Report: Saudis, US sponsoring covert action against Iran

[RamboLiberal]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Saudis_US_sponsoring_covert_action_0507.html

The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East region to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.

David Samuels, in a lengthy article on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East, reports that the US is promoting a campaign against Iran that includes covert action.

Since last Fall, he writes, "Rice and her colleagues in the administration decided to embark on a daring and risky third course: a coordinated campaign, directed with the help of the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates....The bill for the covert part of this activity, which has involved funding sectarian political movements and paramilitary groups in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, is said to amount to more than $300 million. It is being paid by Saudi Arabia and other concerned Gulf states, for whom the combination of a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq and a nuclear-armed Iran means trouble."

Samuels suggests that Iran has already faced a variety of internal attacks as a consequence of this covert program.

Atlantic Article http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200706/condoleezza-rice

[LynnTheDem]

1. And yet some Americans still wonder "why do they hate us?"

Gee...maybe because we're the biggest terrorist on the block & have been for decades?