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In reply to the discussion: Remember Prince Bandar 'Bush'? [View all]reusrename
(1,716 posts)26. Yep, he's trying to topple Assad.
Officials inside the Central Intelligence Agency knew that Saudi Arabia was serious about toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when the Saudi king named Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud to lead the effort.
They believed that Prince Bandar, a veteran of the diplomatic intrigues of Washington and the Arab world, could deliver what the CIA couldn't: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html
They believed that Prince Bandar, a veteran of the diplomatic intrigues of Washington and the Arab world, could deliver what the CIA couldn't: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html
Some folks are starting to implicate him directly in the gas attacks:
The article co-authored by a veteran AP reporter, said interviews with doctors, residents, anti-government forces and their families in Ghouta suggest the terrorists in question received chemical weapons via Saudi spymaster Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud.
The report quoted the father of a militant as saying that his son and 12 others were killed inside a tunnel used to store weapons supplied by a Saudi militant leader, known as Abu Ayesha.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/30/321260/syria-militants-use-saudisupplied-gas/
The report quoted the father of a militant as saying that his son and 12 others were killed inside a tunnel used to store weapons supplied by a Saudi militant leader, known as Abu Ayesha.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/30/321260/syria-militants-use-saudisupplied-gas/
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He just told Putin: Play ball or we'll send more Chechen (AQ) terrorists to the Olympics....
Junkdrawer
Aug 2013
#3
Tip of the hat to CATHERINA? I posted that info TUESDAY. This illustrates agendas very nicely.
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#8
No, this speaks to the need for some to cling to their bias and stick to their narrative
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#24
No he isn't. He's closer to a combo of a Director of National Intelligence and National
MADem
Aug 2013
#23
Well, the bottom line is this--he's not just some corporate asshole. He's an integral
MADem
Aug 2013
#29
I'm not "pushing" anything--but calling a government official, one who holds not one, but
MADem
Aug 2013
#31
Not surprising then that Al Queda is a big part of the 'rebel army' in Syria. He
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#9
And the al-Sauds continue their career as human blights against the people of the middle east
Scootaloo
Aug 2013
#15
Some folks? You mean the Iranians? He hates them and they hate him--surprise, surprise!
MADem
Aug 2013
#32
darn--and I was really hoping he had been relegated to the jail cell he so richly merits.
niyad
Aug 2013
#40
The House of Saud has accepted his resignation as spymaster and Syrian policy-maker n/t
bobthedrummer
Apr 2014
#44