London. .- More than 10,000 security forces have begun their deployment in the northeast of Saudi Arabia to contain more than 20,000 people are expected to take to the streets over the next week to demand an end to institutional corruption the country and, if necessary, to overthrow the Saud dynasty, which ruled there for 300 years.
The police presence will be especially active in the region of Qatif, which concentrates most of the country's Shiite population, and organizers of protests have already begun distributing photographs of armored police vehicles on their way to alert the population. The highway to the northeast are now virtually collapsed by the transit of hundreds of troops on board buses as they prepare to repel what Saudi Arabia has been called the Revolution Hunayn - referring to the great battle fought on the year 630 between Muhammad and the Bedouins - the national equivalent of the protests in the Arab world.
Riyadh authorities continue with emphasis, in this sense, the developments on the nearby island of Bahrain, ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty. As reported by Middle East correspondent for British daily 'The Independent', King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned the government bareiní neighbor that if he is unable to contain the demonstrations will not hesitate to send their own forces so that it so. 
The police presence will be especially active in the region of Qatif, which concentrates most of the country's Shiite population, and organizers of protests have already begun distributing photographs of armored police vehicles on their way to alert the population. The highway to the northeast are now virtually collapsed by the transit of hundreds of troops on board buses as they prepare to repel what Saudi Arabia has been called the Revolution Hunayn - referring to the great battle fought on the year 630 between Muhammad and the Bedouins - the national equivalent of the protests in the Arab world.
Riyadh authorities continue with emphasis, in this sense, the developments on the nearby island of Bahrain, ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty. As reported by Middle East correspondent for British daily 'The Independent', King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned the government bareiní neighbor that if he is unable to contain the demonstrations will not hesitate to send their own forces so that it so.
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