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    THE KERRY-ABDULLAH SECRET DEAL

    Monday, November 3rd, 2014 | Posted by Editor
    http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2014/11/03/511280the-kerry-abdullah-secret-deal/

    The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War

    by F. William Engdahl

    Global Research.ca

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia's
    King Abdullah, September 11, 2014.

    The details are emerging of a new secret and quite stupid Saudi-US deal
    on Syria and the so-called IS. It involves oil and gas control of the
    entire region and the weakening of Russia and Iran by Saudi Arabian
    flooding the world market with cheap oil. Details were concluded in
    the September meeting by US Secretary of State John Kerry and the
    Saudi King. The unintended consequence will be to push Russia even
    faster to turn east to China and Eurasia.

    One of the weirdest anomalies of the recent NATO bombing campaign,
    allegedly against the ISIS or IS or ISIL or Daash, depending on
    your preference, is the fact that with major war raging in the
    world's richest oil region, the price of crude oil has been dropping,
    dramatically so. Since June when ISIS suddenly captured the oil-rich
    region of Iraq around Mosul and Kirkuk, the benchmark Brent price
    of crude oil dropped some 20% from $112 to about $88. World daily
    demand for oil has not dropped by 20% however. China oil demand has
    not fallen 20% nor has US domestic shale oil stock risen by 21%.

    What has happened is that the long-time US ally inside OPEC, the
    kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been flooding the market with deep
    discounted oil, triggering a price war within OPEC, with Iran following
    suit and panic selling short in oil futures markets. The Saudis are
    targeting sales to Asia for the discounts and in particular, its major
    Asian customer, China where it is reportedly offering its crude for
    a mere $50 to $60 a barrel rather than the earlier price of around
    $100. [1] That Saudi financial discounting operation in turn is by
    all appearance being coordinated with a US Treasury financial warfare
    operation, via its Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
    in cooperation with a handful of inside players on Wall Street who
    control oil derivatives trading. The result is a market panic that
    is gaining momentum daily. China is quite happy to buy the cheap oil,
    but her close allies, Russia and Iran, are being hit severely.

    The deal

    According to Rashid Abanmy, President of the Riyadh-based Saudi
    Arabia Oil Policies and Strategic Expectations Center, the dramatic
    price collapse is being deliberately caused by the Saudis, OPEC's
    largest producer. The public reason claimed is to gain new markets
    in a global market of weakening oil demand.

    The real reason, according to Abanmy, is to put pressure on Iran
    on her nuclear program, and on Russia to end her support for Bashar
    al-Assad in Syria.[2]

    When combined with the financial losses of Russian state natural
    gas sales to Ukraine and prospects of a US-instigated cutoff of
    the transit of Russian gas to the huge EU market this winter as EU
    stockpiles become low, the pressure on oil prices hits Moscow doubly.

    More than 50% of Russian state revenue comes from its export sales
    of oil and gas.

    The US-Saudi oil price manipulation is aimed at destabilizing several
    strong opponents of US globalist policies. Targets include Iran and
    Syria, both allies of Russia in opposing a US sole Superpower. The
    principal target, however, is Putin's Russia, the single greatest
    threat today to that Superpower hegemony. The strategy is similar
    to what the US did with Saudi Arabia in 1986 when they flooded the
    world with Saudi oil, collapsing the price to below $10 a barrel and
    destroying the economy of then-Soviet ally, Saddam Hussein in Iraq
    and, ultimately, of the Soviet economy, paving the way for the fall of
    the Soviet Union. Today, the hope is that a collapse of Russian oil
    revenues, combined with select pin-prick sanctions designed by the
    US Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence will
    dramatically weaken Putin's enormous domestic support and create
    conditions for his ultimate overthrow. It is doomed to fail for
    many reasons, not the least, because Putin's Russia has taken major
    strategic steps together with China and other nations to lessen its
    dependence on the West. In fact the oil weapon is accelerating recent
    Russian moves to focus its economic power on national interests and
    lessen dependence on the Dollar system. If the dollar ceases being the
    currency of world trade, especially oil trade, the US Treasury faces
    financial catastrophe. For this reason, I call the Kerry-Abdullah
    oil war a very stupid tactic.

