Saudi Arabia Deploys 30,000 Soldiers To The Iraq Border After Iraqi Forces Abandoned Their Posts

Threat: ISIS has taken a large amount of territory in Iraq and Syria, as this map shows. Militants are already highly active in southern Iraq - particularly around the border with Jordan - so moving to overrun the border with Saudi Arabia is not an unrealistic tactic, especially if it is currently unmanned

Saudi Arabia Places 30,000 Soldiers On Its Border In The Wake Of ISIS Threat 'After 2,500 Iraqi Soldiers Quit Their Posts' -- Daily Mail

* King Abdullah orders all necessary measures to stop an invasion by ISIS
* Sends thousands of troops to border after Iraqis apparently abandon posts
* Saudi Arabia shares 500-mile border with Iraq, where militants have seized numerous towns and cities in campaign to establish a caliphate
* ISIS has urged Muslims to join militants so it can expand territory it controls
* Later Iraq's government denied soldiers fled - claiming border is still manned
* This is despite video purporting to show border guards explaining they left on the unexplained orders of Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Saudi Arabia has placed 30,000 soldiers on its northern border after 2,500 Iraqi soldiers reportedly quit their posts, leaving the country open to the threat of a lightning advance by ISIS militants.

King Abdullah ordered all necessary measures to protect the kingdom against potential 'terrorist threats' as the possibility of ISIS taking yet more territory in the Middle East appeared to increase.

Saudi Arabia - which is the world's top oil exporter - shares a 500-mile border with Iraq, where Sunni insurgents have seized numerous towns and cities in a campaign to establish an Islamic state which has been condemned as too brutal even by Al-Qaeda.

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My Comment: Iraq has denied that their forces have withdrawn from the Saudi border .... but no one is buying it .... least of all the Saudis. What's my take .... Iraq is now disintegrating .... it's soldiers are deserting ... fleeing to save their lives or to be home with their families.