waltky, et al,
You will no doubt note that "walky's" commentary, his source news story cites as one reasons that is rooted in the reasoning in
Posting #7,
supra, which is just part of the problem.
Bombers Raise Saudi Stakes With Back-to-Back Suicide Strikes
With no claims of responsibility, suspicion has fallen on Islamic State, which has vowed to overthrow Gulf rulers they see as betraying Islam. One of the bombings on Monday, near the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina, targeted the heart of the Al Saud family’s legitimacy -- its custodianship of Islam’s two holiest shrines.
SOURCE: Bloomberg 5 JUL 16, by Glen Carey and Dana Khraiche
Back-to-Back Suicide Strikes in the Saudi kingdom...
Bombers Raise Saudi Stakes With Back-to-Back Suicide Strikes
6 July`16 - Kingdom has experience crushing a militant insurgency; Escalated violence seen triggering tough government response
Militants escalated their campaign against Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al Saud family with three suicide attacks in a single day, in the biggest challenge to the kingdom’s internal security since it crushed an al-Qaeda insurgency a decade ago. With no claims of responsibility, suspicion has fallen on Islamic State, which has vowed to overthrow Gulf rulers they see as betraying Islam. One of the bombings on Monday, near the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina, targeted the heart of the Al Saud family’s legitimacy -- its custodianship of Islam’s two holiest shrines. “The Saudis are likely to react firmly, if not harshly, to the attacks,” James Dorsey, a senior fellow in international studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in response to e-mailed questions. If coordinated, the bombings “would demonstrate the ability of IS to strike multiple times in the kingdom within a 24-hour framework and as such suggest that the kingdom has a real problem.”
The violence began in Jeddah, a commercial center, where a man identified by the government as Pakistani-born blew himself up near the U.S. consulate. Hours later on the opposite side of the country, two bombers struck a Shiite mosque in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province. In Medina, Islam’s second-holiest city after Mecca, four security personnel were killed outside the Prophet’s Mosque. The attacks extended a two-week terrorism spree that has killed dozens in Iraq, Turkey and Bangladesh. Kuwait bolstered its security around oil installations on Monday after breaking up a network allegedly planning to assault the Shiite community and a state facility. Saudi Arabia is determined to fight terrorism “with an iron fist,” King Salman said Tuesday in a speech commemorating the start of the Muslim Eid holiday. The biggest challenge for the Muslim community is protecting its youth from “the dangers of extremism,” he said.
Al-Qaeda Precedent
The kingdom’s rulers faced a similar insurgency a decade ago when al-Qaeda militants returning from battling U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq redirected their fire against Saudi government targets and foreign workers. Authorities crushed that threat by 2007, jailing many al-Qaeda supporters and forcing others to flee to neighboring Yemen. Today, militants inspired by Islamic State, an al-Qaeda breakaway, are waging a low-level campaign against police and other symbols of power. They’ve also mounted assaults along the country’s religious fault lines with attacks on minority Shiites. “The group is experimenting and trying to learn about the state’s weaknesses to exploit them,” Firas Abi Ali, principal analyst at IHS Country Risk, said in an e-mailed report. “It also suggests that the group’s ideology is sufficiently popular in Saudi Arabia to obtain individuals eager to take their own lives.”
Economic Shakeup
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As of yet, there is no appreciable adverse impact on the regional or greater national economy, other than the cost of clean-up --- which may actually make --- such a periodic event a positive impact on the economy in terms of renewal efforts, in the long run.
Haveing said that, I noted something especially interesting in the Bloomberg article that makes a correlation more visible:
FIRST:
The kingdom’s rulers faced a similar insurgency a decade ago when al-Qaeda militants returning from battling U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq redirected their fire against Saudi government targets and foreign workers.
This has a direct correlation to the possible impact the sudden and unrestraint release of Arab-Palestinian Jihadist, Insurgents, Terrorists, and other asymmetric fighters, of a extreme radical Islamist character, may turn next
(in the phony name of liberation and religion). The lifting of the Israeli containment of these various and disturbing Arab-Palestinian elements acts like a metastatic disease spreading havoc over the region.
SECOND:
The biggest challenge for the Muslim community is protecting its youth from “the dangers of extremism,” he said.
This is a direct connection to the Arab League support and tacit approve of generational transference of radical extremist Islamic influence. This again, with great unleashed if the Hostile Arab Palestinians are suddenly released into the wild.
DAESH, which is the focus of this Bloomberg Essay, is todays threat. For most of the Arab League, DAESH is the more important threat. But in dealing with the most immediate threat, the Arab League Leadership cannot (or discontinue) giving support to the radical extremist Islamist must be very cautious; else they risk conjuring the new big threat.
Most Respectfully,
R
