"Arab army"
Who Will End The Saudi's Salman Embarrassment?
By Moon Of Alabama
December
16, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - "Moon
Of Alabama"
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Muslim nations form coalition to fight terror, call
Islamic extremism 'disease'
Calling
Islamic extremism a disease, Saudi
Arabia has announced the formation of a
coalition of 34 predominately Muslim nations to
fight terrorism.
"This
announcement comes from the Islamic world's
vigilance in fighting this disease so it can be
a partner, as a group of countries, in the fight
against this disease," Saudi Deputy
Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin
Salman said.
...
The coalition's joint operations center will be
based in Riyadh.
In
addition to Saudi Arabia, the coalition will
include Jordan, the United Arab Emirates,
Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey,
Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan,
Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, the
Palestinians, Comoros, Qatar, Cote d'Ivoire,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mali,
Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger,
Nigeria and Yemen.
This seems
to be the "Arab army" the two amigos, Lindsey Graham
and John McCain,
announced earlier:
Defense One:
How are you planning on getting the Arab
countries to put up 90 percent of the ground
forces you’re calling for if we can’t even get
them to put up in the air coalition?
Graham:
Well, they’re not —
McCain:
— If Bashar Assad is also the target, that’s the
key to it … they fear Bashar al-Assad, who is
backed by the Iranians, as much as they do ISIS.
Defense One:
Sen. Graham, so if we
promise them they can also target Assad, they’ll
get in?
McCain:
We would also target Assad. Assad right now
is killing the people we armed and trained
and equipped.
Graham:
I can only tell you what they tell us. I’m not
joking. The king of Saudi Arabia’s chief advisor
said, ‘You can have our army.’ The emir of Qatar
says, ‘I’ll pay for the war.’ They want to do
two things: they want to stop
ISIL before they come in and take their
countries over or disrupt their way of life, and
they also want to make sure Damascus doesn’t
fall into the hands of the Iranians. I’m down
for both.
It may well
be that Mohammed bin Salman, as well as McCain and
Graham, drank too much fermented camel milk.
Neither the Saudis nor the Qataris nor any
"coalition member" will send their armies to fight
in Syria or Iraq.
The
reactions from some "members" of the just announced
Saudi "coalition" make that obvious.
The Deputy
Crown Prince launched a war on Yemen that goes on
without any gain at all but with
serious Saudi losses:
Gen.
Sharaf Ghaleb Luqman, a military spokesman for
the Houthi rebels, said in a telephone interview
Monday that 146 "enemy soldiers and mercenaries
in Bab al Mandab, including foreigners," were
killed when a Houthi rocket struck the "enemy
operations command" in Taizz province.
The
slain troops included 23 Saudis, nine Emiratis
and 12 Moroccan officers, according to Houthi
news outlets. There was no independent
confirmation of the death toll.
The
dead included Saudi Col. Abdullah Sahyan,
according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
Parts of
three Saudi provinces are now occupied by forces
troops. Four special regiments from the Saudi
Interior Ministry were just
called up to clear the areas the Saudi regular
army, under Mohammed bin Salman's command, can not
hold.
Another
embarrassment for the Salman clan is the hajj
stampede in Mecca which the Saudi insists killed
only 769 while news agencies
find that at least 2,411 were killed.
When will
the other members of the wider Saudi family dump
these dupes? Is there someone else who could do
this?
See also -
Britain to support newly-formed Muslim nations'
'ground army' against Isil:
UK facing the prospect of being dragged further into
the war in Syria by providing command and control,
intelligence and air support to troops from the new
coalition of Muslim nations against Islamic State
jihadis |
