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Saudis Attempt to Buy Off Russians re Syria

Saudis Attempt to Buy Off Russians re Syria

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-syria-crisis-saudi-russia-idUSBRE9760OQ20130807

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a major arms deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales if Moscow scales back support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Middle East sources and Western diplomats said on Wednesday.


Will this finish the Syrian regime?

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-syria-crisis-saudi-russia-idUSBRE9760OQ20130807

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a major arms deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales if Moscow scales back support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Middle East sources and Western diplomats said on Wednesday.


Will this finish the Syrian regime?
Can we send money to Assad?

I just figure that anyone who is hated by both Obama and Al Qaeda can't be all bad. 😛

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I do prefer secular over religious fundamentalist but I wonder how many of the thousands of children killed or arrested and tortured by the Assad regime were secular.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/05/syria-ballistic-missiles-killing-children-hrw/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-syria-crisis-russia-saudi-idUSBRE9780J720130809

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has not made an agreement with Saudi Arabia to scale back support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in exchange for economic incentives including an arms deal, the Kremlin said on Friday.