Forbes (2006): Saudi Arabia working on secret nuclear program with Pakistan help

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Saudia Arabia working on secret nuclear program with Pakistan help - report
03.28.2006, 08:47 PM
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2006/03/28/afx2629000.html

BERLIN (AFX) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reported in its latest edition, citing Western security sources.

It says that during the Haj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia.

Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of them slipped off from pilgrimages, sometimes for up to three weeks, the report quoted German security expert Udo Ulfkotte as saying.

According to Western security services, the magazine added, Saudi scientists have been working since the mid-1990s in Pakistan, a nuclear power since 1998.

Cicero, which will appear on newstands tomorrow, also quoted a US military analyst, John Pike, as saying that Saudi bar codes can be found on half of Pakistan's nuclear weapons 'because it is Saudi Arabia which ultimately co-financed the Pakistani atomic nuclear program.'

The magazine also said satellite images indicate that Saudi Arabia has set up a program 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.

[JDPriestly]

1. And, since Bush is Saudi Arabia's dude in the White House, the U.S.

turned a blind eye. This is another one of those realities that the Bushies are letting slip out now before they become a big scandal when Obama is president. Now we know why we were so supportive of Musharraf. I know you won't believe me, but I have suspected that S.A. was working on a bomb. They wanted the U.S. in Iraq, but only just long enough to give them cover. And all the broohaha about Iran and its nuclear aspirations? Who has been inspecting installations in S.A.? No one.