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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 CNNs 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 Arabias intelligence services and a former ambassador to the United States, for supporting forces fighting Bashar al-Assads 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 McCains Munich comments, Saudi Arabias 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 intelligenceaccording 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 kingdoms Syria policy and other simmering tensions, after initially refusing to accept Bandars offers to resign. (Bandar retains his title as secretary-general of the kings National Security Council.)
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I hope this gets actuall coverage...It is TREASON after all...
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)msongs
(67,128 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)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)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)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)do you agree?
Initech
(99,881 posts)chowder66
(8,999 posts)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 Arabias support of rebels in Syria ended up bolstering the ISIS extremist group in Iraq, and the important achievement of disposing of Syrias chemical weapons
starroute
(12,977 posts)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.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)We have a population, or at least a media, that suffers from amnesia.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)nikto
(3,284 posts)Try him, convict him, and put him before a firing squad.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Just the thought of them in the Oval office is scary.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)nyabingi
(1,145 posts)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.