According to reports from the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), a Syriac Christian-run media outlet, the Saudi Arabian government sent over 1,200 death-row inmates to Syria to join the ongoing civil war on the side of the rebellion.
The AINA report cites a leaked memo from the Interior Ministry as saying the 1,239 inmates were all sentenced to “execution by sword” for various crimes, and were given full pardons, as well as stipends for their families.
An unnamed Iraqi MP confirmed knowledge of the program, and said that Saudi Arabia had been forced to end the policy after Russia threatened to bring the issue to the attention of the United Nations.
The quiet deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia was that the influx of inmates would end and Russia would keep the matter from becoming public knowledge. Now that the information is out there, it will be interesting to see how Russia and Saudi Arabia react.
This has been open knowledge for a very long time among those of us who never joined the anti-Assad bandwagon. How can anyone claim this became “public knowledge” only now?
The argument that some government have about Saudis tyrants not being involved and that syrian war is mostly for Saudis sunny tyrants regime widening their political religious in Syrian war and from Saudi penne sulfa to North Africa, or USG is not supporting Saudis terrorist groups, or for that matter the Europeans Neo liberal fascism from Sweden to England to France, here, is wide open for people to study.
To prove the argument once more, it was senator McCain who meet these bandits, mercenaries and had his photos taken with them, it was Hillary Clinton who meet the Saudis and muslims brotherhood in Egypt and than the Turkish and French government promising that "Syrian government will be changed" but she couldn't say the exact date or time. And Now this, Syrian war was and still is a proxy war, organized and orchestrated by the west for Saudis and UAE dictatorial-tyrants regimes. There is only three friends that USG or the european government ever had in middle east, one apartheid regime as israel, two tyrants of persian gulf and dictatorial religious or otherwise regime in middle east.
For that friendship A country with rich culture and civilization Syria, is devastated (like Iraq) by what is a falsified democracy in nature governed by vulture capitalism, by what is not even close to what is claimed to be civilized or democracy. If it was, they wouldn't have friends as such, they would have worked to promote democracy not tyrants and their barbarians regimes.
A kick in the nuts both to Syria's worst enemy and to Syria's best friend, this reads like a Snowden. The Russians have been tempted by the Saudis before, without success. This, too, is another feather in their cap for they stopped the travesty without threatening to bomb somebody.
It would come as a surprise if the Saudi jihadis who flew the silver bullets on 9/11 haven't earned their folks a pension too, Has anybody checked?
But then, we still don't know, for sure, who was on those planes. Or if they're even dead. Osama wasn't, but he is. Lots of Afghans and Iraqis, too.
Good on the evil empire! Why can't the good guys do that?
Excellent comment over all. Of course Federal agencies would have checked, National Park Service, TSA, USPS, USPHS. Oh you mean like NSA, no too busy reading my emails, CIA too busy snuggling arms to nations that hate our guts. And lots of Iraqi's and Afghanistan’s dead, easily 100K of each. Yesterday photos on the news of the "beheading" of a jahadist in Syria. Last photo shows knife held to his throat, no pic of headless body, or bodyless head. Propaganda BS. How about some pictures of eviscerated kids that were collateral damage of a drone strike. Let Mrs Joe 6pack see what our war does over seas.
Since "Winter Soldier" Kerry and CIC Obama are fixated on bombing some nation, bomb Saudi Araby till they allow all of their women to drive cars and trucks. The ones driving trucks must be allowed to form a Saudi branch of the Teamsters Union. This would do more to Advance Democracy than any plan we've tried so far in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I 'am sure they did this with the blessing and approval from the US.
Real pillars of the community.
"full pardons, as well as stipends for their families"
And a promise of all the human livers they can eat.
Facts speak for themselves correctly and objectively that some of the Arab leaders (kings, presidents and prime ministers) including Egyptian military (coup) leaders, Libyan rebel leaders and Syrian rebel leaders could be easily fooled, drugged and dragged and finally deceived by the Imperialist and Zionist ploys into supporting their interests to sow discord among Muslim countries including demonizing Iran as a threat to the Arab world and intervening in the other Arab countries as well as make them fight each other at the expense of their own fellow countrymen!!!
… and the winners are the Zionist and Imperialist corporate world!!!
I am very sorry for my Arab brothers and sisters!!!