Rice & Admin & Saudis Embarking On Coordinated Campaign Of Covert Action Against Iran

[kpete]

Report: Saudis, US sponsoring covert action against Iran Michael Roston
Published: Monday May 7, 2007


The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East region to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.

David Samuels, in a lengthy article on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East, reports that the US is promoting a campaign against Iran that includes covert action.

Since last Fall, he writes, "Rice and her colleagues in the administration decided to embark on a daring and risky third course: a coordinated campaign, directed with the help of the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates....The bill for the covert part of this activity, which has involved funding sectarian political movements and paramilitary groups in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, is said to amount to more than $300 million. It is being paid by Saudi Arabia and other concerned Gulf states, for whom the combination of a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq and a nuclear-armed Iran means trouble."

Samuels suggests that Iran has already faced a variety of internal attacks as a consequence of this covert program.

more at:http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200706/condoleezza-rice
via:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Saudis_US_sponsoring_covert_action_0507.html

[ananda]

1. There was never a morning in America.

Everything about Reagan was an illusion.

He was a horrible person and it was his admin
that started all this corporofascist dictatorial
madness.

[Hestia]

2. Come hell or high water, we (our children) will be in some sort

of oil conflict in the ME. When, when will this shit stop? Every dadgum day we are reading of some sort of new nefarious deal going on in the WH, all paid for by the taxpayer. Most days I just want to say stop the world I want to get off!

[snappyturtle]

3. This is scary:

via Rawstory the following:

The Redirection by Seymour Hersh

The key players behind the redirection are Vice-President Dick Cheney, the deputy national-security adviser Elliott Abrams, the departing Ambassador to Iraq (and nominee for United Nations Ambassador), Zalmay Khalilzad, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national-security adviser. While Rice has been deeply involved in shaping the public policy, former and current officials said that the clandestine side has been guided by Cheney. (Cheney’s office and the White House declined to comment for this story; the Pentagon did not respond to specific queries but said, “The United States is not planning to go to war with Iran.”)

I just saw cheney and lynn at WH greeting the Queen so I know where he is today. But, I thought I heard last week that last Friday Cheney was going to Egypt and other ME nations??? Did anyone else hear this? At the time I wondered why HE was going and not condi.

K&R