Iran-Contra Redux? Prince Bandar Heads Secret Saudi-CIA Effort to Aid Syrian Rebels, Topple Assad

[Coyotl]

Iran-Contra Redux? Prince Bandar Heads Secret Saudi-CIA Effort to Aid Syrian Rebels, Topple Assad
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/6/iran_contra_redux_prince_bandar_heads

The Wall Street Journal recently revealed new details about how Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud — Saudi’s former ambassador to the United States — is leading the effort to prop up the Syrian rebels. Intelligence agents from Saudi Arabia, the United States, Jordan and other allied states are working at a secret joint operations center in Jordan to train and arm hand-picked Syrian rebels. The Journal also reports Prince Bandar has been jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime. "Really what he’s doing is he’s reprising a role that he played in the 1980s when he worked with the Reagan administration to arrange money and arms for mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan and also worked with the CIA in Nicaragua to support the Contras," says Wall Street Journal reporter Adam Entous. "So in many ways this is a very familiar position for Prince Bandar, and it’s amazing to see the extent to which veterans of the CIA were excited to see him come back because, in the words of a diplomat who knows Bandar, he brings the Arabic term wasta, which means under-the-table clout. You know his checks are not going to bounce and that he’ll be able to deliver the money from the Saudis."

[link:http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/9/6/us_russian_tensions_heighten_over_syria_roots_of_conflict_stem_from_nato_bombing_of_libya|
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[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Anything to suck us in.

[Coyotl]

2. Your next post is # 10,000

[louis-t]

3. Good. Let THEM pay for it.

We should stay out of it.

[enough]

5. According to John Kerry, they are eager to pay for it, "the whole thing."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11781543

[avaistheone1]

4. Prince Bandar Bush certainly gets around.

[Coyotl]

6. Especially when it comes to doing illegal stuff for American Presidents.

[NightWatcher]

7. you mean this isn't about some kids choking on gas?

Whodathunkit?

Oh wait, tons of us know what this conflict is about. The Saudis and Israel want us to invade to stir shit with their enemies without having to deal with Iran, China, or Russia....

Are you sure it's not about the conflicting reports of a relative few kids being killed?