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morningfog

(18,115 posts) Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:49 AM Jul 2014

Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Thursday, but Baghdad denied this and said the frontier remained under its full control.

The world's top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia shares an 800-km (500-mile) border with Iraq, where Islamic State insurgents and other Sunni Muslim militant groups seized towns and cities in a lightning advance last month.

King Abdullah has ordered all necessary measures to protect the kingdom against potential "terrorist threats", state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/us-saudi-iraq-border-idUSKBN0F80IT20140703