The latest NYT revelations of a US-Saudi partnership providing Syrian rebels with weapons lends more weight to the allegations made by Michael Springmann, former head of the US visa section in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 1987-1989.
He revealed that “during the 1980s, the CIA recruited and trained Muslim operatives to fight the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Later, the CIA would move those operatives from Afghanistan to the Balkans, and then to Iraq, Libya, and Syria, traveling on illegal US visas. These US-backed and trained fighters would morph into an organization that is synonymous with jihadist terrorism: al-Qaeda.”
