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Boxerfan

(2,530 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 12:44 PM Jun 2014

McCain tells Saudi' to fund what has become ISIS....

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-saudi-arabia-iraq-syria-bandar/373181/

"Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar,” John McCain told CNN’s Candy Crowley in January 2014. “Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,” the senator said once again a month later, at the Munich Security Conference.

McCain was praising Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services and a former ambassador to the United States, for supporting forces fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham had previously met with Bandar to encourage the Saudis to arm Syrian rebel forces.

But shortly after McCain’s Munich comments, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah relieved Bandar of his Syrian covert-action portfolio, which was then transferred to Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. By mid-April, just two weeks after President Obama met with King Abdullah on March 28, Bandar had also been removed from his position as head of Saudi intelligence—according to official government statements, at “his own request.” Sources close to the royal court told me that, in fact, the king fired Bandar over his handling of the kingdom’s Syria policy and other simmering tensions, after initially refusing to accept Bandar’s offers to resign. (Bandar retains his title as secretary-general of the king’s National Security Council.)
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I hope this gets actuall coverage...It is TREASON after all...

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dballance

(5,756 posts)
4. It should be noted that Bandar and his wife were documented to be associated w/ the 9/11 Saudis
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:18 PM
Jun 2014

The official report about 9/11 documents that Bandar's and his wife were channeling Saudi money to the 9/11 attackers to support them when they were in the US. They channeled the funds though HSBC. That would be the same HSBC that was fined for helping launder drug-money.

nyabingi

(1,145 posts)
16. Bandar was one of the Bush family's buddies
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:48 AM
Jun 2014

and I think he was definitely involved in the planning and financing of the 9/11 attacks. There were also stories that it was Bandar who supplied chemical weapons to the extremists operating in Syria, but these stories were ignored by the American media of course.

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
18. Yep, his nickname is "Bandar Bush."
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:59 AM
Jun 2014

If I'm not mistaken he had free access to the White House and spent time with the Bushes at Camp David. He was part of the family.

According to the records of the investigations he certainly had something to do with financially supporting the Saudi Terrorists that committed 9/11.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
5. oh yes, I want everyone supporting the ISIS and Nusra types out of office, no matter how high
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:44 PM
Jun 2014

do you agree?

chowder66

(8,999 posts)
7. Rachel Maddow reported on this last night
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:16 PM
Jun 2014

referencing the Atlantic Article


Rachel Maddow 06/23/14
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

Video title: Perils of arming rebels playing out in Iraq
Steve Clemons, editor-at-large for the Atlantic, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Saudi Arabia’s support of rebels in Syria ended up bolstering the ISIS extremist group in Iraq, and the important achievement of disposing of Syria’s chemical weapons

starroute

(12,977 posts)
8. That would be the guy affectionately known as "Bandar Bush"
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:21 PM
Jun 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/the-fall-of-the-house-of-saud/304215/?single_page=true

It is on the personal front, however, where Bandar shines. A visit in the early nineties to the summer home of George H.W. Bush, in Kennebunkport, Maine, earned the prince the affectionate family sobriquet "Bandar Bush." Bandar reciprocated by inviting Bush to hunt pheasant on his estate in England. For good measure he also contributed a million dollars to the construction of the Bush Presidential Library, in College Station, Texas. King Fahd sent another million to Barbara Bush's campaign against illiteracy. (He had donated a million dollars to Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign against drugs four years earlier.) Bandar was once Colin Powell's racquetball partner.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
10. Bandar Bush
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:31 PM
Jun 2014

This is what he was called when he was in the USA. Bandar Bush. Seems to have spent lots of time with Dubya at the "ranch" and the rest of the clan everywhere else.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
14. Lets give thanks that we dodged the bullet with him and Palin.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:38 PM
Jun 2014

Just the thought of them in the Oval office is scary.

nyabingi

(1,145 posts)
17. McCain is most certainly a dummy but
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:52 AM
Jun 2014

let's not forget that the Obama administration is still involved in providing support for the extremists fighting against the Syrian government. I know John Kerry assured everyone that whatever American equipment that is reaching Syria is going to "moderates", but use some common sense people - as long as they are fighting to oust Assad, I doubt the CIA and other outfits can a damn about who's firing at Syrian forces.

McCain is getting old and senile, and someone in his family who loves him need to tell him to retire and sit in his rocking chair on the porch.

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