{"id":17855,"date":"2013-08-30T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2013-08-30T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T22:56:08","slug":"middle-east-countries-go-on-military-alert-as-dellusional-obama-tries-to-top-jfks-cuba-missile-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17855","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Countries go on Military Alert as Dellusional Obama tries to Top JFKs Cuba Missile Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Grayson on Syria: War is \u201cnot the right decision\u201d  &#8211; Listen to Interview<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F107832683\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia raises military alertness over Syria: sources<\/strong><br \/>\nDOHA\/CAIRO &#8211; 30 August, 2013 &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Arabia, a supporter of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, has raised its level of military alertness in anticipation of a possible Western strike in Syria, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been calling for punitive action against Assad&#8217;s government for a suspected poison gas attack on a Damascus suburb on August 21 that killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s defense readiness has been raised to &#8220;two&#8221; from &#8220;five&#8221;, a Saudi military source who declined to be named told Reuters. &#8220;One&#8221; is the highest level of alert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a must, no one knows what will happen,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The source said other countries in the region, including Jordan, Turkey and Israel, appeared also to have raised their level of military readiness.<\/p>\n<p>A second source said Saudi Arabia&#8217;s defense readiness had been raised last week, and meant that all leave for the armed forces would be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The sources declined to give further details of what a change in alert level would mean, but analysts said it was likely some forces would be moved closer to national borders.<\/p>\n<p>In Kuwait lawmakers have asked their government to inform them about plans for readiness to deal with repercussions of a strike on Syria, Kuwaiti newspapers reported.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah, held an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday, al-Watan reported.<\/p>\n<p>Interior minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Hamad al-Sabah was told to take all necessary measures in case of an emergency that might arise as a result of strikes, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, a major U.S. ally, Qatar and other Sunni Muslim powers back the mainly Sunni rebels battling Assad, who is from Syria&#8217;s minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi&#8217;ite Islam. The rebels have been joined by foreign Sunni jihadis.<\/p>\n<p>Assad enjoys military support from Iran, Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah and among Iraqi Shi&#8217;ites.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/30\/us-syria-crisis-saudi-idUSBRE97T0IS20130830\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D17855&amp;text=Middle+East+Countries+go+on+Military+Alert+as+Dellusional+Obama+tries+to+Top+JFKs+Cuba+Missile+Crisis&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Grayson on Syria: War is \u201cnot the right decision\u201d &#8211; Listen to Interview Saudi Arabia raises military alertness over Syria: sources DOHA\/CAIRO &#8211; 30 August, 2013 &#8211; Reuters (Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Arabia, a supporter of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, has raised its level of military alertness in anticipation of a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17855#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2000],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17859,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions\/17859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}