    The Kerry-Abdullah secret deal

    On September 11, US Secretary of State Kerry met Saudi King Abdullah
    at his palace on the Red Sea. The King invited former head of Saudi
    intelligence, Prince Bandar to attend. There a deal was hammered
    out which saw Saudi support for the Syrian airstrikes against ISIS
    on condition Washington backed the Saudis in toppling Assad, a firm
    ally of Russia and de facto of Iran and an obstacle to Saudi and
    UAE plans to control the emerging EU natural gas market and destroy
    Russia's lucrative EU trade. A report in the Wall Street Journal noted
    there had been "months of behind-the-scenes work by the US and Arab
    leaders, who agreed on the need to cooperate against Islamic State,
    but not how or when. The process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a
    fresh US commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad,
    whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority." [3]

    For the Saudis the war is between two competing age-old vectors of
    Islam. Saudi Arabia, home to the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina,
    claims de facto supremacy in the Islamic world of Sunni Islam. The
    Saudi Sunni form is ultra-conservative Wahhabism, named for an 18th
    Century Bedouin Islamic fundamentalist or Salafist named Muhammad
    ibn Abd al-Wahha. The Taliban derive from Wahhabism with the aid of
    Saudi-financed religious instruction. The Gulf Emirates and Kuwait
    also adhere to the Sunni Wahhabism of the Saudis, as does the Emir
    of Qatar. Iran on the other hand historically is the heart of the
    smaller branch of Islam, the Shi'ite. Iraq's population is some 61%
    majority Shi'ite. Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad is a member
    of a satellite of the Shi'ite branch known as Alawite. Some 23% of
    Turkey is also Alawite Muslim. To complicate the picture more, across
    a bridge from Saudi Arabia sits the tiny island country, Bahrain
    where as many as 75% of the population is Shi'ite but the ruling
    Al-Khalifa family is Sunni and firmly tied to Saudi Arabia. Moreover,
    the richest Saudi oil region is dominated by Shi'ite Muslims who work
    the oil installations of Ras Tanura.

    An oil and gas pipeline war

    These historic fault lines inside Islam which lay dormant, were
    brought into a state of open warfare with the launching of the US
    State Department and CIA's Islamic Holy War, otherwise known as the
    Arab Spring. Washington neo-conservatives embedded inside the Obama
    Administration in a form of "Deep State" secret network, and their
    allied media such as the Washington Post, advocated US covert backing
    of a pet CIA project known as the Muslim Brotherhood. As I detail in my
    most recent book, Amerikas' Heiliger Krieg, the CIA had cultivated ties
    to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood death cult since the early 1950's.

    Now if we map the resources of known natural gas reserves in the
    entire Persian Gulf region, the motives of the Saudi-led Qatar and
    UAE in financing with billions of dollars the opposition to Assad,
    including the Sunni ISIS, becomes clearer. Natural gas has become
    the favored "clean energy" source for the 21st Century and the EU is
    the world's largest growth market for gas, a major reason Washington
    wants to break the Gazprom-EU supply dependency to weaken Russia and
    keep control over the EU via loyal proxies like Qatar.

    The world's largest known natural gas reservoir sits in the middle of
    the Persian Gulf straddling part in the territorial waters of Qatar
    and part in Iran. The Iranian part is called North Pars. In 2006
    China's state-owned CNOOC signed an agreement with Iran to develop
    North Pars and build LNG infrastructure to bring the gas to China.[4]

    The Qatar side of the Persian Gulf, called North Field, contains
    the world's third largest known natural gas reserves behind Russia
    and Iran.

    In July 2011, the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an
    historic gas pipeline energy agreement which went largely unnoticed in
    the midst of the NATO-Saudi-Qatari war to remove Assad. The pipeline,
    envisioned to cost $10 billion and take three years to complete, would
    run from the Iranian Port Assalouyeh near the South Pars gas field
    in the Persian Gulf, to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory. The
    agreement would make Syria the center of assembly and production in
    conjunction with the reserves of Lebanon. This is a geopolitically
    strategic space that geographically opens for the first time,
    extending from Iran to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[5] As Asia Times
    correspondent Pepe Escobar put it, "The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline -
    if it's ever built - would solidify a predominantly Shi'ite axis
    through an economic, steel umbilical cord."[6]

    Shortly after signing with Iran and Iraq, on August 16, 2011, Bashar
    al-Assad's Syrian Ministry of Oil announced the discovery of a gas
    well in the Area of Qarah in the Central Region of Syria near Homs.

