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While the United States places great hope and expectation in Saudi Arabia to help with the Middle East, the oil-rich kingdom may be working at odds with the U.S. in backing and financing the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
This development comes even though the U.S. has asked Saudi Arabia to work with the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan to split with al-Qaida and deny it safe haven in both countries.
A report developed by the private global intelligence firm Stratfor suggests that if the kingdom were to persuade the Taliban to split from al-Qaida, then the U.S. would consider that the U.S. war with transnational jihadists would end.
The report cites a visit by Taliban officials to Saudi Arabia and the visit by Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdel-Aziz to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The report adds, however, that if the Saudis were to help the U.S. and Pakistan against the jihadists, its interests also may be attacked. The interests include the Saudi Embassy and Saudi airline facilities in Pakistan.
But the Saudis may have other motives apart from aiding the U.S. in its dilemma of how to get out of its war with jihadists.
Being Sunni, Saudi Arabia may in fact want to work with the Taliban and continue to pay extortion money to al-Qaida to prevent it from launching further attacks inside the kingdom. Both the Taliban and al-Qaida are Sunni.
After all, the Saudis helped support the creation of al-Qaidain the 1980s and the Taliban in the 1990s.
The Saudis will want to continue providing financial help to the Taliban to offset any potential Shiite Iranian influence into Afghanistan. And that influence is growing.
For that, the Saudis will need to continue secretly nurturing the Taliban as well as al-Qaida, even though its continued support helps them kill American soldiers.
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