I'll be dipped in dog s**t. This guy's been completely out of public view for so long that it was only natural to assume an Iranian sleeper team had turned him into worm chow...
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.
Prince Bandar--for two decades one of the most influential
Actually, the Saudis are all about making the world safe for the brand of Islam that gave us 3,000 corpses and a smoking hole in Manhattan on 9/11/2001. Oh, and by the way, let's not forget that Bandar has at least a dotted-line relationship to that little bit of unpleasantness...
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, according to Arab, American and European officials.
No truth to the rumor that a large white cat is always seated in his lap...
Not everyone in the Obama administration is comfortable with the new U.S. partnership with the Saudis on Syria.
Well, at least not until Bandar's checks to OFA, the DNC and Ogabe's Vacation Club account clear.
Some officials said they fear it carries the same risk of spinning out of control as an earlier project in which Prince Bandar was involved--the 1980s CIA program of secretly financing the Contras in Nicaragua against a leftist government. The covert program led to criminal convictions for U.S. operatives and international rebukes.
"This has the potential to go badly," one former official said, citing the risk weapons will end up in the hands of violent anti-Western Islamists.
Methinks the former official was from a previous administration. To Team Ogabe and the rogues' gallery that put them in office, stuff that goes boom being delivered to anti-Western crazies isn't a bug, it's a key design feature.