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[Ganzlinger]

More countries fighting terrorism is good. But hopefully this alliance won't bring problems in the future.

 

[DixieFlatline]

More like a new anti-Shia alliance, I don't trust anything that Saudi Arabia is involved with.

Yes. Look at what's happening in Yemen. While the Saudis are focused on bombing the shit out of Shia "rebels", killing civilians and worsening considerations in what is already one of the poorest countries in the world AQAP and Dasesh are making historic gains in the country's south.

Not very promising.

 

[Sub_Level]

Those people are... what's the word for it...

Stupid. It's all just one long proxy war that we need to learn to not get involved in because the world isn't black and white and we can't keep acting like it is.

And yeah, this is just what the world needed in that region. Another ethno-religious hegemony ruled by a series of autocracies.

"People asking for more arab involvement in fighting terrorists are stupid.

"The West needs to not get involved."

Both of those entail the same thing, no?

 

[andythinkpad]

Honestly, wouldn't any coalition in the region primarily be seen as a "Sunni" led coalition considering the demographics?



They're only five Muslim majority countries where Shiites outnumber Sunnis (Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Bahrain & Lebanon), two of which (Bahrain & Lebanon) are part of the coalition.

.....

Bahrain is basically a small sized city, the ruling family is Sunni.

You can do a virtual tour of Bahrain on google street map within 15 minutes.

 

[Winnie the Pimp]

Seems to me that Isis has become an awesome excuse for pretty much every force in the region to justify their actions in order to further their agendas at that particular moment. Why would anyone even WANT to defeat them at this point when the are far more useful as a pretext to pursue your own goals and interests in the region?

 

[TheRealTalker]

3 goals for this new Coalition to tackle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-ZCVUX4cY
The Men : As in military fighting ISIS members

The Money : Suppressing ISIS funding and money

The Mindset : Controlling ISIS ideology from spreading

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

3 goals for this new Coalition to tackle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-ZCVUX4cY
The Men : As in military fighting ISIS members

The Money : Suppressing ISIS funding and money

The Mindset : Controlling ISIS ideology from spreading

this one's gonna be fun

 

[DudeWithNoName]

3 goals for this new Coalition to tackle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-ZCVUX4cY
The Men : As in military fighting ISIS members

The Money : Suppressing ISIS funding and money

The Mindset : Controlling ISIS ideology from spreading

Dodn't the Saudis pretty much invent and spread the ISIS ideology?

 

[TheRealTalker]

Dodn't the Saudis pretty much invent and spread the ISIS ideology?

who knows

there has been a bunch of ISIS attacks on the Saudis this year alone... from mosques to gunfights in Riyadh to some Saudi soldiers dying in a coordinated attack in Yemen by ISIS

they arrested a bunch of people and likely they feel it is an annoying threat now

 

[GSG Flash]

So it seems that Saudi Arabia decided to include certain countries in their "coalition" without their approval or consent:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35114060

Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry was quoted in the Dawn newspaper as saying he was surprised by the announcement and had asked the Pakistani ambassador in Riyadh for clarification.

The country's foreign office said in a statement later on Wednesday that it was "awaiting further details to decide the extent of its participation in different activities of the alliance" before making a decision on whether to join.

In Indonesia, the foreign ministry said it too had not yet decided whether to join.

"The government is still observing and waiting to see the modalities of the military coalition formed by Saudi Arabia," foreign ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir told The Jakarta Post.

Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein went further - expressing support for the coalition but ruling out any military involvement from Kuala Lumpur.

"The Saudi initiative does not involve any military commitment, but an understanding that we will combat militancy," he said.

Pretty bush league, but then again I'm not surprised SA would do something like this.

 

[Aceofspades]

Good news, its about time these countries step up to deal with their own problems.

 

[Stinkles]

Dodn't the Saudis pretty much invent and spread the ISIS ideology?

Yes. And continue to fund it partly to keep it out of SA.

 

[Jackpot]

So it seems that Saudi Arabia decided to include certain countries in their "coalition" without their approval or consent:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35114060



Pretty bush league, but then again I'm not surprised SA would do something like this.

Lebanon also says it's the first they've heard of it.

In contrast the Foreign Ministry was adamant they had no “memo or phone call mentioning this coalition.” They added they had :"No knowledge whatsoever of the issue of forming an Islamic anti-terror coalition."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ght-terrorism-but-two-countries-a6779186.html

Sounds like a crock of shit.

 

[FreedomFighter]

Lebanon also says it's the first they've heard of it.

Yeah, Lebanon, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia all say this is the first they heard of this. Saudi pulling a fast one. Trying to sanitize its image abroad maybe, I don't know. Not going to work at all.

 

[Suen]

Lebanon also says it's the first they've heard of it.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ght-terrorism-but-two-countries-a6779186.html

Sounds like a crock of shit.

Pretty much. Anyway it's pretty obvious what this coalition really is about. It doesn't include Kuffar countries like Iraq, Iran, Syria, Oman, Algeria, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan. In the end it's just a larger formation of a new sectarian coalition as the one in Yemen has failed considerably (not in killing civilians though)

fake edit: seems documents are circulating on the net where Izzat Al Douri and his little terrorist army, former ISIS allies who assisted them in the fall of Mosul and Tikrit, have pledged alliance to this new coalition. Says everything when even sectarian terrorist groups like the Naqshbandi pledge or want to pledge alliance to you. How times have changed.