Exclusive - Assad’s secret oil lifeline: Iraqi crude from Egypt
Reuters
December 24, 2013,
http://rt.com/op-edge/syria-russia-war-oil-528/
Syria attraction: Russia moving into Eastern Mediterranean oil bonanza
January 13, 2014
1/16/2014
Russia Finds Path Into Mediterranean Gas Through Syria
With oil at stake, South Sudan’s crisis matters to its customers
January 20, 2014
EXCERPT
Before the crisis, South Sudan was producing about 220,000 to 240,000 barrels of oil per day, with roughly two-thirds heading to China. For the Chinese, the conflict has evoked memories of Libya. During the Arab Spring revolts, the fighting to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi all but destroyed China’s investments in Libya’s oil sector. Today, many projects remain unoperational.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/how_saudi_hate_propaganda_empowered_iran.html
In the Benghazi scandal we found out that the United States, in the person of Ambassador Stevens, was actually supplying arms to an estimated 60,000 Al Qaeda rebels in Syria. Why? The answer is the Shi’ite Crescent of Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Al Qaeda rebels in Syria are Sunni Muslims, while the Assad dictatorship in Syria is Shi’ite. Naturally, the Saudi Sunnis have done everything in their power to slice the Shi’ite Crescent (Iran, Syria, Lebanon) in half. The Saudis have therefore sponsored and armed murderous AQ rebels, who literally decapitated children in the village of Maloula, where the language of Jesus is still spoken, as we saw in iPhone photos that flashed around the internet. Killing Christians and Jews is what AQ does best, as Americans should have learned after 9/11/01. But in a pinch they will also kill Shi’ites, like the Assad regime in Syria.
When Ansar al Shari’a, an AQ-linked group, killed our ambassador and four other Americans in Benghazi, it was essentially a corrupt arms deal gone wrong. The United States colluded with France and other European countries to overthrow Gadhafi in Libya, with Ambassador Stevens acting as the point man. Stevens, who is a CIA plant under State Department cover, then worked to smuggle Gadhafi’s vast arms supplies to the Sunni rebels in Syria. That plot failed, because nobody can make a reliable agreement with the AQ’s, who are themselves sliced and diced in the usual way of the Muslim world. Ansar al-Sharia therefore decided to burn out the Americans at the Benghazi arms depot, and, according to some reports, steal tens of thousands of MANPAD anti-aircraft missiles for their own use.