didn't they learn from US and Pakistan ....Now handle your mess kingdom ...

there is another assumption-
Saudis never supported ISIS- work on that-

That article was first published by the Times. The news is false. Saudi Arabia has not issued any statement in that regard. We have a very capable army that can deal with any threat and we are not in need of anyone.

not expecting anything less- :tup:-
 
there is another assumption-
they never supported ISIS- work on that-



not expecting anything less- :tup:-

yar there are so many articles and discussions on the issue which points at Saudi funding for ISIS ...we know that kingdom has been notorious in this regard....involvement in syria is not hidden ...and we know from where the support for LeJ etc comes
 
They are not JUST BUNCH OF APES MOVING THIS WAY TO THAT WAY.

They have done it in past "battling Iran Qatar etc.. and lots of men have done some fire fights in Afghanistan Pak border

impossible. Iraq didn't have a well trained and equipped army to defend itself. Infact alot of ex Saddam army men joined the ISIS.

As for saudi they can get rid of ISIS in no time at all due to weaponry they have been purchasing over the decades. Plus they have a trained army. so the saudis won't just roll over.

ISIS is a total nonsense a rouge army with limited capabilities.
 
Saudi Arabia has deployed 30k troops on its border with Iraq months ago. RSAF has a base full of birds over there as well. I don't know what was the intention of the Times Newspaper and its unknown reporter publishing such false news.
 
Come on guys, KSA is strong enough to crush them and steam roll them. Plus the dude in the photo is dead.
 
Saudi Arabia has deployed 30k troops on its border with Iraq months ago. RSAF has a base full of birds over there as well. I don't know what was the intention of the Times Newspaper and its unknown reporter publishing such false news.

Yes KSA had been preparing for months, when ISIS did not even enter Iraq, I don't think the news of Pakistani help is true at all, Pakistan has already told the world it is engaged in WOT and some of its troops are serving in UN.
 
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