Our buddies, the Saudis going nuclear?

[Ernesto]

However, in 2005, the US claims to have acquired fresh evidence that suggests a broader government-to-government Pakistani-Saudi atomic collaboration that could be continuing. According to well-placed diplomatic sources, chartered Saudi C-130 Hercules transporters made scores of trips between the Dhahran military base and several Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Karachi, between October 2003 and October 2004, and thereafter, considerable contacts were reported between Pakistani and Saudi nuclear scientists. Between October 2004 and January 2005, under cover of the hajj (pilgrimage), several Pakistani scientists allegedly visited Riyadh, and remained "missing" from their designated hotels for 15 to 20 days
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GG07Df05.html

[shoelace414]

1. our second best friends..

the Pakistani, they are harboring OBL, and one of their national heroes was giving away nuke secrets, and was subsequently pardoned before IAEA could question him.

[Moochy]

4. Porter Goss has a pretty good idear

This is the reason given for why we can't get him.

step 1) get obl

step 2) watch musharraf's govt. fail to islamic fundies in his govt.

step 3) Theocratic state with :nuke:

Not saying I buy it, but that's the jist of it.

[shoelace414]

5. that's exactly the reason

The fundies are almost running Pakistan. We let musharaaf do anything he wants because he's not as bad as who is waiting in the wings.

[Ernesto]

6. kinda like....

a guy named Saddam, a couple of decades ago. or maybe the Sha of Iran a little earlier?

[shoelace414]

7. bing bing bing bing

[converted_democrat]

2. I might have my facts wrong, and if I do, please correct me.........

But didn't we just give SA a free pass when it comes to nuke inspection?

[leveymg]

3. And, why would they announce a "doomsday" plan to blow up their own oil

fields in case of invasion? Who do they fear might do the invading? Hmm?

If one reads the "American Judas" material on what Cheney and Halliburton are alledged to have done to facilitate nuclear proliferation in the region, one gets the distinct impression that certain elements of the Saudi elites already have nukes.

One wonders what the ultimate act of the "War of Civilizations" envisioned by Huntington, PNAC, and others might bring? One might guess that would be a grab for "The Prize": $16 trillion worth of Saudi crude beckons, and provides a strong incentive to all sorts of scenario planning.:evilgrin:

[understandinglife]

8. fyi: a related thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4070938&mesg_id=4070938

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[applegrove]

9. They know that 'having the bomb' is the only way to get the USA

off their backs. Now that the USA is trying to undo all world elites in order to replace them with its corporate hegemony.