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2018-04-11 Arabia
Saudi considering proposal to set up military base, nuclear waste site on Qatar border
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Posted by Fred 2018-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia 

#1 A moat dug by Egyptian companies with experience in the Suez Canal more than 100 years ago?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-11 00:40||   2018-04-11 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing so exciting, Skidmark dear. They dug a new section in 2014-15. See here.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-11 00:44||   2018-04-11 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2018-04-11 02:09||   2018-04-11 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Rude. Maybe that's why I find myself laughing.
Posted by gorb 2018-04-11 07:05||   2018-04-11 07:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, I suppose the nuclear waste sites will be a good mask for orbital detectors.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-11 08:09||   2018-04-11 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 turning the peninsula-nation into an island and transforming its only land border into a military zone and nuclear waste site,

Saudi version of building a wall?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-11 09:12||   2018-04-11 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 As I recall, they piled up a long sand dune along at least some of the border with Yemen before the current excitements.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-11 12:27||   2018-04-11 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 I seem to recall that the term berm was used not to long ago for certain defensive structures in that area.

Posted by AlanC 2018-04-11 12:42||   2018-04-11 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Can we seize Harry Reid's ranch for public use ( à la Kelo) and put a nuclear waste repository there?
Posted by magpie 2018-04-11 14:17||   2018-04-11 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Re #8: 1973???
Posted by borgboy 2018-04-11 15:27||   2018-04-11 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 1991. Desert War I, the Iraqis built extensive earthen walls ('berms') in Kuwait.
Posted by magpie 2018-04-11 15:39||   2018-04-11 15:39|| Front Page Top

#12 And as I recall we put Dozer/cattle catcher blades on armored vehicles that buried the Elite Iraqi Army Divisions™ when they plowed thru
Posted by Frank G 2018-04-11 20:40||   2018-04-11 20:40|| Front Page Top

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