Saudis supporting Sunni insurgents in Iraq

This certainly isn't a surprise, but it's the first place I've seen it stated plainly as fact. (Buried in a Joe Klein piece on the flawed alternatives left in Iraq.)

In recent months, according to U.S. intelligence sources, the Saudis and Jordanians, who are predominantly Sunni, have quietly moved to support the insurgency with money and intelligence, fearing that Shi'ite Iran will dominate the new Iraqi government if the U.S. decides to leave.

Okay, so, Iran supplying weapons to Hezbullah, "Axis of Evil," source of all that is dark and evil in the universe. Saudi Arabia is supplying an Iraqi insurgency that is actually targeting and killing Americans and is deemed an ally in the war on terror worthy of weapons sales.

It seems to me that the Bush administration is completely freaking out at the reality that their failed Iraq war has created that Shia crescent that Chris Matthews keeps going on about. Not only have they lost Iraq, but they're losing the region.

That adds a slightly different flavor to the increased US attacks on Iraq's Shia militias. And just how firm is pro-Iran, pro-Hezbullah Iraqi Prime Minister Nour al Maliki right now? So long as SCIRI and Maliki's Dawa party stand with him, he won't lose his position through parliamentary action, but the US is not best pleased with Maliki right now, and there are the rumors passing around.