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0 pointsspriggan310y ago0 comments

> Also, we should not be surprised if the rest of the documents will be declassified when, for various reasons, there will be an acute need of war with Saudi Arabia.

There will never be a war with KSA. This place is way too sensitive even the US wouldn't dare touch it. It would be an instant war with the Muslim world. The US has other ways to pressure KSA if needed. I don't think anybody in the US would be that foolish and attack the Mecca .

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gotchange10y ago· 6 in thread

Place Mecca & Medina under international Muslim custodianship* , and then proceed with your war plans. You realize that those two cities constitute only a small geographic area of the Hijaz region let alone the whole Arabia?

*: BTW this is an actual demand of Iran and many other predominantly Muslim countries to have the Islamic holy sites under int'l custodianship and not be treated as part of House of Saud's possessions as it seems the case with time passing while these people in power.

spriggan3OP10y ago

> Place Mecca & Medina under international Muslim custodianship

Why would the Saudis accept that ? They wouldn't.

soperj10y ago

He's talking about attacking the Saudis. Clearly in those circumstances you wouldn't care what they will accept.

AndrewKemendo10y ago

I'm curious who that custodian would be that would not incite a shit storm.

gotchange10y ago

A union of Muslim-majority countries. Let the Muslims decide who control and oversee their holy sites. These are not House of Saud's possessions and shouldn't be treated as such.

imglorp10y ago

Like the Swiss are custodians for the Vatican, not the Italians.

nihonde10y ago

No, that's because Switzerland is the Templar state!

leaveyou10y ago

Maybe I'm naive, but I think there are contingency plans for (almost) everything. Imagine for example there is a coup in KSA and "the bad guys" end up in power and they do crazy things with "our fuel".

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