The former Saudi ambassador & actual Minister, Abdul aziz Khoja told Jeffrey Feltman some the following, and these are just samples as they encapsulate the financial umbilical chord that attaches March14 to the KSA, with all that this entails:
"...Khoja used the example of MP MohammedSafadi. Saudi Arabia theoretically could ask him to go toparliament, given Safadi's business ties with Prince Turkibin Nasser. But since King Abdullah is opposed to ahalf-plus-one election anyway, Saudi Arabia would not askSafadi to participate..... (In another instance),Khoja said, King Abdullah has counseled Hariri to wait until after legislative elections before becoming premier. While Hariri had no choice but to say "yes, sir," he then went to Khoja to plead for help in convincing the king to change his mind .... (and yet in another) Hamadeh noted that he and Druse leader Walid Jumblatt would travel to Saudi Arabia this week, and he hoped the U.S. would put in a good word with the Saudis to "give Walid three or four million dollars" to keep the Druse on the side of March 14..... arguing that the Lebanese will remember who handed out cash, not who built bridges. "We are whores in that way," Marwan said... (more,) Whispering to the Ambassador, Khoja said that "we must help Saad (Hariri), Walid (Jumblatt), and even (Samir) Geagea," with money and arms.... etc....etc..."
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