Terrorists and Blowback

[Mordae]

 The aim of this thread was to present originally to look at the funding of ISIS. a bit of snooping found a couple of links between everyones favourite warmonger, John McCain and ISIS, then it occurred to me that McCain has shown up in one form or another, at close to every attempted coup in the last couple of years (Libya, Syria, Ukraine etc al). So either he's so obnoxious that revolts break out within a five mile radius, he's implementing a form of US foreign policy (which is probably illegal for a Senator), or he's following a set script.

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.)...

If the allegations made in this article are correct, it shows a disturbing lack of understanding from the US in regards to history, culture and just plain common sense.

[Rogue]

A lack of understanding from the US would not be so surprising. Interesting links..

[Rockhopper]

John McCain is the proverbial toadstool, appearing in all kinds of strange places. Nothing in the linx surprises me!

Tim.

[Lenzabi]

The ones making policy for my country these past few decades have done so for the interests of their corporation based friends and money under the table suppliers.

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