Will Saudi and Jordanian Policy Change?

There are no indications that the Saudi and Jordanian policy of supporting and abetting jihadi terrorists who are actively involved in destabilizing Syria and Iraq, for example, will change due to the shift in the leadership in Saudi Arabia and due to the dramatic shock the Jordanian nation received after the brutal murder of Jordanian pilot Moath Al-Kasasbeh by the ISIS terrorists in Syrian town of Al-Raqqah.

The simple reason is that the policy of using Islamic terrorists as a tool for regime change is an Anglo-American policy decided in London and Washington, but implemented by the Saudi and Jordanian monarchies which were created by the British Empire in the past century.

The much-discussed swift and wide-ranging changes in the Saudi government carried out by the new Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, after the death of his half-brother King Abdullah in late January, are mere rearrangements of the chairs in the cabinet. The removal of Prince Bandar from the post of the Secretary General of the National Security Council, is just an indication of the pressure created externally by the exposure of Bandar as the man behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the U.S. However, he was once before removed from his post as Director General of the Saudi Intelligence agency in 2014 and moved to his latest post. This does not change much of the previous Saudi policy, as King Salman himself, as EIR reported last week, is implicated in financing and directing the same terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda. The policy is institutional and not individual.

Saudi Arabia is built on four pillars:

• 1. Allegiance to the British Empire,
• 2. Protection from the U.S.,
• 3. Alliance between Al-Saud family, the Wahhabi clergy and several powerful tribes in the Kingdom,
• 4. Massive oil resources. None of these have changed, and therefore no change in the policy can be expected.

Jordan’s much-vaunted declaration of revenge war against ISIS is a mere smoke-screen, and a way of calming down the Jordan public following the murder of Al-Kasasbeh. Since 2011, Jordan has become a logistical base for jihadist recruitment, training and infiltration into Syria to contribute to the regime-change policy advocated and backed by the U.S., Britain, and the EU. Like Turkey, another western/NATO ally, Jordan has a vast border with Syria and Iraq, through which terrorists, weapons and money from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States poured into Syria to fight the Syrian Army of the Bashar al-Assad government. Much of that logistical support ended in the hands of ISIS. These operations were run from the Saudi Embassy in Amman by Prince Salman bin Sultan, the younger brother of Prince Bandar, personally, who was serving as Assistant Secretary of the National Security Council.

What indicates that the Jordanian policy behind the Anglo-American regime-change policy is not being affected by the recent developments, is the government’s denial that its support for the Syria rebel groups and jihadists fighting in Syria is the cause of its current crisis. Furthermore, the Jordanian government has released the most prominent jihadist preacher Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi from prison. He is the spiritual leader of the Jordanian branch of al-Qaeda and responsible for recruiting and guiding the top leadership of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, such as Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi, who created the nucleus of what became ISIS. Al-Maqdisi was in custody for incitement and spreading jihadist literature on the internet. His freeing, immediately after the murder of al-Kasasbeh, is explained as a move against ISIS by promoting the “antidote” to ISIS, al-Qaeda, as both al-Maqdisi and al-Qaeda’s Jabhatul-Nusra terrorist group in Syria have been at a theological and real war against ISIS in the past two years! Jordan continues to get support from the British and U.S. governments, allegedly to support the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan, but in reality much of it is turned into logistical support for al-Qaeda and other armed groups fighting in Syria.