Oh dear, it seems the US Administration and their intelligence services have an urgent position for a translator. Yet again the story line is changing after months of feeding the public fodder on where the real source of insurgency and mayhem in Iraq actually lies.
Without ever producing concrete evidence, the public was repeatedly to the point of hysteria fed rumours on how Iran was at the root of the deadly insurgency that was reigning terror in that already devastated country. Of course, such gossip and innuendo suited certain interest groups in the US and its allies in the Middle East.
However, now, according to the latest report in the NY Times, 60% of the past year's insurgents came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, with 41% of the total of insurgents from Saudi Arabia alone. And this latest turn of tune comes from the proverbial horse's mouth: US military officials in Iraq who have uncovered documentation to that effect. So far, no Iranian combatants have been captured or otherwise found by the US forces in Iraq.
Besides the footwork over the statistics, the more pressing concern is over the simple detail that Saudi Arabia is supposedly an US ally in all of this. One wonders how Washington's spin machine is going to spin this one to suit their foreign policy and strategic interests in the region. Perhaps the recent change in tone from Riyadh has something to do with these bits of information making their way to the press at this point in time.
All we know is that all of the above take on the form of yet another casualty of friendly fire.
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