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2007-02-17 Arabia

Saudis to purchase nuclear option, advanced missiles and spy satellites off the shelf from Pakis

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Posted by 3dc 2007-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Regional Muslim govts fear nuclear IRAN More than Israel or America.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-17 00:07|| 2007-02-17 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 What am I supposed to do about that?

Posted by Ehud Olmert 2007-02-17 05:17|| 2007-02-17 05:17|| Front Page Top

#3 epic accord of 7 secret clauses

Debka's new writer used to work at KFC.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-17 08:28|| 2007-02-17 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The Saudi purchase of a regiment of Al Khalid tanks (a Pak knockoff of a Chinese Knockoff of an old Soviet tank) points to something here.
Saudi has brand new M1A1 Abrams MBTs in storage and certainly doesn't need Pak junk.

The tanks are to equip a Pak brigade. Now the Paks have never won a war and a brigade cannot protect Saudi so why bear the expense ?

The Pak brigade is reportedly there to protect "strategic assets" located there - nuclear armed IRBMs (missiles sold to Pakistan by China and North Korea).

The Saudis paid for the Pak nuclear program and now want the deterrent on their soil.

Posted by John Frum 2007-02-17 08:56|| 2007-02-17 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The Saudis are now getting the Cargo that they have always desired, Mr. Frum. And the Russians sell to both sides.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-02-17 13:34|| 2007-02-17 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Ooooh, Pakistani made nukes being maintained by Pakistani and Saudi technicians. Which way is the smart money betting: really expensive paperweights, or self-induced patches of glass?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-17 15:37|| 2007-02-17 15:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't know Trailing but my first thought was, we are so going to get nuked.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-17 16:27|| 2007-02-17 16:27|| Front Page Top

#8 That's the third option, Icerigger dear, but I'm really, really hoping the other smart players are voting for one of the other two.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-17 21:22|| 2007-02-17 21:22|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess if Iran nukes the oil fields of Saudi Arabia & Saudistan nukes the oil fields of Iran, the jihad will run out of money & thus significance rather quickly. The rest of us will have to get a horse & resume our ancestor's Amish lifestyles.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-17 21:31|| 2007-02-17 21:31|| Front Page Top

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