Saudi Arabia developing WMD; aided by Pakistan

[Sixpack]

Little article about it in today's Dutch news referring to German magazine Cicero.

Only in Dutch:
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Buitenland

wo 29 mrt 2006, 08:28
Saudi-Arabië ontwikkelt met Pakistan kernprogramma
BERLIJN - Saudi-Arabië ontwikkelt in het geheim een kernprogramma en krijgt daarbij hulp van Pakistaanse deskundigen. Dat meldt het Duitse tijdschrift Cicero in de editie van donderdag op gezag van Westerse veiligheidsdiensten.Pakistaanse wetenschappers zouden tijdens de hadj van 2003 tot 2005 verkleed als pelgrims naar Saudi-Arabië zijn gereisd. Saudische wetenschappers zouden sinds tien jaar in Pakistan werken. Pakistan is een kernmacht sinds 1998. Uit satellietbeelden zou blijken dat in Al-Sulaiyil, ten zuiden van de hoofdstad Riyad, een ondergrondse stad is gebouwd met tientallen ondergrondse silo's voor kernraketten.
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Cant find a link alas.

Anyone in Deutschland perhaps ?

Anyway, allegedly Pakistani experts entered SA in secrecy during the Hadjs in 2003-2005, disguised ad pilgrims.

Satellites have already revealed an enormous underground city with dozens of silos for nucl. missiles. South of Riyad.

The buildup to the final showdown continues....

[The Avon Lady]

Already posted at LGF (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19822_Our_Friends_the_Nuclear_Saudis), which links to an English language news article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060328/wl_mideast_afp/germanysarabiapakistan) from AFP.

[Sixpack]

Thanks:

The magazine also said satellite images prove that Saudi Arabia has set up in Al-Sulaiyil, south of Riyadh, a secret underground city and dozens of underground silos for missiles.

According to some Western security services, long-range Ghauri-type missiles of Pakistani-origin are housed inside the silos.

[STEED]

Not another Arms race is it?

[Happy Times]

I knew it! They are the ones that should have been invaded, have said this before. They are the ones that finance most of this world wide jihad. Just like their ancestors, at day, they will smile and trade with you, at night they will come back to stab you and steal it back.

[Sixpack]

Where is Mecca ?

Where was that chap Mohammed born, after whom 50% of Amsterdam's new borns are named ?

Wake up call, George Bu$h and fellow Americans. Hey, why dontcha take a bicycle to work for a change huh :lol:

[Vinay]

long-range Ghauri-type missiles of Pakistani-origin

I think you don't know about the Paint job.

Check this out:
DPRK - Pakistan Ghauri Missile Cooperation
http://www.fas.org/news/pakistan/1998/05/ghauri2.htm

This proliferation by PRC and DPRK has resulted in the threat level increasing all over the world. It not only has affected India but countries like Israel. Proliferation ls like AIDS. Spreads very fast. Who knows within few years it may reach Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc etc. The range of this missiles are also a cause for great concern.

[scandium]

I knew it! They are the ones that should have been invaded, have said this before. They are the ones that finance most of this world wide jihad. Just like their ancestors, at day, they will smile and trade with you, at night they will come back to stab you and steal it back.

There exists a curious relationship between the West and Saudi Arabia. In terms of repression, they are one of the most repressive countries in the world and still practice state sanctioned execution by beheading. In terms of terrorist connections, of the 19 hijackers on 9/11, 15 were from Saudia Arabia, which also happens to be the nationality and birthplace of Bin Laden.

Yet not a peep from the Bush administration on Saudi Arabia (other than in the context of them being our good friends and allies), and rarely do we ever hear mention of them in the news.

[Vinay]

Till recently the terrorists were the best friend of the U.S administration in the war on Terror. After realising that the terrorists cannot be eliminated without destroying the training camps and the fund flow the U.S is reversing its policy. This is a good move. It will have an impact on terrorists worldwide. Till they remove the roots, terrorism will remain.

[Deamon]

Saudi Arabia is the swizerland of the middle east. And it wasn't Bin Laden who is responsible for 9/11 but the saudis !

Deamon

[The Avon Lady]

Saudi Arabia is the swizerland of the middle east. And it wasn't Bin Laden who is responsible for 9/11 but the saudis !
And this is based on? :hmm:

[joea]

Saudi Arabia is the swizerland of the middle east. And it wasn't Bin Laden who is responsible for 9/11 but the saudis !
And this is based on? :hmm:

They come here every summer to shop, and got a fair amount of assets in banks here.

:hmm:

[The Avon Lady]

Saudi Arabia is the swizerland of the middle east. And it wasn't Bin Laden who is responsible for 9/11 but the saudis !
And this is based on? :hmm:

They come here every summer to shop, and got a fair amount of assets in banks here.
:hmm:
So do my hubby and myself.

:P

[tycho102]

I'll bet Saudi Arabia has a clandestine weapons program.

Wahabi want to destroy the filth of Shi'a. Shi'a want to destroy the filth of Sunni. Sunni want to destroy the filth of Wahabi. And every possible permutation of those three sects warring against the others.

Iran is spreading a tremendous amount of influence into Iraq's Shi'a. This will eventually backfire on them, since each imam is bucking for Ayatollah; you can always count on an imam's gang to vie for power against his rivals. Ambition will limit the scope of Iran's influence, solely due to geographical distances and poor transportation infrastructure.


So, Saudi Arabia is feeling the combined Iraq/Iran Shi'a pressure. It's funny, because they were sending all their civilian Jihadists to Syria, and then across the Iraq border to kill Shi'a. They've depopulated their own surplus of Jihad fighters (I don't know how many Saudi mujahideen we've killed, but I would not be surprised at 30,000), and Iran still has control of Iraq.

By Allah, Saudi Arabia is feeling the Shi'a pressure, and they they've been sweating Iran's arms program for years. It's only just come to a real "crisis" when it was obvious that Iran had won The War.


The War for control of Iraq.

[scandium]

Wikipedia has some good background information on Saudi Arabia. Some highlights:

"The central institution of Saudi Arabian Government is the Saudi monarchy. The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of the first king, Abd Al Aziz Al Saud, and that the Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a).

There are no recognized political parties or national elections. The king is often classified as an absolute monarch, but his powers are theoretically limited within the bounds of Shari'a and other Saudi traditions...

[snip]

Saudi courts impose capital punishment and corporal punishment, including amputations of hands and feet for serious robbery, and floggings for lesser crimes such as "sexual deviance" (e.g. homosexuality) and drunkenness. The number of lashes is not clearly prescribed by law and varies according to the discretion of the presiding judges. The number ranges from dozens to several thousand, usually applied over a period of weeks or months

[snip]

The exit and entry visa cards ask applicants for their religious affiliation and officially bans entry to atheists, Jews or anyone with an official stamp from the State of Israel."


The jewel of the Middle East.

[MadMike]

Saudi Arabia has had CSS-2 missiles since 1988. For more info,
click on the link (old news to those of you who used to read Jane's)-

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/saudi.htm

Yours, Mike