The White House has welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood, Gama’at al-Islamiyya and a Saudi clan whose sons fight for al-Qaeda

The Clarion Project - The world watched a stunning demonstration of Saudi financial muscle following the Egyptian coup d’état in early July 2013, as it pumped some $5 billion into bare Egyptian coffers in a single day. The timing and the display left little doubt that Saudi royals, who’d been deeply alarmed at the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt, have been very busy indeed behind the scenes with the Egyptian military.

Saudi alarm likely had as much to do with the chaos in Egyptian streets as it did with the Morsi Brotherhood regime’s burgeoning relationship with Iran, the Saudi nemesis in the Persian Gulf, Syria, and perhaps above all, in the nuclear weapons business.

With Egypt now deeply dependent on the Saudis and its other Gulf benefactors, like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait, the muddled U.S. position that remains stuck on Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) becomes less tenable by the day.

Which may help explain why the White House could be hedging its bets: as reported by The Blaze, a very odd guest seems to have shown up on the White House lawn this past July 4. According to a Twitter account identified as belonging to his father, Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi, the Saudi student who was named “a person of interest” in the Boston Marathon bombing attack, attended a July 4 event for military heroes and their families at the White House.   More