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  • Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
    By Pepe Escobar / 6 septembre 2013
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-05-060913.html

    (...) Free bombing. For three months. With inbuilt free upgrading. Operation Tomahawk With Cheese but also bacon, onions, chilies, mayo, guacamole, the works. All courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan - aka Bandar Bush - plus minions Emirates and Qatar. What’s not to like? The inestimable Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations, has been using his calculator:

    Exhibit A: Saudis have put ’’on the table’’ their offer to pay for the entire US assault on Syria. Exhibit B: in case of an attack on Syria, the price of oil is slated to go from $109 to $125 per barrel (base case scenario), with an upside scenario of $150 per barrel. Saudi Arabia will produce 9.8 million barrels of oil a day. Which means if the spike is only the base case scenario, Saudi will gross a super-profit of $156.8 million per day. If it is the upside scenario, then the Saudi super-profits will be $401.8 million per day. Not a bad arbitrage game from Mr Bandar and his gang of Saudi “democrats”.

    Addendum: each Tomahawk costs only US$1.5 million. With a prospective free flow of Bandar Bush’s cash, no wonder there’s a compatible free flow of Krug at Raytheon’s HQ.

    Confronted with the sumptuous marriage of the industrial-military complex and the House of Saud producing lethal cruise offspring duly employed as al-Qaeda’s Air Force, a pesky detail like hardcore Chechen jihadis forming their own militia, The Mujahedin of the Caucasus and the Levant, is, well, irrelevant. As irrelevant as the fact that these jihadis are run by none other than Bandar Bush, who bragged to President Vladimir Putin he can turn them on and off at will.

    So if these Chechens are Bandar’s minions, they are also Friends of Obama/Kerry/Rice/Power. Just like the jihadis who are fighting to take over the “crusader” village of Maloula - where people still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus - so they can proceed to gleefully behead a few Christian infidels.