CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is discouraging Arab nations from sending financial support to even moderate opposition Sunni groups in Syria.
He fears the aid could be used to help the growing insurgency in Iraq.
Kerry says he delivered that message to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during their meeting Sunday in Cairo.
Kerry says he plans to make the same case to other leaders in Sunni-dominated Arab states over the next several days.
Kerry says the region’s security is facing a critical moment as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant gains ground in Iraq.
The group has taken over parts of Syria in what is rapidly deteriorating into a cross-border war.
He’ll urge Arab states to work together to defeat the group.
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Are the Saudis listening? Do they give a sh*t?
It’s a bit late for that, not to mention a deception since we were all in on making Syria a battleground.
Recently fired Prince Bandar bin Sultan, former US Ambassador extraordinaire, gift-er of a Rolls to Colin Powell and now former Saudi intelligence chief took to funding ‘good’ Salafi terrorists Jabhat al-Nusrain, in Syria. Who had along with ISIS pledged allegiance to the good doctor Ayman al-Zawahirin who you should remember. Then ISIS went it’s own way, including they say getting training in Jordan from US special ops. Well all a tangled web trying to figure out why there are no good terrorists left so Kerry is trying to call off the whole thing. Too late.
They did militarize the Syrian opposition and the rest is history. A country destroyed with maybe 10 million refugees.
About the only sadder statement was by Obama this week urging and end to Muslim sectarian divisions. Does he not know that sectarian division, including wiping Shia Islam from the face of the earth has been the Saudi project since the monarchies founding?
I suppose shamelessness is a must for US secretaries of state, but Kerry is remarkable. For two years now the US has been sending money, supplies and weapons – all of which are fungible commodities – to various Syrian opposition groups, along with training some of them in Jordan, and giving the nod to the Saudis and Qataris to arm and fund them as well. (Not to mention that the failed military of our putative allies in Iraq has now handed over many tons of US-supplied equipment to the insurgents.) The genie is out of the bottle and the parrot is deceased.