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Thursday, April 5, 2012

''The Dangerous Policy of Letting the Saudis Call the Tune In the Middle East''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'
By Joshua Jacobs

'If there was any doubt as to Saudi intentions in Syria, that veil was ripped away on Sunday at the Istanbul "Friends of Syria" conference. The Saudis and their Gulf allies spearheaded an effort to create a formalized pay structure for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and privately ruminated on the possibility of setting up official supply conduits to forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This decision went much further than what the West, or even neighboring Turkey, seemed willing to embrace."

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