Saudi Rage Over Syria Leaves Shiites Anxious About Reprisals: Saudi Arabia’s proxy war against Bashar al-Assad is popular among a mostly Sunni Muslim public enraged by the killings of their co-religionists in Syria. Among the kingdom’s Shiite minority, many worry that the anger will eventually be directed toward them.
“The Saudis are quite concerned, as they should be, about the possible spillover of increased violence and dissent in response to events in Syria and Bahrain,” he said. “Tensions between the Sunnis and Shiites are not subsiding, and seem to be getting worse.”
Saudi Arabia funds "Army of Islam” in Syria: Syrian rebel groups have been jockeying for further foreign funding by realigning their coalitions to meet objectives of their state sponsors. An allegedly "moderate Islamist” group of Sunni brigades has formed to serve as Saudi Arabia’s rebel proxy fighting force. It calls itself the Army of Islam, and its goal is to field 100,000 troops before next spring’s fighting season.
1.7 Billion Sunni against 100 million Shiite in Syria and around the world
Is Syrian crisis the
beginning of a wider war? Absolutely
"Every Muslim trained to
fight and capable of doing that (must) make himself available" to support the
Syrian rebels.
Rebels
have fired dozens of rockets on Lebanon's northeastern region of Hermel
over the past weeks but Saturday's attack was the first on Baalbek.
Syria's two-year civil war has spilled over to Lebanon where fighters
who back and oppose Assad have clashed, leaving scores dead and wounded
in recent months.
Hezbollah will not stop and will
not be cowed. In many instances they have even taken the lead in trying to turn
around the successes of the rebels. Islamists on both sids of which Al Nusra on
one side and Hezbollah on the other, will and are holding a leading role in the
fighting.
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