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2014-07-03 Arabia

Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-03 06:07|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1 Now ISIS can be resupplied easier.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-07-03 06:19|| 2014-07-03 06:19|| Front Page Top

#2 If Iraq ends up split into three parts, Obama administration will claim a foreign policy victory by successfully replacing Sykes-Picot borders with the Biden borders.

Posted by ryuge 2014-07-03 06:31|| 2014-07-03 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 making sure their Frankenstein monster stays north?

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-03 07:32|| 2014-07-03 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm thinking we should develop our domestic/regional oil and energy resources ASAP.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-03 07:32|| 2014-07-03 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Making sure that the "boys" don't start looking at Mecca. Afterall that is the be all and end all of Muslim territory.

Personally I'd love to see them make a move on the rock.

Posted by AlanC 2014-07-03 08:12|| 2014-07-03 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Sending 30,000 SANG personnel to cover a 2,500 man Iraqi gap.... just about right. Only about 10% of the SANG personnel will likely show up.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-03 10:21|| 2014-07-03 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 How's that Hopey Changy thingy working for you all?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-03 10:38|| 2014-07-03 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Reuters: The Iraqi prime minister's military spokesman denied on Thursday that the country's border guards had withdrawn from the frontier with Saudi Arabia, after a Saudi-owned television channel reported Iraqi forces had quit their posts.

"This is false news aimed at affecting the morale of our people and the morale of our heroic fighters," the spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, told reporters in Baghdad. He added that the frontier was "fully in the grip" of Iraqi border troops.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-03 14:44|| 2014-07-03 14:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Saudi Arabia has troops to protect their country.
Who knew?

Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-03 14:56|| 2014-07-03 14:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Sunni vs Sunni. I wonder if the Saudis will fight. If they do fight I wonder who I will want to win recalling that the Saudis supplied 19 of the 20 9/11 hijackers.

Posted by irishrageboy 2014-07-03 15:57|| 2014-07-03 15:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Saudi officer corps is nancy boy. The very model of an English officer aristocrat queer.

Posted by TopRev 2014-07-03 16:25|| 2014-07-03 16:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Mr. Wife said only those at the receiving end are considered gay, TopRev. The others are just doing what men do when an opening is available. Nonetheless, he never went into the coffeehouses on general principle in that part of the world.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-03 17:34|| 2014-07-03 17:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Obama administration will claim a foreign policy victory by successfully replacing Sykes-Picot borders with the Biden borders.

Actually those are the Michelle Bachman borders. I remember the MSM and liberals laughing hysterically when Michelle suggested them.

Posted by frozen al 2014-07-03 19:06|| 2014-07-03 19:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Besoeker,

If these are indeed SANG, then those wacky al-Sauds have already made the decision not to let the rank and file anywhere near ISIS. The SANG is the royal family's personal bodyguard, and they are the most trustworthy and loyal troops the Sauds have.

If, on the other hand, they crack, we are in very deep kimchi.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-07-03 20:47|| 2014-07-03 20:47|| Front Page Top

#15 ..in that case I recommend Plan B.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-03 23:03|| 2014-07-03 23:03|| Front Page Top

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