Breaking: Saudi Arabia orders citizens to leave Lebanon immediately

RobitTV

Abit odd news coming out of sky and Reuters saying that Saudi Arabia has said its citizens must leave Lebanon immediately.

Bold statement here, what could this mean or what is it trying to say?

SocSocPol

RobitTV wrote: »

Abit odd news coming out of sky and Reuters saying that Saudi Arabia has said its citizens must leave Lebanon immediately.

Bold statement here, what could this mean or what is it trying to say?

Obviously they fear an overspill from the Syrian conflict, Lebanon has long suffered from foreign interference and most recently from Syrian and Iranian, with the Saudies backing the "rebels", they may be fearing retaliation.

Mr.Micro

SocSocPol wrote: »

Obviously they fear an overspill from the Syrian conflict, Lebanon has long suffered from foreign interference and most recently from Syrian and Iranian, with the Saudies backing the "rebels", they may be fearing retaliation.

or, Israel 'prepared for 30-day war with Iran'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19274866#

SocSocPol

Mr.Micro wrote: »

or, Israel 'prepared for 30-day war with Iran'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19274866#

Indeed so, and with unspoken approval of certain gulf states.

Mr.Micro

Mr.Micro wrote: »

or, Israel 'prepared for 30-day war with Iran'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19274866#

Starting to look like it. Hopefully Israel will be biting more than they can chew this time.

The Israeli

Deleted User wrote: »

Starting to look like it. Hopefully Israel will be biting more than they can chew this time.

In other words: I hope that the divine Iranian government will beat their Zionist asses.

Cheerful Spring

RobitTV wrote: »

Abit odd news coming out of sky and Reuters saying that Saudi Arabia has said its citizens must leave Lebanon immediately.

Bold statement here, what could this mean or what is it trying to say?

Its got to do with this.Syria Conflict Spills Into Lebanon With Rash of Kidnappings

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/world/middleeast/explosion-in-damascus-syria.html

Palmach

The Israeli wrote: »

In other words: I hope that the divine Iranian government will beat their Zionist asses.

I can assure you some of us are right behind the only democracy in the region and want the mad mullahs and their supporters buried asap.

thecommietommy

Palmach wrote: »

I can assure you some of us are right behind the only democracy in the region and want the mad mullahs and their supporters buried asap.

Who's that Turkey ?

As for the mad mullahs - "The spiritual leader of Israel's orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. " ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm

old_aussie

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8610SH20120816

Fine and Sunny in the morning turning mostly sheite at dusk.

The Israeli

Ovadia Yosef says many stupid things regarding everyone. He has no hold over the secular and the light religious big majority in Israel and no military or police power whatsoever. Unlike Ali Akhminai and Akhmadinijad that have that power.
Also, he or his party were never involved in any violent event, though I can't say so about economic crimes.

wes

thecommietommy wrote: »

Who's that Turkey ?

Also Lebanon and Iraq, are both democracies as well...... Its amazing that there are people who are still willing to tell the old lie about the only democracy in the ME.

antoobrien

RobitTV wrote: »

Abit odd news coming out of sky and Reuters saying that Saudi Arabia has said its citizens must leave Lebanon immediately.

Bold statement here, what could this mean or what is it trying to say?

It has to do with this article posted earlier, Saudi Arabia is overwhelminlgly Sunni and there's a fair bit of animosity between Sunni and Shia. Not co-incidentally Iran is mostly Shia.

old_aussie wrote: »

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8610SH20120816

A Lebanese Shi'ite clan seized more than 20 people in Beirut and said a Turkish hostage, whose country is a key backer of Syria's mainly Sunni Muslim insurgency, would be the first to die if a kinsman held by Syrian rebels were killed.

The powerful Shi'ite Meqdad family is seeking to put pressure on rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to release clan member Hassan al-Meqdad, who has been held by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) for two days.

The clan has targeted Syrians it believes belong to the FSA, as well as citizens of Turkey, one of the rebels' regional sponsors.

An earlier threat by the kidnappers to seize Saudis, Turks and Qataris to secure the release of a kinsman held by Syrian rebels in Damascus bore ominous echoes of Lebanon's own civil war - and Arab governments lost no time in urging visitors to leave Beirut's popular summer tourist haunts.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain all told their nationals to leave at once. Some nations have already begun flying their citizens home.

Eggy Baby!

Also Lebanon and Iraq, are both democracies as well......

Well....a corrupt disaster of a democracy.