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Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria
Daily Mail UK ^ | 19:27 EST, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 19:27 EST, 22 October 2013 | Staff

Posted on 10/23/2013 6:29:00 AM PDT by Red Badger

Upset at President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years.

Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief is vowing that the kingdom will make a 'major shift' in relations with the United States to protest perceived American inaction over Syria's civil war as well as recent U.S. overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan told European diplomats that the United States had failed to act effectively against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was growing closer to Tehran, and had failed to back Saudi support for Bahrain when it crushed an anti-government revolt in 2011, the source said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: diplomacy; diplomat; diplomaticties; incompetence; incompetent; jihad; kerry; muslimworld; nobel; nucleariran; obama; obamalosessaudis; obamasfault; peaceprize; princebandar; religionofpeace; rop; saudi; saudiarabia; syria; syriawar; worldwar3; wwiii
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To: MichaelCorleone

They don’t call them petrodollars for no reason.


41 posted on 10/23/2013 7:28:01 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Red Badger

There’s only three articles in a Google news search about this, the one posted and two from third tier news sources.

Is the story bogus or is the entire US media that complicit in covering for the Administration?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Saudi+Arabia+severs+diplomatic+ties+with+US&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs


42 posted on 10/23/2013 7:29:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: rdcbn

That headline is a damned lie.

The Daily Mail is the most poorly written and edited newspaper I’ve ever read, and yes that includes anything in the U.S. in the past ten years. I’ve never seen so many contradictions within a story or a headline that has no basis in the story as I have in this rag.


43 posted on 10/23/2013 7:31:14 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like the president’s endless toadying to the Arabs hasn’t gotten the US very far.

There really is only one reliable American ally in the Middle East, but don’t attempt to tell this to the demonstrably anti-Semitic Obama


44 posted on 10/23/2013 7:34:01 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Red Badger

Saudi Arabia is no friend but I would be far more worried about a nuclear armed Iran. As for Syria, let Allah sort it out.


45 posted on 10/23/2013 7:34:36 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Black Agnes

Buh bye!!! Lose our phone number when the Iranian tanks are rolling across your border and the royal family needs to take a powder to a safe place. Call France, Germany or the UK.


46 posted on 10/23/2013 7:35:19 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Rebelbase

You answered your own question.........


47 posted on 10/23/2013 7:39:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (TANSTAAFL always wins. Always...........................)
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To: cloudmountain

Actually we get most of our oil from our US domestic production, Mexico, Canada and South America.


48 posted on 10/23/2013 7:41:11 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Red Badger

Another one bites the dust....


49 posted on 10/23/2013 7:43:28 AM PDT by traumer
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To: RC one

There’s a major disruption in the status quo occurring right now.

There's a disturbance in The Force.........

50 posted on 10/23/2013 7:43:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (TANSTAAFL always wins. Always...........................)
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To: Black Agnes
Oh noes!

The Saudi sheiks ‘blue eyed warriors’ didn’t snap to attention when he summoned them..

My contempt for Obama knows no bounds, but the Saudis can kiss off quite frankly. Gather up all the utterly useless sheiks, sultans, emirs, princes and the rest of the dilettantes that comprise the fetid House of Saud and fight your own damn wars.

51 posted on 10/23/2013 7:49:20 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: Red Badger
In other world changing news....A Saudi prince said he would no longer buy Gummy Bears from the U.S.....We await Washington's response.
52 posted on 10/23/2013 7:59:05 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: Red Badger

as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.... er, wait no, as if China and Russia and Saudi Arabia and a number of other G20 nations are suddenly aligning against the US and threatening to collapse western capitalism by ending the petrodollar arrangement.


53 posted on 10/23/2013 8:01:33 AM PDT by RC one
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To: Red Badger
Gonna miss Our Friends the Saudis.
54 posted on 10/23/2013 8:38:31 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Red Badger

Time to trade US dollars for hard assets.


55 posted on 10/23/2013 8:55:29 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Red Badger

My wife says that’s what happens when you let the little children eat at the big table.


56 posted on 10/23/2013 8:56:26 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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To: jpsb
Time to trade US dollars for hard assets.

Lead and Brass are hard assets..........

57 posted on 10/23/2013 8:57:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want......then pick up the pieces.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
"Keep in mind that all OPEC has to do is suddenly refuse to accet US dollars for their oil and our reserve currency status is history."

It appears that a lot of folks here do not understand that without Saudi backing the US dollar is WORTHLESS. This could be a very very bad thing for the US economy. The only thing we really export bysides airliners/weapons is dollars. And the only reason we can export dollars is they are needed to buy Saudi oil. Should that change then the world will no longer need (or want) dollars and the value of a US dollar will drop to near nothing.

58 posted on 10/23/2013 9:01:17 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Red Badger

An excellent investment.


59 posted on 10/23/2013 9:06:40 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Red Badger

Man our fracking must have really ticked them off.


60 posted on 10/23/2013 9:10:31 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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