More indicators that the Obama administration is using the pretext of fighting one set of Islamic State terrorists in a way to help support another set of Islamic State terrorists—those fighting Syria’s Bashar Assad—recently came out.
Back on September 10, Reuters reported that
Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of President Barack Obama’s broad strategy to combat Islamic State militants who have taken over parts of Syria and Iraq…. Obama announced he had authorized stepped-up U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and for the first time would extend the aerial assault into Syria, where he also vowed to beef up support for moderate rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (emphasis added).
However, according to Arabic sources, Khalid bin Bandar, chief of Saudi intelligence, “Any Syrian fighter who will enter Saudi land is, in the end, from the Islamic jihadi camps. There is no presence of any armed moderate nationalist or democratic movement inside Syria.”
Accordingly, the head of intelligence warned that allowing any Syrian rebels access to Saudi land and training camps “would pose a great danger to the internal security” of the Arabian kingdom.
And in regards to U.S. announcements that Saudi Arabia had agreed to provide training camps to the “moderate” Syrian rebels, Bandar said that no final decision was ever given.
jewdog says
In a way, I like the Saudis, in the sense that despite being ostensibly Sharia-compliant, they don’t let their religious preferences get in the way of a pragmatic and often realistic assessment of Islam, especially when it comes to saving their own skin. I’d sooner vote for Bandar than Obama – he’s no moonbat.
Anushirvan says
Way too optimistic, jewdog.
Saudi Arabia has this tedious knack of trying to cart off their own dissidents to foreign war theaters as Jihad fighters, with the delusional expectation they will do their bidding in the long run. A classical example of the geopolitical adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Until those “tools” start pursuing their own agendas, that is. We’ve seen it before with al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The bulk of these are Salafists tend to be anti-establishment, that is, critics of the official Wahhabi clergy, which they consider totally beholden to the Saudi monarchy. Clearly, this is anathema in their mind, because the monarchy does not represent a legitimate rule in their opinion, seeing as it’s not a universal Caliphate. Thus, it becomes imperative for the Saudis to get rid of those elements asap, preferably before they start planning terrorist attacks on Saudi soil against Westerners living there or US military bases, which has happened before in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
They have to save their own skin to avoid these things happening again. Although they are scared of IS, the Saudis have helped things along by carting those elements off to Syria and Iraq in the first place and they know this will come back to haunt them in the near future.
Quite seriously, I don’t think the Saudis would have bothered to support these so-called moderates / democrats in the first place, I rather think they would have supported hard-core Salafists from the get-go. Things seem to be getting a bit pear-shaped for the Saudis now and they are getting a bit panicky, so I think they try to apply some damage control and dissimulation in order to divert attention away from their own devious scheming.
Scared of a backlash, probably !
They can claim to have been supporting “moderates” all along as much as they can, but I don’t think the Saudis are a credible source anyway ! Rather put the blame on someone else and claim they have supported democratic opposition in Syria from the start. None of it rings true in my mind. The Saudis simply want to save face, so they want to attribute the intransigence of IS to outsiders, preferably the Americans themselves ! That’s the kind of “allies” they are: totally untrustworthy !
Remember Taqqiyya !
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
… Sharia-compliant, they don’t let their religious preferences get in the way of a pragmatic and often realistic assessment of Islam…
In other words, this is the good Moslem. The good Moslem is not a Unicorn in a vast her of a billion Unicorns, it’s a Moslem in power who, in his personal self interest is willing to sell Islam out for power. The Hold Prophet did that, and look at how well he did, so why not?
The bad news is that there are no Unicorns, only Moslems awaiting possible activation. The good news is that there are Moslem dictators, kleptocrats who make sense by doing some measures to hold their fake Unicorns in check to maintain dictatorial power and wealth.
profitsbeard says
If they follow the Koran, they are all potentially set for becoming jihadis.
“Sudden Jihad Syndrome” (a phrase Robert has wryly coined ) is the potential default state of all Muslims.
Which is why Islam should be outlawed as a terrorist ideology and all Muslims deported to Islamic lands as potential terrorists if their adherence to this Death Cult trumps their allegiance to the country they live in.
Let them swear an oath that it does not.
Taqiyya [ or sanctified tactical deceit], of course, being a troublesome aspect in any oath a Muslim takes, of course.
And if their oath turns out to be a lie, deport them then.
mortimer says
There it is. Obama was TOTALLY duped!
Obama is a dumb dupe. Too bad he can’t be impeached. He’s a useful idiot of the jihadists.
Bamaguje says
“…the head of (Saudi) intelligence warned that allowing any Syrian rebels access to Saudi land and training camps would pose a great danger to the internal security of the Arabian kingdom”
So it’s alright for Saudis to fund Jihadist mayhem in Syria, but they don’t want Jihadism in Saudi Arabia
Custos Custodum says
It has been obvious for many months (as discussed on this site) that Obama’s real aim is to hand ALL OF SYRIA to Islamic State, in cahoots with Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman regime in Turkey.
Predictable massacres and rapes of Alawites, Druze, Christians etc. in rump Syria are a WELCOME side effect of further ISIS empowerment to the nihilist power worshipers in the Soros/Obama machine, “a feature, not a bug.”
Ironically, in 2014, we are reverting to a situation where Russia must be relied upon to use its influence to guarantee well-being of (Orthodox) Christians in the former Ottoman empire.
Personally, Obama has long abandoned the pretense that he is a “Christian”. (Where and when was he baptized?) In his speeches and actions, Obama now all but admits that his allegiance and sympathy are with Muslims world-wide.
Obama quotes:
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
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We seek an independent, a viable and CONTIGUOUS Palestinian state as the homeland of the Palestinian people, …
Salah says
“It has been obvious for many months (as discussed on this site) that Obama’s real aim is to hand ALL OF SYRIA to Islamic State, in cahoots with Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman regime in Turkey. ”
You’re absolutely right.
ISIS is the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood/Erdogan/Qatar alliance. And as we all know, the Muslim Brotherhood “advisors” are the real masters in the W.H. (Obama is merely their puppet.)
eib says
I have made the same conclusion for years. The Saudis are so convinced of our foolishness that now they tell us the truth, confident that we are secure in our lies.
katarzyna says
“Putin: Instead of exceptionalism, USA sows chaos in the world”
“Instead of conflict regulation, we have their escalation; instead of stable sovereign states, we have growing chaos; instead of democracy, we have the support of doubtful audiences – from neo-Nazis to Islamic radicals.”
According to Putin, the West supports Islamists “to achieve certain goals, and then they burn fingers on that.”
Elisheva14 says
Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of trying to “tailor the world exclusively to their needs” since the end of the Cold War, using economic pressure and military force and often supporting extremist groups to achieve their goals.
He cited the wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria as examples of flawed moves that have led to chaos and left Washington and its allies “fighting against the results of their own policy.” “They are throwing their might to remove the risks they have created themselves, and they are paying an ever increasing price,” Putin said.
Jack Gordon says
Not surprising. Just the latest installment in Barack al-Hussein ibn-Obama’s master plan.