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They might regret pissing off Saudi Arabia.

Isis first Saudi Arabia attack: Shi'ite Qatif mosque targeted by Islamic State suicide bomber

Islamic State (Isis) has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia's eastern province that killed over 20 people while they prayed at a local mosque. The bombing marks the first time IS has struck inside Saudi Arabia. The jihadi group has issued a statement in Arabic on Twitter as well as what appears to be a photograph of the bomber, who targeted a Shi'ite mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh. The village is in the restive Shi'ite province of Qatif, which has seen rising tensions between Shi'ite residents and nearby Sunni tribes as well as with the Saudi Arabian government. The statement is impossible to verify but both Syria-based monitoring group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and a number of other terrorist monitoring sites published it late on 22 May.

Earlier, a suicide bomber targeted a mosque in Sana'a, the Yemini capital, in an attack also claimed by IS. In Qatif, witnesses told Reuters the huge explosion took place at the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh where 150 Muslims had gathered for Friday prayers. Graphic images shared on social media showed victims covered in blood being taken away on stretchers. Other pictures showed shattered glass, debris next to the tiled pillars and bodies covered in sheets laid out on the floor. The Saudi state news agency confirmed a blast had occurred at a mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia. A spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry said the bomber detonated a suicide belt hidden under his clothes inside the mosque causing several people to be "martyred or wounded". In a statement carried by state news agency SPA, the official said: "Security authorities will spare no effort in the pursuit of all those involved in this terrorist crime."
 
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Maybe its a way of ISIS telling the Sauds that they want more of their money.
 
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Seems as though ISIS is doing for us what Obama refuses to do, and that's get other Arab nations to clean up their messes.

Tim-
 
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They shouldn't cry when they get hurt by camel molesting savages that they funded.This is what happens when you feed a scorpion in your pocket.

And not surprisingly this was a Shi'ite mosque...
 
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Well, its not really the first attack by ISIS on the Saud.


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More on the story from the Saudi-owned al Arabiya website

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...ISIS-loyalists-claim-Saudi-mosque-attack.html

A suicide bomber killed at least 19 people Friday in a blast inside a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia as worshippers commemorated the 7th century birth of a revered figure, residents and officials said.

Loyalists of the extremist the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack - the second against Shiites in the kingdom in six months. In November, the extremist ISIS group was accused of being behind the shooting and killing of eight worshippers in the eastern Saudi Arabian village of al-Ahsa.

Despite a string of ISIS-related attacks over the past several months that have also targeted police, Friday’s suicide bombing appears to be the deadliest in the country in nearly a decade.

more and more this conflict is looking like the centuries long war between Protestants and Catholics.
 
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