Middle East Focus: Medieval Nuclear: the Not So Secret Saudi Nuclear Arsenal………….

Arabia Deserta

Medieval Nuclear: the Not So Secret Saudi Nuclear Arsenal………….

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“THE arrival yesterday of a senior United Nations team in Tehran has raised hopes that Iran may be in the mood to talk about its nuclear program. But there are growing fears that neighbouring Saudi Arabia will turn to Pakistan for its own bomb if Iran develops nuclear weapons. The two nations' military officers train together, Saudi Arabia has reportedly bought Pakistani missiles and the Saudi air force was created using Pakistani training, aircraft and pilots. When Pakistan tested its first nuclear device in 1998 and was placed under sanctions by an outraged US and Europe, 50,000 free barrels of oil a day from Saudi Arabia helped it survive. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, hundreds of millions of Saudi dollars were poured into Pakistan's efforts to build nuclear weapons, funding as much as 60 per cent of the program. That money was given, it is widely believed, on an understanding that Pakistan would offer Saudi Arabia nuclear protection, or, at some future date, the chance to buy weapons……......”

So these medieval absolute reactionary princes, flush with petro-cash, in this year of Our Lord 2012, not only can buy the leaders in Washington (DC) and London, they can buy a whole weaponized nuclear program. According to this report, they already have a nuclear program located in Pakistan. This may explain how impoverished quasi-Wahhabi Pakistan (Wahhabi outside the major cities) could afford to build the nuclear bombs. This way the Saudis don’t need to change their university curricula by switching from heavy emphasis on Wahhabi Salafi Shari’a to, say, nuclear physics. The religious shaikhs and the Muftis will remain happy.

The Pakistan connection has been in the media, on and off, for some years. It used to be vague, some credible reports about Pakistan’s military being ready to deploy to the Arabian Peninsula to protect the Saudi dynasty in case of trouble. There is the thorny issue of the fact that perhaps some 20% - 25% of Pakistani soldiers are Shi’as, and the Gulf potentates can’t condone even their own native Shi’as in the security and armed forces. I am not sure how the Bahrain despots check for that when they recruit mercenaries from Pakistan. They can’t give their recruits the Nazi-style circumcision test: everybody has it done.

Anyway, now the al-Nahayan brothers, potentates of the UAE, are dying of jealousy. They are probably frantically seeking for a source of their own nuclear bombs. Pakistan is apparently taken, but that doesn’t mean some Pakistanis won’t play the field, as they say. A. Q. Khan played the field far and wide. We should start worrying if we read reports of a delegation of Abu Dhabi potentates visiting Pyongyang.
If you thought nuclear bombs in Iranian hands are dangerous, just think of nuclear bombs in the very same hands that created Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban.
Cheers
mhg

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