Islamic State threatens attacks in Saudi Arabia

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Fri Jun 9, 2017 | 9:46am EDT

Islamic State (IS) threatened attacks in Saudi Arabia after the militant group claimed responsibility for assaults in Tehran that killed at least 17 people, Site Intelligence monitoring group reported on Friday.

Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on Wednesday. Scores of people were also wounded.

IS claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks against Iran's majority Shi'ite population, seen by the hardline Sunni militants as heretics.

In a video that appeared to have been recorded before the attack on Tehran, five masked fighters were shown threatening Shi’ites in Iran as well as the Saudi Arabian government saying their turn "will come".

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-security-islamic-state-idUSKBN19020R?il=0

[Lulu KC]

1. Now the sh*t's getting real n/t

[Javaman]

2. took the words out of my mouth. nt

[DetlefK]

3. Well, since it was saudi-arabian clerics who developed ISIS' version of Islam...

How is Saudi-Arabia supposed to prevent radicalization of its own citizens when there's so little difference between ISIS' version of Islam and saudi-arabia's version of Islam?

[Rustyeye77]

7. Wow

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Who could've seen this coming?! It's not like the psychos they financed in Afghanistan during the

80s ever turned on them or anything........ Oh wait.

[hatrack]

5. Sunni vs. Sunni . . .

Maybe it had to come down to this in the end.

"We are the pure and righteous!!!"

"No, WE are the pure and righteous!!"



"Gee, that made everything better!"

[IronLionZion]

6. Is Saudi Arabia going to stop funding them?

Their money comes from somewhere.