He had extensive influence in the United States. During his tenure as ambassador, he dealt with five US Presidents, ten Secretaries of State, eleven national security advisors, sixteen sessions of Congress, and the media. On 24 October 1983, Prince Bandar was appointed ambassador to the United States by King Fahd. However, in 1983, Fahd appointed Bandar as Saudi Ambassador to the United States.ДЄmbassador to the United States (1983вЂ“2005) In 1982, King Fahd made him the military attache at the Saudi Embassy, a move which could have ended his diplomatic career. Fahd made Bandar an emissary to Carter and granted him permission to act independently of the Saudi-U.S. He did and in exchange helped Carter win the support of South Dakota Democratic Senator James Abourezk for the Panama Canal Treaty. In the Oval Office, US President Carter told him to win the support of California governor Ronald Reagan. He successfully lobbied the United States Congress to approve the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia. His diplomatic career began in 1978 when he was appointed the King's personal envoy. Prince Bandar joined the Royal Saudi Air Force, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Prince Bandar was also the only foreigner present at Nelson MandelaвЂ™s secret wedding to Graca Machel and was a frequent visitor to South Africa when the arms deal was being negotiated. Saudi Arabia made lavish donations to the African National Congress. Other reports confirm that Prince Bandar also went to see Russian President Vladimir Putin in August 2013 and offered to buy $15bn worth of Russian weapons provided Mr Putin abandoned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This would be entirely in keeping with Prince BandarвЂ™s history of organising the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s, the Iran-Contra weapons exchanges, Libya in 2011, the suppression of the Shia uprising in Bahrain, Saudi support for the coup dвЂ™etat in Egypt and support for Syrian rebels. If true, it indicates the chemical attack in Damascus to have been a false-flag operation by the American war business. Reports from Syria by Jordanian journalists allege that it was Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia who distributed those chemical weapons to the Syrian rebels. Having targeted Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and other countries over the years, Syria and Egypt are Prince BandarвЂ™s current targets. Its purpose is a) to guarantee British and US support for the Saudi royal family against domestic insurrection and b) to fund covert destabilisation of resource-rich countries in Asia and Africa under the guise of the war on terror. Over the years a surplus has developed, which is guesstimated to be worth over $150bn. Saudi Arabia ships thousands of barrels per day of oil consigned to the Bank of England, which is then distributed to Shell and BP. Prince Bandar and Margaret Thatcher negotiated the Al-Yamamah deal under the UK Official Secrets Act, meaning that it cannot be investigated in Britain. The Guardian newspaper revealed a couple of months later how BAE Systems in collusion with the British government had laundered bribes to Prince Bandar of over ВЈ1bn through Riggs Bank in Washington DC and other US banks. When the UK Serious Fraud Office was making progress investigating bribes which BAE Systems paid him, Bandar allegedly threatened blood in the streets of London. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Afterward, he received a master's degree in International Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Bandar's military career ended in 1977 after he crash-landed his jet and suffered a severe back injury. He is a trained pilot and has flown numerous fighter aircraft.

He received additional training at Maxwell Air Force Base and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

It was decided that he and his mother should live with his paternal grandmother Hassa Al Sudairi in the palace.Д«andar graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1968. Bandar's isolation ended when he was eleven years old, a few years later when King Abdulaziz died. His first close contact with his father occurred when he was eight years old. Bandar lived with his mother and his aunt in his early years, and he had little contact with his father when he was very young. His mother, Khiziran, was a sixteen-year old commoner from Asir Province and his father, Sultan bin Abdulaziz, was in his early twenties at the time of Bandar's birth. He had reportedly faked his birthday to enter the Royal Saudi Air Force, His actual date of birth is later according to himself and Western think tanks. 7 Director General of Saudi Intelligence Agency (2012вЂ“2014)Д«andar was born officially on 2 March 1949 in Taif.6 Secretary-General of National Security Council (2005вЂ“present).5 Ambassador to the United States (1983вЂ“2005).

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