'S Arabia ditches Prince
Bandar from Syria case over US'
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say the Al Saud regime has relieved its spymaster, Prince Bandar bin
Sultan, of his duties in spearheading the kingdom's mission in the
Syria crisis.
According to recent reports, Saudi Arabia has assigned Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef to lead Riyadh’s anti-Damascus policies instead of the kingdom’s veteran spy chief, Prince Bandar, who has been a staunch supporter of Takfiri militants operating against Syria.
Diplomatic sources say Washington had demanded the removal of Prince Bandar from the Syrian file because of his mismanagement of the situation in the country, which has been grappling with a foreign-backed crisis since March 2011.
On February 19, the Washington Post also reported that the Saudi interior minister had recently represented Saudi Arabia at a conclave of Western and Arab spymasters in the United States, where he held talks with US National Security Adviser Susan Rice over the policies in Syria.
Reports also indicate that Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz’s son and the head of the kingdom’s National Guard, has also assumed a bigger share of responsibility for Riyadh’s policies on Syria.
The Wall Street Journal cited an a Saudi analyst serving as an adviser to top royals as saying that the world will begin to see a “new strategy for Syria -- quieter, more open, not too extreme. There will be more politics to it, and probably much less military.”
According to the report, Saudi royal advisors said the removal of Prince Bandar from the task may lead to smoother Riyadh-Washington relations.
In the past years, Prince Bandar has presided over Saudi Arabia anti-Damascus operations with little success. There has been no mention of Bandar in Saudi media outlets since January. He was reportedly in a hospital in the US for treatment and is currently living in Morocco.
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