    Gazprom, with Assad in power, would be a major investor or operator
    of the new gas fields in Syria. [7] Iran ultimately plans to extend
    the pipeline from Damascus to Lebanon's Mediterranean port where it
    would be delivered to the huge EU market. Syria would buy Iranian gas
    along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran's
    part of South Pars field.[8]

    Qatar, today the world's largest exporter of LNG, largely to Asia,
    wants the same EU market that Iran and Syria eye. For that, they
    would build pipelines to the Mediterranean. Here is where getting
    rid of the pro-Iran Assad is essential. In 2009 Qatar approached
    Bashar al-Assad to propose construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar's
    north Field through Syria on to Turkey and to the EU. Assad refused,
    citing Syria's long friendly relations with Russia and Gazprom. That
    refusal combined with the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline agreement
    in 2011 ignited the full-scale Saudi and Qatari assault on Assad's
    power, financing al Qaeda terrorists, recruits of Jihadist fanatics
    willing to kill Alawite and Shi'ite "infidels" for $100 a month and a
    Kalishnikov. The Washington neo-conservative warhawks in and around
    the Obama White House, along with their allies in the right-wing
    Netanyahu government, were cheering from the bleachers as Syria went
    up in flames after spring 2011.

    Today the US-backed wars in Ukraine and in Syria are but two fronts
    in the same strategic war to cripple Russia and China and to rupture
    any Eurasian counter-pole to a US-controlled New World Order. In
    each, control of energy pipelines, this time primarily of natural gas
    pipelines--from Russia to the EU via Ukraine and from Iran and Syria
    to the EU via Syria--is the strategic goal. The true aim of the US and
    Israel backed ISIS is to give the pretext for bombing Assad's vital
    grain silos and oil refineries to cripple the economy in preparation
    for a "Ghaddafi-"style elimination of Russia and China and Iran-ally
    Bashar al-Assad.

    In a narrow sense, as Washington neo-conservatives see it, who controls
    Syria could control the Middle East. And from Syria, gateway to Asia,
    he will hold the key to Russia House, as well as that of China via
    the Silk Road.

    Religious wars have historically been the most savage of all wars
    and this one is no exception, especially when trillions of dollars in
    oil and gas revenues are at stake. Why is the secret Kerry-Abdullah
    deal on Syria reached on September 11 stupid? Because the brilliant
    tacticians in Washington and Riyadh and Doha and to an extent in Ankara
    are unable to look at the interconnectedness of all the dis-order and
    destruction they foment, to look beyond their visions of control of
    the oil and gas flows as the basis of their illegitimate power. They
    are planting the seeds of their own destruction in the end.

    William Engdahl is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil
    Politics in the New World Order. He is a contributing author at BFP and
    may be contacted through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
    where this article was originally published.

    Notes:

    [1] M. Rochan, Crude Oil Drops Amid Global
    Demand Concerns, IB Times, October 11, 2014
    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/crude-oil-drops-amid-global-demand-concerns-1469524

    [2] Nihan Cabbaroglu, Saudi Arabia to pressure Russia Iran
    with price of oil, 10 October 2014, Turkish Anadolu Agency,
    http://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/402343-saudi-arabia-to-pressure-russia-iran-with-price-of-oil

    [3] Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes, Deal With Saudis Paved Way for
    Syrian Airstrikes: Talks With Saudi Arabia Were Linchpin in U.S.

    Efforts to Get Arab States Into Fight Against Islamic
    State, Wall Street Journal, September. 24, 2014,
    http://online.wsj.com/articles/deal-with-saudis-paved-way-for-syrian-airstrikes-1411605329?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

    [4] POGC, North Pars Gas Field, Pars Oil and Gas Company website,
    http://www.pogc.ir/NorthParsGasField/tabid/155/Default.aspx

    [5] Imad Fawzi Shueibi , War Over Gas-Struggle over the Middle East:
    Gas Ranks First, 17 April, 2012.

    http://www.voltairenet.org/article173718.html

    [6] Pepe Escobar, Why Qatar Wants to Invade
    Syria, Asia Times, September 27, 2012,
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32576.htm

    [7] Ibid.

    [8] F. William Engdahl, Syria Turkey Israel and the Greater
    Middle East Energy War, Global Research, October 11, 2012,
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-turkey-israel-and-the-greater-middle-east-energy-war/5307902


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