Report of heavy gunfire at Saudi King's Palace in Riyadh

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FIVR

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You guys don't seem to understand how this works. During a coup, government friendly media will suppress the fact that a coup is occurring because otherwise people will join the coup.


It's like you people were born yesterday. You believe anything Al-Jazeera or CNN tells you, lol. Did you forget the Iraq war? Did you forget the coup in Turkey?


Oh wait never mind. I just saw a clip of @Victorian Gray and he says everything will be fine!

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You guys don't seem to understand how this works. During a coup, government friendly media will suppress the fact that a coup is occurring because otherwise people will join the coup.


It's like you people were born yesterday. You believe anything Al-Jazeera or CNN tells you, lol. Did you forget the Iraq war? Did you forget the coup in Turkey?


Oh wait never mind. I just saw a clip of @Victorian Gray and he says everything will be fine!

baghdad%2Bbob.jpg

Try harder. You're really not earning your paycheck.
 

OutHouse

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You guys don't seem to understand how this works. During a coup, government friendly media will suppress the fact that a coup is occurring because otherwise people will join the coup.


It's like you people were born yesterday. You believe anything Al-Jazeera or CNN tells you, lol. Did you forget the Iraq war? Did you forget the coup in Turkey?


Oh wait never mind. I just saw a clip of @Victorian Gray and he says everything will be fine!

baghdad%2Bbob.jpg

dude, you are a train wreck.
 

Amused

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You guys don't seem to understand how this works. During a coup, government friendly media will suppress the fact that a coup is occurring because otherwise people will join the coup.


It's like you people were born yesterday. You believe anything Al-Jazeera or CNN tells you, lol. Did you forget the Iraq war? Did you forget the coup in Turkey?


Oh wait never mind. I just saw a clip of @Victorian Gray and he says everything will be fine!

baghdad%2Bbob.jpg

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IronWing

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The spiny lizard just crawled out from under its rock for the first time this year. I think it has something to do with the coup. I'll go ask it.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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You guys don't seem to understand how this works. During a coup, government friendly media will suppress the fact that a coup is occurring because otherwise people will join the coup.


It's like you people were born yesterday. You believe anything Al-Jazeera or CNN tells you, lol. Did you forget the Iraq war? Did you forget the coup in Turkey?


Oh wait never mind. I just saw a clip of @Victorian Gray and he says everything will be fine!

baghdad%2Bbob.jpg

It could be Kim's flying diesel sub powered by unicorn farts.
 
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allisolm

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CIA doesn't call WSJ reporters and force them to self-immolate and destroy their credibility like this unless it's a SERIOUS problem ever.
Fixed that for you.

Let's see. So far I've read that this is

1 A coup
2. A coup by a general
3. A coup by a colonel
4. An attack by Houtis
5. A single gunman outside the residence
6. A drone

All we're missing is aliens.
 

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Fixed that for you.

Let's see. So far I've read that this is

1 A coup
2. A coup by a general
3. A coup by a colonel
4. An attack by Houtis
5. A single gunman outside the residence
6. A drone

All we're missing is aliens.

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You were given a courtesy warning to add comment but you failed to do so. Image only posts are forbidden in P&N, for what I would hope are obvious reasons. In this forum, please use your words.

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allisolm

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You guys don't seem to understand how this works. During a coup, government friendly media will suppress the fact that a coup is occurring because otherwise people will join the coup.

Are the Riyadh police "government friendly media", because their official statement is that it was a drone.
 

FIVR

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Are the Riyadh police "government friendly media", because their official statement is that it was a drone.

Of course they are!


The only way to know what is going on in Saudi Arabia right now is to be Saudi. Their government has shut down all non-governemtn controlled social media (including saudi twitter) to prevent word of the coup from escaping.


Right now all that is known is that there is an ongoing coup and some Saudi royal is being transported from Riyadh to Narjan. No idea what his injuries are or what happened.
https://twitter.com/PushBackNow/status/987830191144751104

It will all come out in the next week. Coups like this are always confusing in the first 24-48 hours. Look at what happened in turkey.
 

FIVR

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US media cannot be trusted. UK media cannot be trusted. Saudi media cannot be trusted.


We will have to wait until MBS shows his face. I think we will all revisit this thread later and either I will be found to be correct, or wrong. I'm pretty confident that there was at least an attempted coup tonight tho, and i've seen no evidence to the contrary. Just bagdad-bob reports from the usual pro-saudi suspects.
 

FIVR

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One thing is for sure though, it wasn't a "drone" lol. Just looking at the videos that were posted on twitter before saudi government shut it down and it is obvious that there is return fire coming at the security forces. Believing the "drone" argument simply makes you look like a credulous fool.
 

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The return fire thing is pretty strange to hang whatever credibility he has onto. His statement requires the security forces being on one spot. Who the hell deploys that way? Maybe cults or something. More likely the drone was moving and as it did others went for it. It's was a hell of a tiny coup attempt otherwise.
 

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Apparently, this is a United States response to Saudi Arabia-Russia getting closer. While, Trump is basically returning the nation to pre-Obama relations with Saudi Arabia. He, Trump, via Trump Org has been filing lawsuits for fiscal gain against the royal fam in SA.
 

brycejones

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Apparently, this is a United States response to Saudi Arabia-Russia getting closer. While, Trump is basically returning the nation to pre-Obama relations with Saudi Arabia. He, Trump, via Trump Org has been filing lawsuits for fiscal gain against the royal fam in SA.

Crazy person taken in by Russian troll. Congrats fivr you caught one.