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| Tango01 | 21 Mar 2015 10:46 p.m. PST |
…Iran And Saudi Arabia. "The latest atrocity in Yemen, which claimed nearly 150 lives on Friday, appears part of a proxy war between the Middle East's two superpowers Of all the wars that have ravaged the Middle East since the outbreak of the so-called Arab Spring four years ago, the bitter rivalry between the more fanatical adherents of Sunni and Shia Islam has now emerged as the region's defining conflict. The deadly series of suicide bomb attacks in Yemen on Friday, which are reported to have claimed the lives of nearly 150 people, is just the latest brutal manifestation of the Sunni-Shia conflict which has resulted in rival forces inflicting widespread bloodshed throughout the Arab world. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Bahrain are among the many Middle Eastern states that have been badly affected by the deepening hostility between rival Sunni and Shia factions. And at the heart of a conflict which threatens to transform the political landscape of the modern Arab world lies the deadly rivalry between Saudi Arabia's Sunni fundamentalist ruling family and Iran's equally uncompromising Shia-based Islamic revolution…"
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| Cyrus the Great | 22 Mar 2015 12:05 a.m. PST |
The deadly series of suicide bomb attacks in Yemen on Friday, which are reported to have claimed the lives of nearly 150 people were reported to be ISIS suicide bombers. |
| Maxshadow | 22 Mar 2015 2:42 a.m. PST |
Good article thanks Tango |
| Redroom | 22 Mar 2015 7:28 a.m. PST |
Yemen has always been part of the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia IMO. |
 Legion 4  | 22 Mar 2015 2:23 p.m. PST |
Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar, among others in the area, are buying up a lot of new military equipment recently. I guess they may be preping for a showdown with Iran at sometime in the future … |
| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2015 9:38 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.
