Removing Assad is necessary as a means of isolating Iran.
But if you replace him with Muslim Brotherhood, you haven’t gained much.
In the press coverage of the Saudi intel chief and his meeting with Putin, he pointed to Egypt as the example. They would use the jihadists as a battering ram against Assad but they would not be allowed to rule. He implied that the military coup that removed Morsi was their idea and is what would ultimately happen in Syria if the jihadists won. Do I believe that?
Can you trust the Saudis? Meanwhile, the battering ram is slaughtering Christians.
To build radical Wahhabi Mosques and fund terrorism all over the world, and contribute to US politicians? Yes, but to fly commercial passenger aircraft, not so much.
Caesar told the inquiry team his job was to take pictures of killed detainees though he did not claim to have witnessed executions or torture.
“There could be as many as 50 bodies a day to photograph which required 15 to 30 minutes of work per corpse,” the report said.
The photographs allowed a death certificate to be produced without requiring families to view bodies, and also confirmed that execution orders had been carried out, the report said.
Families of the dead were told that the cause of death was either a “heart attack” or “breathing problems”, it added.
So take pictures so someone could produce a death certificate? I’m sorry but am to assume that whomever it was issuing the certificate knew all the dead by face? The story may be true but if so the whole system there seems really stupid.
>>>In the press coverage of the Saudi intel chief and his meeting with Putin, he pointed to Egypt as the example. They would use the jihadists as a battering ram against Assad but they would not be allowed to rule. He implied that the military coup that removed Morsi was their idea and is what would ultimately happen in Syria if the jihadists won. Do I believe that?
Can you trust the Saudis? Meanwhile, the battering ram is slaughtering Christians.<<<
Do you really think Egypt is pro-Saudi now? Prince Bandar is an opportunist, trying to make a bitter defeat to look like a victory. Every two-bit Egyptian anti-Morsi protester is able to connect dots between MB, AQ, Saudis and Obama.
And who the hug is about to be an obstacle to a jihadist rule once they have an upper hand? Assad’s regime and alikes were that obstacles since WWII, after the British left the area. Not the Saudis for sure. Saudi position is pretty much complicated to say the least. Their central idea in factual support of jihadis is to look like their own and deflect possible jihadi wrath from the Saudi royals.
They are pretty comfortable as soon as Arabs are busy to blame the Jews, America and Russia for their misery, instead of Arab ruling class.
IMO, Saudis went too far but result is still not guaranteed for them.