July 27, 2007 (LPAC)--While the Bush Administration is publicly blaming Iran and Syria for the debacle in Iraq, unnamed administration officials are complaining, to the New York Times, about Saudi Arabia. These unnamed officials say that the Saudis aren't doing enough to back the Maliki government in Baghdad and, even worse, they are giving financial backing to Sunni groups that oppose him. Military and intelligence officials say that nearly half of the 60 to 80 foreign fighters that enter Iraq each month are Saudi and that the Saudis have not done enough to stem the flow. While not going public with their complaints, the Times notes that these officials who agreed to be interviewed "were nevertheless clearly intent on sending a pointed signal to a top American ally" because of their "deep frustration that more private American appeals to the Saudis had failed to produce a change in course."

Missing from the entire account is the name of Dick Cheney. As previously reported by LPAC, Cheney has been trying to organize a Sunni-bloc, that would include Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf Cooperation Council states, in alliance with Israel against Iran. Cheney's ally in Saudi Arabia is the BAE-payed British asset Prince Bandar bin Sultan, also not mentioned in the article but who was reported by LPAC on July 5 to be planning a coup against King Abdallah as part of Cheney's scheme. The Saudi behavior in Iraq, as reported by the above unnamed officials, is perfectly coherent with Cheney's plan for wider war in the region.