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Saudi FM: Assad must go or face 'military option'
Yahoo ^ | 09/29/15

Posted on 09/29/2015 5:17:16 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad must leave office or face being turfed out by force, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said Tuesday, warning of stepped up support for Syrian rebel groups.

Jubeir rejected Russian calls for an international coalition to help Assad fight the Islamic State group, and said the Syrian leader's best option would be to step down.

"There is no future for Assad in Syria, with all due respect to the Russians or anyone else," Jubeir told reporters in New York after meetings with Saudi Arabia's allies.

"There are two options for a settlement in Syria. One option is a political process where there would be a transitional council," he said, describing this as the "preferred option."

"The other option is a military option, which also would end with the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power," Jubeir warned.

"This could be a more lengthy process and a more destructive process, but the choice is entirely that of Bashar al-Assad."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; calaphate; destabilization; iran; isis; libya; meddling; saudiarabia; statedepartment; terrorists
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To: RightGeek

Saudi’s and co. not taking in refugees so as not to look suspicious.


41 posted on 09/29/2015 5:49:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Enlightened1

This explains exactly WHO owns Lyndsey Graham.


42 posted on 09/29/2015 5:49:25 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes, because the Syrian rebels pretty much are ISIS.


43 posted on 09/29/2015 5:50:11 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

What I don’t get is that Saudi has a fraction of our oil. We don’t need them. Of course using theirs mean ours can be environmentally put off limits and the population controlled...So I suppose I do get it.


44 posted on 09/29/2015 5:50:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: RightGeek
"Moderate rebels."...that would be those five guys we trained at millions of dollars apiece, who just surrendered to ALQaeda or ISIS or somebody else bad. So, Saudis believe in these ghosts too? I thought nobody but the trolls in the State Department suffered that delusion.
45 posted on 09/29/2015 5:50:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Enlightened1

Assad isn’t going anywhere.

The al-Saud clan? Perhaps.


46 posted on 09/29/2015 5:52:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: wrench

They might be able to do Yemen, who obviously can’t fight back on a level playing field.

Them taking on a Russia, would be really insane, because Russia can and would fight back and no matter how many is in Saudi’s coalition, I don’t think they could win against Russia.


47 posted on 09/29/2015 5:52:30 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Enlightened1

Just what is the House of Saud going to do about it but flap their trap like Obummer?


48 posted on 09/29/2015 5:52:53 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: dp0622
Saudi Arabia should have ceased to exist after 9/11

Along with Pakistan.

49 posted on 09/29/2015 5:53:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: hinckley buzzard

They also kissed each other, and Obama couldn’t wait to go and kiss the ring of the new Saudi Dictator.


50 posted on 09/29/2015 5:54:23 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: McGruff
The House Of Saud could fall fairly easily

The House of Hapsburg in 1915 was a lot more secure than the House of Saud is in 2015.

51 posted on 09/29/2015 5:55:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Norm Lenhart

We can agree on that.


52 posted on 09/29/2015 5:55:54 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

The Sauds have already discussed getting nukes from the Paks. If it goes hot, you are right, the Saudis are no match for Russia, and it may quickly become a fight for the Kingdom’s survival.

Enter theater tactical nuke exchange?


53 posted on 09/29/2015 5:56:09 PM PDT by wrench
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To: wrench

Nowhere one hopes or that would really be Armageddon.


54 posted on 09/29/2015 5:56:40 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

“Nowhere one hopes or that would really be Armageddon.”

They are aligned with Egypt and the Saudis, AND now have Russian forces on their border.

Not good........


55 posted on 09/29/2015 5:59:14 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Enlightened1
The Assad dictatorship seems no worse than the Saudi dictatorship

seems to me this is the pot calling the kettle black

56 posted on 09/29/2015 6:00:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: McGruff

The choices one is having to make now are incredibly appalling. I’m not a fan of Iran either, I truly despise Saudi Arabia and have felt this way for years, they’re going to CRUCIFY some teenager and this is considered normal, I’ve lost track on how many heads the Saudi’s have chopped off this year.

The Saudi law IS the ISIS law, ISIS are a joint Obama-Saudi creation.

Given a choice right now, I’d be happy for Saudi Arabia to be put out of business.


57 posted on 09/29/2015 6:00:17 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Well yes, that about sums it up.


58 posted on 09/29/2015 6:01:45 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: McGruff

The whole Saudi ‘um leadership would have to be put out of business, none could remain, because there are some really insane Princes, who by their words sound like ISIS themselves.

The Saudi Foreign Minister is one of the insane ones, his previous comments about things are totally extreme.


59 posted on 09/29/2015 6:03:42 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Cementjungle

The world has gone Thru The Looking Glass.


60 posted on 09/29/2015 6:04:51 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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