January 11, 2016

Masked men attack Saudi intelligence compound with firebombs


The Writ of  Al Saud is being challenged.

They will respond with more violence










Masked men threw firebombs at an intelligence service compound in the city of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, activists said on Monday, in an apparent reprisal for the execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric earlier this month.

A Saudi Interior Ministry spokesperson said “there was a failed terrorist attempt to burn the building with Molotov cocktails” and that one of the assailants was captured.

Video footage posted on social media and dated January 9 showed several masked young men moving under cover of darkness and lobbing firebombs over the protective outer wall of a building compound.Most of the firebombs were seen exploding on the ground inside, setting a nearby tree on fire.

The authenticity of the footage could not immediately be confirmed.

It was not initially clear who was behind the attack.

But the recording contained a footnote indicating that it was carried out by Shia youth seeking to avenge the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a vocal critic of the kingdom’s Sunni Muslim monarchy.

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