{"id":18017,"date":"2016-02-19T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18017"},"modified":"2016-02-19T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:46:24","slug":"risking-nuclear-war-for-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18017","title":{"rendered":"Risking Nuclear War for Al Qaeda?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Risking Nuclear War for Al Qaeda?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0The risk that\u00a0the multi-sided Syrian war could spark World War III continues\u00a0as Turkey,\u00a0Saudi Arabia and U.S. neocons seek an invasion that could\u00a0kill Russian troops \u2014 and possibly escalate the Syrian crisis into a nuclear showdown, amazingly\u00a0to protect\u00a0Al Qaeda terrorists, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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When President Barack Obama took questions from reporters on Tuesday, the one that needed to be asked \u2013 but wasn\u2019t \u2013 was whether he had forbidden Turkey and Saudi Arabia to invade Syria, because on that question could hinge whether the ugly Syrian civil war could spin off into World War III and possibly a nuclear showdown.
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If Turkey (with hundreds of thousands of troops massed near the Syrian border) and Saudi Arabia (with its sophisticated air force) follow through on threats and intervene militarily to save their rebel clients, who include Al Qaeda\u2019s Nusra Front, from a powerful Russian-backed Syrian government offensive, then Russia will have to decide what to do to protect its 20,000 or so military personnel inside Syria.<\/p>\n

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President Barack Obama meets with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers in the Oval Office on Feb. 2, 2016. [White House photo]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A source close to Russian President Vladimir Putin told me that the Russians have warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Moscow is prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons if necessary to save their troops in the face of a Turkish-Saudi onslaught. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, any such conflict could quickly escalate into a full-scale nuclear confrontation.Given Erdogan\u2019s megalomania or mental instability and the aggressiveness and inexperience of Saudi\u00a0Prince Mohammad bin Salman (defense minister and son of King Salman), the only person who probably can stop a Turkish-Saudi invasion is President Obama.<\/p>\n

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Risking Nuclear War for Al Qaeda? Exclusive:\u00a0The risk that\u00a0the multi-sided Syrian war could spark World War III continues\u00a0as Turkey,\u00a0Saudi Arabia and U.S. neocons seek an invasion that could\u00a0kill Russian troops \u2014 and possibly escalate the Syrian crisis into a nuclear showdown, amazingly\u00a0to protect\u00a0Al Qaeda terrorists, reports Robert Parry. When President Barack Obama took questions from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,3306,7913,1239,446,447,522,553,561,581,7330,7203,694,701,776,818,862],"class_list":["post-18017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-barack-obama","tag-erdogan","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-neocons","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nusra-front","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18019,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions\/18019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}