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July 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry claimed that Sheikh Nimr – who has been
detained and allegedly beaten twice in the past eight years – tried to evade
capture and was wounded after his car collided with a security vehicle,
prompting an exchange of fire.
“Security will not tolerate troublemakers who abuse the community and
their nation,” the ministry said in a statement.
The kingdom’s ruling family has attempted to ward of a Saudi spring by
announcing £840 million in new government spending.
But although this largesse has temporarily mollified Saudi Sunnis whose chief
grievances revolve around poor schools and affordable housing, it has failed
to pacify the marginalised Shia communities in the east, where the vast
majority of the kingdom’s oil is found.
Despite promises to respond to Shia grievances by giving the minority
scholarships and greater access to government jobs, calls for the secession
of Eastern Province have grown increasingly audible in recent months.
The unrest comes at a time of vulnerability for the ruling House of Saud.
With a series of deaths necessitating the naming of three crown princes in
eight months and King Abdullah believed to be at least in his 90th year, the
royal family’s authority appears much less ironclad than it once was.
Rumours of extravagance and corruption by the ageing princes has become the
subject of mockery of YouTube clips and open dissent is becoming more
common, even outside the east.
March saw a riot by female students in the south-western city of Abha and
there was even a “flash mob” protest at shopping mall in the
capital Riyadh in June to demand release of political prisoners.
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