Suicide bomber attacks Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia - Breaking News

[Bratva]

When you have no knowledge about something, you better not talk about it.

I have always said that civilians have been killed by both sides in Syria, and that is as sad as killing of this kid, I don't 'cheer' for anyone, I just prefer Syrian gov to those it's fighting against.

I remember,long ago, we had a similar debate about Saddam role in keeping Iraq entactand I was of the opinion Saddam was necessary evil and you differed on how he killed minorities in large numbers and was better gone off.

How times have changed and now you understand why sometimes keeping necessary evil entact is of paramount importance.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

ISIS confirmed they were behind this bombing and announced the establishment of "Wilayat Al Najd" inside Saudi Arabia. Where are the Iranians, Iraqis, Hezbo fans and Russian conspiracy nutjobbers who think Saudi Arabia is backing ISIS?

Anyway, what do you expect when the whole region is boiling and becoming vulnerable?

Saudi Arabia needs to be cautious for two reason:

IS has a strategic to turn the population go paranoid such as repetitive bombings and social media fear propaganda etc to create unrest so they could infiltrate inside the mainland.

This will be an opportunity for Iran to pump billion dollars worth of arms and militias into Shia Eastern Province to create MORE tensions.

Surrounded by Iraq in the North and Yemen in the South. This is worrisome.

I finished shouting.

Well, they have claimed responsibility for the attack but let us not forget that many groups in the past have claimed responsibility for attacks that they did not commit. On the other hand it looks likely that they could be behind given the content posted by them on the internet.

ISIS already announced various Wilayat in Arabia and other areas of the Arab world so this is nothing new nor does it mean anything.

ISIS is obviously not backed by the Saudi Arabian regime nor even private individuals outside of a tiny, tiny minority. ISIS income comes solely from oil that they sell in the region (ALSO to the Al-Assad regime), extortion (all businesses in ISIS held areas and areas under their influence have to pay a kind of tax, for instance if you are a auto mechanic and own a firm you have to pay a percentage to them otherwise you risk getting killed or have family members abducted), abduction of Westerners (journalists, aid workers etc. mainly), selling of precious ancient artifacts (Semitic and Roman) to black markets in the ME that are sold to rich Westerners and to the GCC, bank robberies etc. Those are their main sources of income. I have relatives in Iraq and they told me about this when Al-Qaeda in Iraq was controlling much of Western Baghdad and many majority Sunni Arab provinces.

This is the second such attack in the history of the modern state of KSA (83 years). 2 attacks in 6 months time is much less than I personally expected and if we are to believe Farsi and anti-KSA/Arab users here KSA is apparently FULL of people wanting to blow themselves up among people. Of course this is bogus and pure nonsense as the reality also shows.

No, as this is not the first time KSA has experienced terrorism. No country in the ME is a stranger to terror so all regimes and populations know it. Outside of the small GCC states and Oman. Don't recall terror there. Serious that is. Everyone else, yes.

Saudi Arabia has a very powerful intelligence service and the state has a powerful grip on the country. For good and bad. Much like Iran.

Shia's have no intention to create any unrest. They live much better than any other Shia's on the planet outside of Kuwait. They live in a very rich state with security etc. and a great deal of autonomy. They have their own scholars, schools, they are allowed to celebrate all their religious festivals in public in their regions, towns and villages, they have many good jobs for Aramco and other famous Saudi Arabian firms, many Saudi Shia are very rich people etc.

You must understand that in KSA much like other nearby Arab countries people from tribe x or clan y have both Sunni and Shia members and for many people in the Arab world their family/clan/tribe takes precedence over anything else so if their tribe member is attacked they see it as an attack on them. That's why mixed Sunni/Shia tribes in KSA live peacefully largely just like in Iraq.

Iran cannot do that. Not even in tiny Bahrain as seen for the past 4 years so this is very much unlikely.

Not really as the Houthi's are no threat and the border with Iraq is mostly inhabited by Shia Arabs and the main cities near the border are all majority Shia Arab (Basra, Karbala, Najaf, Nasiriyah, Samawah etc). The only exception is Western Anbar but it is sparsely populated and only 2 major cities lie there. Ar Rutbah and An Nukhayb. Only Ar Rutbah is under ISIS control. Besides that area of Iraq is excellent for hunting and it has many wetlands. Al-Anbar is a huge province too. Over half the size of England but only about 2-2.5 million people live there. It was always an area famous for not "being under control". It was mostly lawless, lol. The Dulaim tribe was also known for their rebellious nature too. Even the Ameircans were never able to fully control Anbar and more soldiers died there than elsewhere.

