Coalition vows to wipe terrorists from the face of the Earth
According to AFP, forty-one defense ministers from Muslim countries met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia yesterday in order to begin coordination in their own war against terror. They were led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and defense minister and heir to the throne.
The alliance groups largely, although not exclusively, Sunni-majority or Sunni-ruled countries.
It excludes Saudi Arabia’s arch-rival, Shiite-dominated Iran, as well as Syria and Iraq, whose leaders have close ties to Tehran.
Sunday’s meeting coincides with an escalation in tensions between Riyadh and Tehran, particularly over wars in Syria and Yemen and the political structure of multi-confessional Lebanon.
Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of supporting armed groups across the Middle East, including Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah and Yemen’s Huthi rebels.
“The pillar of this coalition is inclusion,” said Saudi General Abdulelah al-Saleh, the alliance’s acting secretary general, playing down the exclusion of the three countries.
“Our common enemy is terrorism, not any religion, sect or race.”
Well, they’re about sixteen years too late, but I guess late is better than never.
The alliance was announced in 2015, it took two years to have their first meeting, so I’m thinking that not too much will come of this alliance, I hope I’m wrong.
Since the alliance is mostly Sunni, they may have some short-term effect on Sunni al-Qaeda and Sunni ISIS, but the real threat in the region is Shi’ite Iran and their client Shi’ite Hezbollah. Freezing them out of the coalition doesn’t bode well for the whole process.
Category: Terror War
Yeah, well, I ain’t holdin’ my breath, bro.
That vow is about as trustworthy as “I’ll still respect you in the morning.”
Or “insha-allah”
…We have heard this song before…
What follows? Full-blown warfare in the Middle East, rather than the hit-and-run stuff that has been going on? (Okay, not ALL of it was like that, but you know what I mean.)
Earlier this month, the Saudis ordered its citizens in Lebanon to leave ASAP, raising the possibility of war. Then on 11/24/17, they announced their counter-terrorism summit (see article above), so where is this going?
Is this a build-up to something more than what has been going on up until now? And what is the US role in this?
Hopefully the US role would be to arm both sides and then get the popcorn ready.
Freezing them out of the process is the firs step to labeling them as the culprit, to be followed by an attempt at eradication.
I’m gonna up my investment in CONAGRA, (NYSE: CAG), parent company for Orville Redenbacher popping corn…..
Maybe if the Saudis, Iranians, Pakistanis, Syrians, et al, would stop funding these cocksuckers….
Yep, these fucksticks claiming they’re going to wipe out the terrorists sounds a lot like OJ telling us he is looking for Nicole Simpson’s and Ron Goldman’s killer….
Speaking of that, I heard he went to every golf course he could in his search before he went to prison!
Gee, now they want to “Fight Terrorism”? How nice of them! Are they going to cut off funding to the various terrorist organizations that are Wahbists and Salafis? Are they going to cutoff funding to all the Maddrassas that they have opened around the world to further Wahbism? Are they going to start using their military as something more than a flying club for rich dilletentes? Use there mostly Pakistani-manned army to “Fight Terroism”.
This is just a cover to say, “All Iran’s fault”. They need to look in the mirror, they will see the biggest sponsor of terror in the world. themselves. This is another Saudi shell game. It will give them a pretext to start slaughtering Shi’ite. Not that I will be crying too much. Let them fight it out and nuke the winner.
Never happen but it is a fantasy.
Sunni vs. Shi’a. Nothing has changed since 632 AD.
Next week the Sunni Alliance Group will declare it has overwhelmingly defeated terrorism.
Why can’t these peeps just sit around a campfire all night banging sticks together singing SARAH SPONDA, SARAH SPONDA. (great 50’s campfire song)
Ain’t gonna happen. They will go underground, wait a few years, build up their bank balance then emerge. In the interim, there will be hit and run attacks in Europe and the US. They hate us, plain and simple and the only way to win is kill every last one and their children. That ain’t gonna happen either. We need to apply the strategy that almost worked in Nam. It was grab them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.
Dog eat dog.
It’s important that it’s being said in the open, loudly, for a number of reasons.
And we’d be a hell of a lot worse off were it not for good guy Muslims.
The surge was nothing without the awakening working in tandem with it.
The Jordanians are badasses, top-to-bottom. They don’t get the credit they deserve. They were essentially responsible for the tracking, pin pointing, and whacking of the Big Z.
The Pakistanis have a lot of very good guys who have been fighting the good fight for a very long time. The nature of the war and the work means they will rarely be given the credit they are due when something good happens.
Most importantly, every action (like this declaration) that takes away local support for Iran’s covert types is another nail in the coffin for them. You can’t wage a low intensity conflict by proxy when you don’t have the local support that allows you to hide.
The only area in which I might argue with you is with the Pakistanis.
True, we have received invaluable assistance from them, but at the same time, the ISI is real good at talking out both sides of their ass. Ditto with the pols, who are in many cases there because of the intel apparatus. We are allies, or at least on friendly terms with them so long as the dollars keep flowing into Islamabad.
Stop that, and I’m not exactly optimistic.
And don’t get me started about how they had no idea OBL was living right under their noses.
The ISI certainly plays both sides.
But the bottom line is Pakistan has been at war with itself (extremists vs. moderates) for decades. Tens of thousands of casualties in a civil war every year, for decades.
There are diehard ‘good’ guys with the ISI that have died fighting our common foe and their own families disowned them for it.
It’s a tangled clusterfuck that will never get truly sorted out, like almost everything involving arabs, islam, etc.
The internal strife + their nukes kept me up at night for years. Thank the gods for PALs and the fact that they made the wise call when it really mattered and sought our assistance.
Of course higher ups knew about OBLs pad. But we really fucked up leaving the MD blowing in the wind after he helped us in IDing OBL. Hard to judge the guys who kept their mouths shut; if you or I had a family and were Pakistani MI and knew about OBL, as Pakistanis would we have risked everything in an attempt to get word to the right people? I’ll be brutally honest and say I probably would have kept my mouth shut.
One can only hope that President Trump will listen to those who are saying ‘Give us the Doctor or all financial aid and hardware deliveries stop as of now’.
What we let happen to that MD is a stain on the honor of the USA.
True. Sadly, we have left way too many of our allies and people who have helped us twisting in the wind.
Sometimes quite literally.
An American tradition since 1973, sadly.
They can talk all they want, but I say DEEDS, NOT WORDS. Gee whiz, we NEVER saw anything like this during the previous administration, did we?
good luck with that one guys!muslims killing muslims win win!
All we need now is Moshe Dayan to lead them
Muslim terrorism been going on since the 7th century. Good luck with that. Islam is a war doctrine incompatible with anything else.
Spot on. It’s a tailor-made, purpose-built ‘religion’ of conquest.
Putin showed his brain power in Chechnya by countering hostile imams with ‘his own’ imams. Fought fire with fire, and it’s worked brilliantly so far.
Amazing what you can do when you shitcan political correctness.
Muzzies want to hack everyone else’s head off, but when you stick them all together, they still hack each other’s heads off!
Fucking Saudi’s using doublespeak, like most Arabs…
Hidden meanings and messages is all their empty promises are.