There aren’t that many official border crossings between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, but with an 850-km border, mostly just desolate desert scanned intermittently by cameras, there doesn’t need to be.
It’s becoming a concern for Saudi Arabia, as ISIS seizes the western portion of the border on the Iraqi side, and seems to be looking to expand across borders into any country they can.
The Saudi military has sent another 2,000 troops, 1,000 of them from the Army and another 1,000 national guardsmen to the border to reinforce in Arar, in the ISIS-hot area. They’ve tried to implement a 10-km deep “no go” area on their side of the border, and have vowed to take “all measures” to protect the country from ISIS.
The Saudi military has a lot of money and advanced equipment, but as with much of the region they don’t have the combat experience ISIS does, which means whether they can actually hold the border if ISIS makes a concerted push is very much an open question.
Build up of Saudis troops on Iraq border is not about Saudis being shocked by ISIS march in Iraq, they are making a line for supporting ISIS in case of the Iranian and Iraqi forces making these barbarians and savages run. In north is the Turkish Erdogan government which did everything for these barbarians to enter Iraq supplying them with hundreds of paid Toyota by Saudis, Qatari and in general UAE. Don't be fooled by Saudis being afraid, ISIS is prince Bandar and Saudis illegitimate sons whom are sent to Syria and Iraq to destroy the integrity of the middle eastern people and Barack Hussein Obama is up to his neck helping out.
I suspect the Saudi move is mainly for show, failure to treat ISIS as a threat would be too revealing.
well with the Monarchy looking moth eaten how many arabians are going to fight for it?
I, for one, would think it funny if the Saudi buildup is really in response to a perceived threat of invasion from ISIS- a band of ne'er-do-wells whose very existence is due to the Saudis themselves. It wouldn't surprise me one bit, though, if the buffer zone is really to back up ISIS when they tweak the tail of the Iranians and the Iranians rain hell on them all along the frontier. If Iran pushes ISIS, the bandits will fall back right into the lap of the Saudis, and you know the Saudis don't want them in their own back yard. Caught between their former benefactors and the Iranian army, ISIS will cease to exist- at least in Iraq.