19 Mar 2024
American Herald Tribune | Thomas C. Mountain: Since May, 2017 an ongoing insurgency has been raging in the Shiaheartland town of Awamiyah in eastern Saudi Arabia and its only thanksto theBBCbeing allowed to enter the area and film the destructionthat the world can see how the House of Sauds war against the Shiapopulation of Yemen has now expanded to include the Shia populationof eastern Saudi Arabia.

TheBBC Worldreport shown on Wednesday, August 16, seemed to havecome from Syria, with al-Zara, the ancient Shia capital of the Persianprovince of Bahrain and the rest the town of Awamiyah showing a levelof devastation resembling that in Syria or to the Kurdish citiesdestroyed recently by Erdogan Ottomans Janissarris.

Block by block destruction of the Old City with no visible signs ofthe Shia people who once lived here for millennia with almost 500buildings destroyed and over 20,000 driven from their homes by Saudiairstrikes, artillery and mortar fire.

TheBBCcrew was only allowed there in armored vehicles, filmingthrough bullet proof windows while traveling as a part of an armoredconvoy. The one time they were allowed to stop and step outside thebattlewagons they were riding, firing could be heard and they werequickly ordered to return to their vehicles so they could escape.

This short view of an almost unknown urban war in the midst of theSaudi oilfields, with 2 million barrels a day being pumped via Awamiyahalone (20% of total Saudi exports) with the House of Saud, afterRussia, being the 2nd largest oil exporter worldwide, should besending shivers down the spines of those occupying the seats of powerboth east and west.

How long the Shia rebellion in eastern Saudi Arabia, home to almostall Saudi oil reserves, will be able to maintain an armed resistanceto the Saudi military assault is the 10 million barrel a day question.

The excuse given by the House of Saud royal family mouthpieces is theywere driving the Shia from their ancient homeland for urban renewalpurposes. Never mind the renewing would destroy world heritage sitessuch as the ancient town of al-Zara, capital of the Shia, Persianprovince of Bahrain for millennia past and sacred to the Shiapopulation and in the process relocate the Shia population as far apossible from the Saudi oil fields.

Wahhabi is as Wahhabi does with the crimes committed in the name ofSunni Islam in Yemen now being carried out next door to their cousins,the Saudi Shia. Onlythe silence of the media lambs internationallyalongside the UN, allows this to go unnoticed, for a double standardhas long existed when it comes to condemning the crimes of the Houseof Saud. After the latest round of beheadings of Shia leaders proteststurned to gunfire in Awamiyah and the fires of armed revolution havebeen lit for the first time of Saudi Arabia.

The Shia of eastern Saudi Arabia are cousins to their ratherunorthodox Houthi neighbors in Yemen with a long history ofintermarriage and commerce. The flood of small arms that has plaguedYemen for decades past have over the years made its way into the handsof the Shia population in the midst of the House of Sauds oil fields.While many waited in vain for the armed struggle to break out inBahrain, instead it exploded in the cultural heartland of this oncePersian province and in a much more strategically critical location,in Awamiyah and ancient al-Zara.

While still early, for almost 4 months now the armed resistance inAwamiyah appears to have fought the Saudi army into a stalemate,surviving heavy air and artillery bombardment, with shots stillringing whenever the armed might of the House of Saud ventures withinrange of their small arms. If this very first armed uprising is ableto maintain their determination to see an end to their oppression bytheir Wahhabi occupiers similar to the relentless fight being waged by
the mainly Houthi based resistance in Yemen then all hell could breaklose.

Losing control of their oil fields would inevitably bring down theRoyal House of Saud, in power since their installation by the Britishafter WWI.

If this armed uprising survives the Saudi Army onslaught and canspread to villages and towns throughout Shia eastern Saudi Arabia andthe over 3 million strong Shia people take up arms against the regimesimilar to their cousins in Yemen those shivers running down thespines of the lords of power east and west could quickly grow to bemigraine headaches as a major portion of the worlds oil supplies couldbe threatened if not cut off.
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