In the first scenario, you had a government (England) setting up a colony and, after many years, the colonists asked to be set free. The government refused and so the colonists attacked the government, after a formal declaration of Independence.
In the second scenario, you had a goverment (House of Saud, etc.) allow another government to put up bases on their land. At some point a group of religious zealots decided they did not like that. Rather than petition their own government for redress, or even to declare their independence from said government, they decided to attack the troops who were essentially invited there by the local authority.
