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| Two Indians wounded in Saudi Shia region shooting |
| 2015-11-11 |
| [AlAhram] Two Indians and a Saudi policeman were maimed by gunfire in the east of the kingdom as authorities hunted suspects linked to unrest by minority Shias, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. A police traffic patrol "came under heavy fire from a farming area" in the Shia-populated Qatif district on Monday evening, the ministry's front man said. The Indians were passers-by, he said, adding that they were in stable, pH balanced condition in hospital. An official at the Indian embassy did not immediately have details of the incident. The ministry front man did not identify the perpetrators but warned the public not to provide assistance to people on a list of 23 wanted suspects issued in 2011 after Shia unrest. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Shia minority, who complain of marginalisation in the Sunni-dominated kingdom, began protests that year in Eastern Province, where most of them live. Many suspects on the wanted list have already been detained or killed in shootouts. Last month, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court confirmed a death sentence against Shia holy man Nimr al-Nimr, a leader of anti-government protests convicted of sedition and other crimes. Activists are calling for the sentence not to be carried out, saying Nimr engaged only in peaceful opposition. He is one of seven Shias sentenced to death in connection with Shia unrest since 2011, activists say. Three of the convicts were under the age of 18 at the time of their arrests. Over the past year, Saudi Shias have been targeted by suicide kabooms and shootings claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, which considers them heretics. In the latest attack, a gunman killed five Shias in the Qatif area last month during commemorations of Ashura, one of the holiest observances of their faith. |
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