Has the Arab revolt reached Saudi Arabia? Wednesday, Oct. 5, the Ministry of Interior in Riyadh warned it would "strike with an iron fist" the enemies of the country's stability and security after 11 security officers were injured by automatic fire and Molotov bombs in Qatif, Saudi Arabia's richest oil center The Saudis did not name Iran, but blamed a "foreign country" for inciting the region's Shiites to armed violence against the royal regime. Away from the optimistic hype surrounding the "Arab Spring" – especially in Libya - and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, the coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday reveals how Western intelligence chiefs secretly sized up the consequences of both at their first conference in ten months. War tensions between Turkey, NATO and Syria shot up again Tuesday, Oct. 4, with the announcement from Ankara that Turkey embarks Wednesday on a 10-day "mobilization" exercise in the southern province of Hatay along the Syrian borderwhere 7,000 Syrian refugees are sheltering. A visit by the Turkish prime minister is also expected. Earlier, DEBKAfilereported exclusively that Bashar Assad had been threatening for three months to destroy Tel Aviv within six hours of an attack on Syria.
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Their outlook was far from rosy. The West is nowhere near its goals in the Arab world and the war on al Qaeda faces big obstacles in new places.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Rogue Events?????? ww1-ww2 repeating itself???? whilst the MSM serve up Bread and Circuses!!!!!
Rogue Events??????
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 5, 2011, 5:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi Special Forces in action
Al Qaeda resurgent in Mid East, Africa
October 4, 2011, 12:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
CIA chief David Petraeus
Turkish military exercise on Syrian border. Assad threatens Tel Aviv if attacked
October 4, 2011, 5:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian troops facing Turkey
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