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Saudi Arabia part of US domination axis in Mideast: Activist

Monday, 25 January 2016 5:43 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 25 January 2016 5:43 AM ]

A militant holds a position in Harasta Qantara, near Marj al-Sultan on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, on January 23, 2016. © AFP

Press TV interviews Ajamu Baraka, a human rights activist from Atlanta, and Lawrence Korb, a former assistant to US secretary of defense from Washington, to discuss cooperation between CIA and Saudi Arabia to support extremist militants in the Middle East.

Baraka says the Saudi regime is an “axis of domination” in the Middle East and the Saudis are the “front person” of the US policy which has resulted in destruction and insecurity in several countries.

The activist notes that ties between the CIA and Saudi Arabia are “cozy and convenient” since the intelligence apparatus needs its Saudi friends to get around the restrictions imposed by the US’ Congress on its activities in other countries.

He also says the CIA-Saudi cooperation has resulted in the deaths of “hundreds of thousands of people” and added that they conduct some activities, which could be seen as a “criminal conspiracy”, to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries.

The United States with the help of the Saudi regime has been involved in “covert training” of Takfiri terrorists to make Syria insecure, he says, arguing that the US, the Saudi kingdom and Turkey do not have any moral or political rights to provide arms for militant groups in a sovereign country.

Korb, for his part, says the United States has a long history of working with Saudi Arabia, noting that the CIA cooperated with the Saudis in Afghanistan and now they are cooperating in Syria.

Saudi Arabia and other countries intervened in Syria to defend the so-called “opposition” but the war was taken over by Daesh, he says.

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