Now the Saudis tool up for war

[babylonsister]

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1147

Now the Saudis tool up for war
The White House line that Iraq’s extremists are all backed by Iran is a myth, writes robert fox


This weekend, buyers from across the Gulf states and the Middle East will descend on a huge arms fair in Dubai. Sheikhs, emirs, princes and kings will be buying anything from specialised sniper ammunition by the ton, to the highest-tech surveillance gear and even the odd British Aerospace gunboat or Eurofighter.

The Arab world will use the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX), to tool up for a coming confrontation with Iran, and to arm Sunni insurgents to fight Iran's allies in Iraq, the Shia militias.

Even the Bush administration will now admit, under its collective breath of course, that Iraq is in the throes of a full-blown civil war between armed groups of its Sunni and Shia Arab communities, triggered a year ago by the destruction of the al-Laskar mosque in Samara, a revered Shia shrine.

What the American authorities are reluctant to admit, however, is that there are signs that the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia and their allies - including Jordan - have been equipping and training Sunni extremists in Iraq for some time now. Critically, not all the weaponry and munitions have been used against the militants' Shia and Kurdish Iraqi enemies. Some of them - including lethal roadside bombs - have been aimed at US forces.

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[EVDebs]

1. K&R, more should be aware...

[Redstone]

2. Unsupported supposition, right there. Those arms shows happen every year, and it does NOT follow

that anyone is "using it to tool up for a coming confrontation with Iran."

Redstone

[Old and In the Way]

3. The Saud's hate us

The House of Saud love us. It's a love-hate relationship.

[ORDagnabbit]

4. be darn shame if somebody accidently blew up the arms show

too many damn weapons for sale on this planet.

[cassiepriam]

5. It is how American makes its living. :(

[liberal renegade]

7. didn't somebody warn us about the MIC?

[cassiepriam]

8. Yep, but we didn't listen :(

[Amonester]

6. lookie lookie lookie here... Saudis, uh?

Seymour Hersh - Bush redirecting lost $$$ to Al-Qaeda

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3174214

So that's "where" our lost $$$ is going, and going, and... (illegally) gone. :mad: