Saudi Arabia backs US strike against Syria

[Douglas Carpenter]

Source: Al Jazeera

Saudi Arabia has said it is time for the world to do everything it could to prevent aggression against the Syrian people, and that it would back a US strike on Syria if the Syrian people did.

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal made his comments on Sunday as the United States awaits a final decision on strikes against the Syrian government for an alleged chemical gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians.

"We call upon the international community with all its power to stop this aggression against the Syrian people," Faisal said in Cairo, where he was attending a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers to discuss Syria.


Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/20139114581262102.html

[nradisic]

1. No shit?!

We know the people with the seemingly greatest interest to remove Assad is the Saudi Royal family...

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. Saudi Arabia wont stand for human rights violations.

[JEB]

3. I'm sure the Saudis have the capability

thanks to all the $$$$ and hardware they get fro the US. Saudis should DIY.

[DonCoquixote]

4. If any nation deserved bombs and strikes

It would be the nation most directly responsible for 9-11, the one that armed 15 of the 19, and that funded Osama Ben Ladin.

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. Amen!

[Snake Plissken]

5. The folks that brought you 911 would like you to bomb Syria for them

Isn't that special

[go west young man]

14. Great post.

Welcome to DU.

[840high]

31. +2

[dipsydoodle]

6. Well there's a fucking huge surprise.

Did they suggest using box cutters too.

[arcane1]

7. Well how 'bout that.

I don't suppose they volunteered to lead the way?

[Jesus Malverde]

9. A good start would be with a democratic Saudi Arabia...nt

[bunnies]

10. You do it. Have fun. nt

[KansDem]

11. Wait! Aren't they suppose to fly airliners into our tallest buildings...

...and then blame it on Syria?

Maybe they're worried Obama won't be the puppet Bush was...

[Ocelot]

12. Mem'ries...

Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were...



Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were...



Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? could we?



Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
We will remember, whenever we remember...
The way we were...

[daleo]

24. Effective satire.

Nice job.

[burnsei sensei]

13. Where they burn witches, stone adulterers and homosexuals

and then feel just fine.

[Rebellious Republican]

15. There you have it, orders from Americas true handlers!

Members of bin Laden's family and important Saudis are "driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas and then to Washington from where they left the country on a private charter plane when airports reopened three days after the attacks." The flights to Texas and Washington occur before the national air ban is lifted.
The Tampa Tribune reports that on September 13, a Lear jet takes off from Tampa, Florida, carrying a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of the Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan (see August 2001 (G), August 31, 2001, August 15, 2002), as well as the son of a Saudi army commander, and flies to Lexington, Kentucky, where the Saudis own racehorses. They then fly a private 747 out of the country.
Multiple 747s with Arabic lettering on their sides are already there, suggesting another secret assembly point. The Tampa flight left from a private Raytheon hangar. (Raytheon's name keeps coming up in relation to 9/11 (for instance, see September 25, 2001).)
Prince Bandar, Saudi ambassador to the US, helps move the bin Laden family out of the US. Ron Motley, the lead lawyer in a 9/11 lawsuit against many Saudis, points to the flights during the air ban as evidence that Saudis are "protected by the Bush administration" because of "oil." There have been conflicting reports as to whether the FBI interviewed these people before they left the country. Osama bin Laden's half brother, Abdullah bin Laden, stated that even a month after 9/11 his only contact with the FBI was a brief phone call.
The existence of these flights during the air travel ban is now usually referred to as an urban legend.


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[GP6971]

27. Urban Legend???????

Really??????? How absurd!!!!!

[Rebellious Republican]

29. You sure replied to the right post? Otherwise I do not understand what you are

referring to.

[Jefferson23]

16. Oh yea, it's all about their concern for the Syrian people...right. n/t

K&R

[grahamhgreen]

17. More like, Saudi Arabia tells our glorious leaders who to bomb and when to do it.

[rug]

18. Naturally.

Syria is allied with Iran. Iran is the Saudi's greatest competitor.

[7962]

19. Love to see Russia's response if S.A. actually did it on their own.

THAT would be interesting.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. The Saudis want Syria to fall into the hands of Sunni extremists? Well,...

[dballance]

21. Well then, You're local and have just about unlimited resources financially

So, Saudi Arabia, if you think something needs to be done then you feel free to do so.

Why the USA, thousands of miles away and in no danger of having its borders or people endangered by Syria should step up and do some action is beyond me.

It's your fricking neighborhood there in the Middle East. You guys step up and patrol it and defend the people.

If the Syrian regime is gassing people then yes, it's as horrible as Hitler. So get off your local asses and do something.

I'm really very tired of the world expectation that the USA should be the moral, physical leader of the world.

If you actually know history the USA didn't win WWII. The Russians beat the crap out of the Nazis.

[durablend]

22. You're expecting them to spend THEIR money

When there's a willing sap (US) who's more than happy to do it?

[Billy Love]

26. Saudi Arabia is rich enough to do it, but extremely lazy to do it.

U.S. should refuse to strike unless Saudi Arabia leads the fucking way. U.S. should consult with Saudi Arabia, but should refuse to send out troops in harm's way.

It's a region problem, and Arab League agrees. U.S. military does not need to apply to Syria at this time.

[GP6971]

28. Saudi Arabia refuses

to take the lead in anything in the region having to do with human rights........it's all about them and protecting the extended royal family. Saudi Arabia was my first trip outside of the US in the late 70s. I'm sure very little has changed

[Douglas Carpenter]

33. I was there off and on from 1986 to 2011. They have a lot more shopping malls and lots of cable TV

That has brought in considerably more awareness of the outside world. I suppose it has liberalized in some ways. The newspapers can be critical to an extent of the government bureaucracy and even the religious figures provided nothing they say that implies a criticism of the royal family or of the strictest form of Islamic belief itself. I would have to say that knowledge about the world is now considerably developed compared to when I first visited Jeddah in 1986. Fudruckers hamburgers, Hagen Daz Ice Cream and Starbuck's coffee are now available in malls in Jeddah, Riyadh and Al Khobar.

[daleo]

23. Backs how?

Money? Planes? Missiles? Good wishes?

[Billy Love]

25. Lead the fucking way, Saudi Arabia.

No need for the U.S. to take the lead on the strike.

It's your damn region's problem, and Arab League has approved the strike without needing the United States.

Do it, Saudi Arabia. Billions of dollars in military aid was sent to you for the last 30+ years. Use it!

[JackRiddler]

30. That's great, one of the few regimes in the world...

that is worse than Assad's in Syria.

By what logic does one justify bombing Syria and not S.A.? Not that I'd be for either, of course.

[Nihil]

34. +1 (n/t)

[DissidentVoice]

32. They have the best, mostly U.S., military hardware their vast oil wealth can buy

So why haven't THEY used it against Assad?

His clapped-out Soviet MiG's (the ones he has left after the Israelis chopped the Syrian Air Force up in 1982) are no match for the RSAF's F-15's, F-5's and British Tornados.

Wouldn't it be in THEIR place to take a fellow Arab state to task?