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2025-02-07 Arabia

Saudi Arabia suddenly mobilises more mercenary forces in Mahrah

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
has transferred dozens of people from the eastern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i province of Mahrah to train in camps in the al-Abr border area within the so-called ''Dera al-Watan'' factions.

Sources reported that the young men were suddenly summoned and transferred to training in the Shehn area, which led to a breakdown in communication between them and their families.

Reports indicate that the recruits were transferred to the factions' training camp in al-Abr amid local rejection of the establishment of these factions.

Through the formation of ''Dera al-Watan,'' Saudi Arabia seeks to protect an oil pipeline that it plans to pass through Mahrah to reach the port of Nashton on the Arabian Sea, despite opposition from local tribes since 2017.

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