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| Saudis developing nuclear weapons |
| 2007-07-27 |
| I don't know how trustworthy the source is, but the article was posted at Lucianne.com, and I thought it would be of interest to Rantburg. Saudi Arabia is clandestinely developing nuclear weapons, according to a report appearing Wednesday on a Saudi Arabic-language news website. Pakistani nuclear scientists who secretly entered Saudi Arabia during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in 2003 have been the driving force behind the covert nuclear program, reported the Sawt Al-Salam website. Iraqi nuclear scientists were also said to have been recruited. The Pakistanis reportedly instructed their Saudi hosts to construct their nuclear facilities under prisons to avoid detection. The website cited intelligence reports that indicated the Saudis are constructing a massive underground nuclear center and missile base south of the capital of Riyadh. Saudi Arabia was widely believed to be a major financier of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program in the 1990s. This does comport with a dispatch at the Middle East Media Research Institute website from November of last year, the key section which states, "In Light of Current Events in the Region, the Time Has Come to Renew the Saudi Nuclear Program". |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #29 Never let it be said I don't know how to throw a proper tea party Bah! No such thing crossed |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-27 23:16 |
| #28 Oh, I wouldn't dream of waitressing, Zenster dear. I'll just sit quietly and pour out the tea, and all you great big strong types can help yourself to the something strongers over there on the sideboard, should y'all prefer. Never let it be said I don't know how to throw a proper tea party, with the occasional dancing on the tables as necessary. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-27 22:14 |
| #27 Maybe the rumor is "under prisons" because their head-choppers arms are getting tired and having some prisons vaporised by any player gets the head-choppers a vacation. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-27 20:44 |
| #26 One Helluva tea party? Darling, tw. If you waitress the party how in the Hell will we have any sort of fun?!? Don't bother counting the silver, just set back and let us brutes do the heavy lifting and all that. Emkay? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-27 19:08 |
| #25 One Helluva tea party? I'd better start baking now, and count my tea cups. I did get a second set of dessert plates some months back, so that won't be an issue... and I've plenty of demitasse cups for the caffeine fiends. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-27 17:02 |
| #24 A succint deconstruction of the dysfunctional and wholly illogical LLL attitude if I've ever heard one. Yup, eltoroverde. If "peace at any price" is Islam's surcharge, we'd better get ready for one Helluva a tea party. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-27 16:02 |
| #23 "The peace at any price movement." A succint deconstruction of the dysfunctional and wholly illogical LLL attitude if I've ever heard one. I love it. |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2007-07-27 15:29 |
| #22 "Under Pakistani Guard" more or less means a Pakistani armored brigade, or so I understood. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-07-27 14:37 |
| #21 thanks |
| Posted by: Jan from work 2007-07-27 14:32 |
| #20 Rumor was the Saudis had nukes under Pakistani guard. They were to be delivered by the 40-60 Chinese CSS-2 ballistic missiles (2500km range) the Sauds bought. The CSS-2 had no other use since with a 1-2km target error they could barely hit a city center but could easily lift the 1000kg warhead design the Chinese gave to the Paks. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-07-27 13:33 |
| #19 A prison already has a high-security perimeter and lots of cheap labor. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-07-27 13:17 |
| #18 how does one hide nuclear facilities under a prison? Or why a prison? My guess is it would be a large area that satellite photos wouldn't pick up as suspicious. Any Gitmo detainees returned for Saudi incarceration or Iraqi scientists supposedly under arrest following Saddam's demise would be on site & not draw attention by activity. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2007-07-27 11:31 |
| #17 the peace at any price movement Man alive, OldSpook. That needs to become the new "Peace in our time" albatross we hang around the left's worthless neck. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-27 11:08 |
| #16 Folks, this is one of the consequences of us losing in Iraq: the increased nuclearization of the middle east - in response to the Persian nukes and the lack of a counterbalance to the Persians in the region (with Iraq gone that is). Hang this on Murth's fat bejoweled head - him, Pelosi and Reid and the whole the peace at any price movement. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-07-27 10:05 |
| #15 C'mon - you knew there was a big-ticket backer for Dr. Khan's little operation, didn't ya? |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-07-27 10:03 |
| #14 why is it every time i come out of a josephmendiola comment the haze is staring too fade and there he comes again. IOW speak english for us morons |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-07-27 09:07 |
| #13 crosspatch: If I were Musharraf, I would be GIVING Saudi Arabia my own nukes for safe keeping Yeesh. The house of Saud seems more like a house of cards. Not the safest bet. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-07-27 08:23 |
| #12 The Pakistan/Saudi Relationship strikes again!!!!!! The Religious hierachy in Saudis funds most of the Jihadi groups worldwide!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul 2007-07-27 06:17 |
| #11 They financed Pakistan's project, so there has been a rumor that they were given a couple in return. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-07-27 02:59 |
| #10 Among other premises or agendas, WOT > STATUS QUO is no longer acceptable or tolerable. Ergo, WOT > for the enemies of the USA-West > IS AN "APOCALYPSE", A CATASTROPHIC EPOCH-APEX = POINT OF DECISION = POINT OF NO RETURN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-07-27 02:11 |
| #9 If I were Musharraf, I would be GIVING Saudi Arabia my own nukes for safe keeping. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-07-27 01:51 |
| #8 how does one hide nuclear facilities under a prison? Or why a prison? |
| Posted by: Jan 2007-07-27 01:39 |
| #7 The Saudis have oil and want nukes The Chinese have nukes and want oil Alistaire Glomble6460, you make waaaaaay too much sense! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-27 01:31 |
| #6 The Saudis have oil and want nukes The Chinese have nukes and want oil The deal WILL be made. Why would the Saudis go to all the trouble of developing a full nuclear program when they can just do what they normally do? Cash on the barrel-head so to speak. |
| Posted by: Alistaire Glomble6460 2007-07-27 01:15 |
| #5 This charade is over. Only for us. Our political traitor elite surely thinks otherwise. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-27 00:39 |
| #4 Hmmm. Seems that Soddies are keen to fulfill the old Arab prophecy that Mecca would be burned with heaven's fire and turned into glowing gravel. No, not by us. It sez by people of their own creed. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-27 00:35 |
| #3 And then there's RENSE/RUMORMILLNEWS > THE NUCLEAR DELIVERY TORPEDO article involving secret North Korean nuke tech transhipments aboard NK maritme freighters. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-07-27 00:27 |
| #2 Also one related article on RIAN and WAFF.com, where the PAKIS nuke arsenal is indic as consisting of up to 40 devices = weapons, excluding missles. Pakis themselves also reportedly construx underground, deep and wide. WAFF.com > ISRAEL's nuke arsenal reportedly listed as comprising 00's of both fusion and fission bombs, wid 450 KT-yield warheads upon JERICHO missles. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-07-27 00:16 |
| #1 We know this already. Lovely Iran "dove of peace" sparked an arab arms race. How peaceful is that. Now I AM looking at all of Ishmael with detest and disgust. What a rotted place they put themselves in. But again, it is easier to drill through glass than through their thick heads. Just tell me when they have ability to OP. This charade is over. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-07-27 00:12 |