 

[Shapur Zol Aktaf]

This phenomena won't be solved until Iran/West grow up and stop trying to assert their hegemony in the region. Iran/West must accept the fact that Sunni's are majority in ME and have a right to their self determination. Otherwise if they are continued to be marganilzied and attacked many will join ISIS and the region will get even worse. Until the West, Israel and Iran don't understand that, then this will get worse and destablize the whole region. Iranians and West are playing with the lives of many people if they reject their right to self determination. Iran must get over its fantasies of Shia empire in the region, it has too, zip zilch, no other choice or the region will become ISIS empire and it will destroy Iran and every other nation getting i the way of it.

Now if all your brothers changed "Iran" into "Israel" maybe you would have liberated your lands. My advice, first liberate your lands that you sold for 5 Dinars/shekels before showing hate towards other countries. No one is waiting for a Palestinian land-seller to accuse Iran of destabilizing the region.

 

[Falcon29]

Now if all your brothers changed "Iran" into "Israel" maybe you would have liberated your lands. My advice, first liberate your lands that you sold for 5 Dinars/shekels before showing hate towards other countries. No one is waiting for a Palestinian land-seller to accuse Iran of destabilizing the region.

It's getting old, try something new.

 

[dexter]

Aren't you people not tired of this blame game??
It is and always the mindset which lead to these attacks not a certain sect.

“Whoever kills a person [innocent person]…it is as though he has killed all mankind. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved all mankind.” (Qur’an, 5:32)

 

[JonAsad]

Inna lillahi wa inna elehi rajion

its such a sad news-
The saudi security forces are fully capable to deal with this situation -
Soon you will see culprits being arrested and beheaded-

 

[TheNoob]

Theres your call Saudi Arabia.

Show us the power of the advanced weaponry you bought!

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Theres your call Saudi Arabia.

Show us the power of the advanced weaponry you bought!

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This attack was a lone wolf attack most likely. The perpetrator is dead. Are you talking about the 2000 + Houthi terrorists that are dead? Or the numerous KSA bombardments of ISIS in Syria? KSA Is safe so not sure what you are talking about either, mr. TheNoob. Give it a rest.

 

[TheNoob]

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This attack was a lone wolf attack most likely. The perpetrator is dead. Are you talking about the 2000 + Houthi terrorists that are dead? Or the numerous KSA bombardments of ISIS in Syria? KSA Is safe so not sure what you are talking about either, mr. TheNoob. Give it a rest.

I wasnt putting up sarcasm though.
Just said you should just declare a full on war against the barbarians up in the north.

Think of all the possibilities!
You being the savior of the most arab people there.

Damn, You'll probably win more hearts than Iran will!

 

[Saif al-Arab]

I wasnt putting up sarcasm though.
Just said you should just declare a full on war against the barbarians up in the north.

Think of all the possibilities!
You being the savior of the most arab people there.

Damn, You'll probably win more hearts than Iran will!

We don't know anything about the identity of that terrorist with full certainty. Or whether he was sent by ISIS or had been in Iraq or Syria before. All we can conclude is that this is the second attack of such type in the history of KSA. The first such attack occurred last year and it was also an attack that ISIS claimed responsibility for. All the main culprits were either killed or arrested and those arrested have been sentenced to death.

Obviusly the current climate in the region, war against the Houthi's etc. have a big role to play here.

Anyway have no worries. A few lone wolf attacks here and there is the most that can happen.

ISIS won't disappear as long as the genocidal Al-Assad regime is in Syria. If there was justice in the ME such groups would not have a fertile ground to exist in. They only operate in unstable countries if you notice.

The pathetic regimes in the Arab world/Muslim world is what stops the regular person from cooperating. To survive they need to have/create enemies so their people can be occupied by something. Oldest trick in the book. All the regimes in the Muslim world do it. People are easily manipulated though and fear is ruling the MENA region. Once the fear will be gone changes will occur. They are inevitable.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎[

This Ummah is losing the basics. My heart and my prayers are with the dead, the wounded, and their loved ones.

One nation after another, destabilization starts. This is the fitnah that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had warned us.

Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh (ra): That one day Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) entered upon her in a state of fear and said, "None has the right to be worshiped but Allah! Woe to the Arabs from the Great evil that has approached (them). Today a hole has been opened in the dam of Gog and Magog like this." The Prophet (ﷺ) made a circle with his index finger and thumb. Zainab bint Jahsh added: I said, "O Alllah's Apostle! Shall we be destroyed though there will be righteous people among us?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Yes, if the (number) of evil (persons) increased."

1. 
   Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 7135 (Afflictions and the End of the World)
   In-book reference:Book 92, Hadith 82

Indeed the Gog and Magog are with us and they are unleashing their evil on every Arab and Muslim household.

 

[Madali]

We keep seeing groups like ISIS always being blamed on everyone except themselves. In Iraq, they say its because the Shia government discriminated against Sunnis. In Syria, it's blamed on Assad.

What's excuses can you find here? Was the Shias in Saudis discriminating against the Sunnis? Was King Salman secretly in bed with Iran?

Take some responsibility.

@Irfan Baloch

Bro, can you prevent the Farsi trolls from writing in this thread? This news does not concern them nor do they care about Saudi Arabian Shia's or other Shia Arabs.

This attack is the second attack on Shia's in KSA's history. Given the turmoil in the region and the fact that KSA is surrounded by states which are at war this is a very, very small number.

So far less than 10 people have been reported as dead.

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

More news to follow. Just returned from Salat al-Jum'ah myself. Unfortunate news.

Some minor protest in a small town (where no one gets hurt or killed) in Iran gets all you people involved, but when Daesh kills minorities in Saudi, it's no one's concern?

Most likely an Iranian supported false flag attack by the Shiites themselves in order to cause havoc and riots among the Shiites since pretty much this the only thing they can do while seeing their Houthi brethrens in Yemen get obliterated

Here is a great evidence why ISIS exists. When people like this guy take no responsibility over the kind of ideologies that are harming our part of the world, why do we have any hope of improvement?

Instead of looking why groups like ISIS pop up and harm minorities, they instead like to cover it with a conspiracy theory, blame some outside force, and sleep peacefully at night. As long as it's Evil Iran's fault, let's no worry about it. Zzzz zzzz.

 

[Madali]

Are you Saudi posters still pointing your fingers at Iran for this, because even your own government is not as idiotic & racist as you!


Saudi IDs bomber after kingdom's deadliest attack in years - Yahoo News

Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed the suicide bomber who killed 21 worshippers at a Shiite mosque had links with the Islamic State group, in what the interior ministry called an attempt to promote sectarian strife.


It was the deadliest attack in years to strike the Sunni-dominated kingdom, and marked the first time the jihadist IS group officially claimed an attack in Saudi Arabia.

"His name was Salih bin Abdulrahman Salih al-Ghishaami, a Saudi national," the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

"He was wanted by security services for belonging to a terrorist cell receiving directions from Daesh abroad," it said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

The militant group had already claimed the attack on Friday in Eastern Province, but it identified the bomber as Abu Amer al-Najdi.

"The cell was discovered last month, and so far 26 of its members, all Saudi nationals, have been arrested," the interior ministry said, raising the number of wounded from 81 to 101.

The bomber struck during the main weekly prayers at a mosque in the Shiite-majority city of Qatif.

It is the second mass murder of Shiites in the kingdom since late last year, and locals in the city took to the streets Saturday to protest the attack.

In November gunmen killed seven Shiites including children in the Eastern Province town of Al-Dalwa.

At the time, authorities said the suspects were linked to IS.

- Numerous atrocities -

Although Sunni extremists attacked Westerners and government targets in Saudi Arabia between 2003 and 2007, the Al-Dalwa shootings were the first major militant assault against Shiites.

The IS group, which considers Shiites heretics, has declared a "caliphate" in seized parts of Iraq and Syria. It has claimed numerous atrocities including the beheading of foreign hostages.

Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Gulf neighbours last year joined a US-led military coalition bombing IS in Syria, raising concerns about possible retaliation in the kingdom.

Since late March the kingdom has also led a coalition bombing Iran-backed Shiite rebels who seized large parts of Yemen and have sent deadly shell fire into Saudi Arabia.

In its statement claiming responsibility for the Qatif attack, IS vowed "dark days ahead" for Shiites until militants "chase them from the Arabian Peninsula".

