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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Saudi Arabia still insisting on removal of Assad amid peace efforts
2016-02-13
[Iran Press TV] While international negotiators have agreed on a ceasefire and humanitarian access to besieged towns in Syria, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
is still insisting on the removal of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
from power as Riyadh's main goal and has pledged to send special forces to the crisis-hit country.

The agreement was signed on Friday following a meeting of the International Syrian Support Group (ISSG) in the German city of Munich.

Speaking at the 52nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir called Assad the "single most effective magnet for Lions of Islam and faceless myrmidons in the region," claiming that his removal was vital for restoring stability in the country and defeating the Daesh [Islamic State] terrorist group, which has captured parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq.

"That (Assad's ouster) is our objective and we will achieve it," Jubeir said. "Unless and until there is a change in Syria, Daesh [Islamic State] will not be defeated in Syria, period," he argued.
Saudi Arabia is widely believed to be one of the major sponsors of Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist groups fighting against the Syrian government.
Posted by:Fred

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