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Crown prince’s Damascus ties leading to open Saudi-Syrian alliance | ||||
2003-11-26 | ||||
From Geostrategy-Direct When is GW gonna admit that SA is a real enemy? What’s the deal here? A new report says Saudi Arabia has been a major contributor to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. This includes Saudi investment in Syria and in Syrian-controlled Lebanon. RB link here. In return, Syria has prepared special forces that could be called upon to back up unreliable Saudi security forces and ultimately replace U.S. troops in the kingdom. "This open alliance between an Arab nationalist Saudi monarch and a terror-sponsoring Damascus regime a marriage of money and muscle cemented by family ties is likely to endure for the foreseeable future," a report by the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin stated. "Tested by near-continuous engagement in several Arab-Israeli wars, vigorous internal policing, and action in Lebanon, Syrian troops contrast sharply with the inexperienced and largely inefficient Saudi military," the report stated.
Is there anything that the Saudis do themselves?
Where the Saudis dished up a few "guilty" chaps in a vain attempt to pacify the US. Saudi Arabia refused to cooperate with an FBI investigation of Khobar. "Known as a pan-Arabist nationalist and markedly less fond of the West than his half-brothers, Crown Prince Abdullah may well draw ever closer to his wife’s Syrian family as king," the report said. "Under Saudi succession rules, King Abdullah will have exclusive rights to name a successor and it is not unlikely that he may pick his Syrian-Saudi son rather than the presumed third in line, Prince Sultan." The Saudis go down and 60% of the funding is dried up. | ||||
Posted by:Alaska Paul |
#3 BTW - I like the numbering of comments - I hit the "end" button and when it gets in the 30's and 40's I know Murat, NMM, or stevey |
Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-26 9:07:58 PM |
#2 That's the other end of the deal. |
Posted by: Fred 2003-11-26 9:03:29 PM |
#1 Whatever happened to the Pakastanis giving nuclear cover to the Saudis for $$$? Now it is the Syrians providing muscle (ala gangsters). And Iran brings in the Hezbella to keep their own population under control. None of these governments |
Posted by: SamIII 2003-11-26 5:55:17 PM |