Kerry holds urgent talks as
US-Saudi rift deepens over Middle East policy
Secretary of state on charm
offensive amid criticism from Riyadh that the US is not
providing sufficient help to Syrian rebels
Dan Roberts in Washington
theguardian.com, Tuesday 22
October 2013 17.57 EDT
A deepening diplomatic rift
between Saudi
Arabia and the US
burst open on Tuesday after secretary of state John Kerry acknowledged that Washington's
key strategic ally had serious misgivings about US
foreign policy in the Middle East.
Kerry held urgent talks with his
Saudi counterpart in Paris on Monday amid
complaints from Riyadh that the US was not doing enough to help Sunni-dominated
rebels in Syria following a
decision not launch US
military action.
"We know that the Saudis were
obviously disappointed that the [Syria]
strike didn't take place," Kerry told reporters in London on Tuesday.
"It is our obligation to work
closely with them – as I am doing," he added, referring to multiple
meetings he had on Monday with Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.
"The president asked me to come and have the conversations that we have
had."
Saudi
Arabia
Abdallah
Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud is the king of Saudi Arabia,
and a benefactor for the Middle East
Policy Council.
Note: Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. was the U.S.
ambassador for Saudi Arabia, the president of the Middle East Policy Council, the National
Intelligence Council chairman nominee for the Barack Obama administration, is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and
a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is director a
the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), a board member for the International
Crisis Group, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and married to John F. Kerry.
John
F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz
Kerry, and the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration.
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