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Re: Oil at $61/bbl - Top THREE Reasons Saudis are keeping price down |
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Posted by WillD on Thu Dec 11 09:03:14 2014, in response to Re: Oil at $61/bbl - Top THREE Reasons Saudis are keeping price down, posted by Fred G on Thu Dec 11 03:40:06 2014. Well, kinda. The Saudis are certainly outwardly supportive of our efforts. But the ISIL folks are pretty close to (but more extreme than) the Wahhabist stuff that's in vogue in Saudi Arabia. ISIL seeks to be a spiritual challenger to the Saudis' claim of authority over Islam by virtue of their holding Mecca and Medina while also replacing the House of Saud in a secular sense. Still, to this point ISIL has mostly attacked northern Iraq and many of those they've executed have been Shiite, so the Saudis aren't exactly displeased with that outcome to this point. I guess the only thing that can be said is that the Saudis are somewhat conflicted, and would probably rather ISIL go on killing Shiites until they get too big for their britches and have to be culled. |
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