IRAQ CALLS ON UN TO
HOLD SAUDI ARABIA ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAVE OF TERROR ATTACKS
nsnbc : UN Secretary General Ban Kyi-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, where the two touched on the wave of terrorism that has cost the lives of 640 over the first 17 days of 2014. Al-Maliki held Saudi Arabia and Qatar accountable for sponsoring terrorism in Iraq and the UN Secretary General considers reviewing Iraqi reports with the UN Security Council.
The Turkish Aydinlik Daily (AD) reports, that
confession of an Al-Qaeda member to the Iraqi security services personally implicated the head
of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, Prince Bandar bin Sultan in the
deadly wave of terrorism.
Discussing the Saudi support of
terrorists in Iraq with the UN Secretary General, the Iraqi P.M. stressed that
Iraq had previously notified the UN Security Council about the Saudi and Qatari state-sponsorship of
terrorism in Iraq, and referred to two previous UN Resolutions which were condemning the two countries for their
financial and intelligence support of terrorist groups, reports AD.
The Iraqi Sumariya News reports that a commander of the Al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, who was captured during an anti-terrorism operation in western Iraq, confessed that he had received USD 150 million from Saudi Arabia to organize an armed insurgency in Iraq.
Sumariya News quotes the Iraqi M.P. Ali Nassaf as saying that the money mentioned in the captured Al-Qaeda commander’s confession is not the first incident that proves Saudi Arabia’s overt support of terrorism. Nassaf said:
”We have plenty of evidence regarding Saudi Arabia and Qatar,
actively supporting terrorism. According to our information, the Saudi
administration in particular, is trying to sabotage the execution of the
process of political settlement in Iraq”.
“The terrorist structures which became the
target of military operations of the Iraqi Armed Forces, are supported by the
Saudis themselves. Another incident erupted during the arrest of Ahmed al-Albani. His guards, who are members of terrorist
groups, opened fire on security officials who came with a court order to detain
him. Saudi Arabia has also granted political asylum to the former Vice
President Tariq Hashimi, who was found guilty of terrorism”.
The Iraqi administration’s demand
that UN Secretary General Ban Kyi-moon refers the Saudi and Qatari
state-sponsorship of terrorism to the UN Security Council and Iraqi claims to
that regard, are supported by overwhelming evidence.
In December 2012, nsnbc international
reported that Saudi Arabia had reactivated old smuggling routes from
Saudi Arabia to Iraq, starting in the al-Anbar province. The activation of the
route began, according to Saudi officials already during the early stages of
the war on Syria, which began in early 2011. In 2012 however, Saudi Arabia
began increasingly to also support terrorists who would not smuggle weapons and
equipment to Syria via Iraq, but who began a series of terrorist attacks in
Iraq in an attempt to destabilize the government by creating sectarian
violence.
In October 2013, nsnbc international
issued a detailed report about the chemical weapons attack in the
Damascus suburb of East Ghouta, on 21 August 2013. The report details,
among others, that the attack was carried out by Liwa-al-Islam, and on the
direct orders of Liwa-al-Islam supreme commander, Zahran Alloush.
Zahran Alloush has been working for
the then Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Turki al-Faisal in both Afghanistan
and Yemen in the 1980s.
Since the 1990s, Alloush was
involved in the Salafist – Wahabbist terrorist networks in Syria, which led to
his arrest by Syrian intelligence. He was released in early of 2011, when the Assad administration granted
a general amnesty. Immediately after his March 2011 release from
prison, Zahran Alloush began receiving substantial funds and weapons from Saudi
intelligence, which enabled him to establish Liwa-al-Islam as a de facto
Saudi Arabia sponsored mercenary brigade under the auspices of the Saudi
Interior Ministry.
With the first reports about Saudi
and Qatari smuggling via the al-Anbar province emerging in 2011, and the first
public Iraqi complaints emerging in December 2012, the UN Secretary General,
Ban Kyi-moon and the UN Security Council have had more than a year to afford a
tangible response. In an interview with the Lebanese al-Mayyadeen satellite
network, the Iraqi P.M. described the situation in the following words:
” Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are meddling to
topple the Syrian government are now doing the same meddling to topple the
Iraqi regime. Their goal is overthrowing the Iraqi government. Their goal is overthrowing the Iraqi ruling system
and not overthrowing me”.
Several analysts warned that the apparent “diplomatic cold air” between Saudi Arabia and the USA is nothing but “thin air”,or the application of an evolved Syria war strategy which now, instead of overthrowing the Damascus government, aims at creating a Syria-like scenario from in the greater region, including Lebanon, the Kurdish regions of Turkey and Iran, Syria, Iraq, and the Russian, South-Caucasian republics.
While Saudi Arabia is playing the role of the “rouge al-Qaeda supporter”, the roles of the governments of Turkey and Qatar, are to support the “apparently more moderate Muslim Brotherhood based” mercenary brigades throughout the region, affording political cover for the USA and other core NATO members for supporting the insurgents while distancing themselves from “Al-Qaeda” and “terrorism”.
Ch/L-nsnbc 18.01.2014
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