Political and religious leaders in the kingdom, and its media, were unanimous in denouncing the mosque bombing.

"No room for discord... the people are united," said the Al-Watan daily.

The interior ministry said the attack against "honourable citizens was carried out by tools controlled by foreign forces that aim to divide the unity of society and pull it into sectarian strife".

Saudi policemen gather around debris following a blast inside a mosque, in the mainly Shiite coastal …
But widespread condemnation by Saudi society "sends the message to them that their endeavours have failed," the ministry said.

Saudi Arabia's top cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, called it a "criminal act" which targeted national unity.

The United Nations Security Council and Saudi Arabia's regional Shiite rival Iran condemned the mosque attack.

- Complaints of marginalisation -

Most of the kingdom's Shiites live in the east, where the vast majority of the kingdom's oil reserves lie but where Shiites have long complained of marginalisation.

The Qatif attack occurred despite the arrest since December of nearly 100 jihadists, most of them allegedly linked to IS.

The interior ministry said five members of the suicide bomber's 26-member cell were involved in the May 8 shooting of a policeman on patrol in southern Riyadh.

"They had confessed to their crime and set fire to his body," the ministry said.

Investigators recovered two Kalashnikov rifles used in the policeman's murder, 17 other firearms, and 230 kilograms (507 pounds) of chemicals used for making explosives.

The other 21 detained suspects included two 15-year-olds and one who was 16, the ministry said.

It added that all 21 "had adopted the ideology of the terrorist Daesh," and recruited followers especially among young people.

Frederic Wehrey, a Gulf analyst at the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written that the kingdom's vows to counter the Islamic State group and its sectarianism expose a paradox.

"In its own domestic policies, the Saudi government has institutionalised sectarianism in virtually every aspect of political, social, and economic life," Wehrey wrote in a December article for Foreign Policy.

 

[Al Bhatti]

May 23, 2015

A suicide bomber killed 21 worshippers during Friday prayers in a packed Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on May 22.

Saudi Arabian cleric condemns attack on mosque

Saudi Arabia’s top cleric on Saturday branded a deadly attack on a Shiite mosque a bid to sow chaos in the kingdom.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Al Sheikh was speaking the day after a suicide bomber killed 21 worshippers and wounded 81 in the village of Al Qudeeh in the Eastern Province.

“This totally criminal plot aims to split our ranks and sow chaos in our country but, God be praised, it will not find a way,” Sheikh Abdulaziz told state Al Ekhbariya TV. “The nation and society are united and under a wise leadership.”

It was the first attack in the kingdom to be claimed by ISIL, which warned that more “black days” loom ahead.

The statement on the group’s Al Bayan radio station, 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 ISIL branch in “Najd Province,” referring to the historic region of the central Arabian Peninsula home to the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Friday’s attack was the kingdom’s deadliest militant assault since a 2004 Al Qaeda attack on foreign worker compounds, which sparked a massive Saudi security force crackdown.

ISIL — formerly Al Qaeda’s branch in Iraq which broke away and overran much of that country and Syria — has become notorious for its attacks on Shiites, including a deadly Shiite mosque bombing in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, that killed more than 130 people. It was blamed for the killing of eight Shiites in a mosque shooting in eastern Saudi Arabia in November.

Sheikh Mohammed Obeidan, a top local Shiite cleric, urged followers not to give into their anger and maintain the peace.

“We’ll stand before anyone who thinks that our creed is a cause for fear or worry ... mass prayer — in a calm, orderly way with self restraint — is the right way to respond to this corrupt force and hateful darkness,” he told worshippers on Saturday.

He was speaking after thousands of protesters took to the streets of Al Qadeeh on Friday evening to vent their anger at what they saw as the government’s indifference to their safety.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council condemned the attack.

“Such attacks on places of worship are abhorrent and intended to promote sectarian conflict,” said a statement from Mr Ban’s office.

Saudi interior ministry spokesman General Mansour Al Turki told state television the kingdom was seeking to root out ISIL’s presence, especially after the gun attack on a Shiite mosque that killed five people in nearby Ahsa village in November.

The ministry said last month that it had arrested 93 suspected members of the group.

Saudi Arabian cleric condemns attack on mosque | The National

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Suicide bomber strikes at Saudi mosque - in pictures | The National

 

[Shapur Zol Aktaf]

Will saudi Arabia bomb Al-qaeda in Yemen?