US Moves Equipment From Saudi Base to Qatar

Saudi Information Agency and STRATFOR Military/Strategic Forcasting ^ | March 19, 2002 02:40 Greenwich Mean Time | Situation Report Staff

[codebreaker]

U.S. military forces are moving out of Sultan Air Base Saudi Arabia, according to an unconfirmed report from the Saudi Information Agency, a Washington D.C. based dissident group.

The equipment is allegedly being moved to a military base in neigboring Qatar, which also hosts U.S. forces.

The report comes after a Washington Post story in January that quoted an unnamed Saudi embassy official as saying the kingdom would ask Washington to move its forces out.

If true, the move may be related to a possible military campaign against Iraq.

[codebreaker]

Saudis getting cold feet before the big dance?

[StriperSniper]

They will be nice so that we don't have another 'accident' and blow Al-Jazeera(sp?) off the air like we did to them in Afghanistan.

;-)

[phasma proeliator]

Those bastards always have cold feet.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Guess they just don't like us.

[AmericanInTokyo]

...all the signs are that we are moving in the direction of the Great Showdown. Late April? Late May?

[StriperSniper]

They meaning Qatar.

[No Truce With Kings]

Saudis getting cold feet before the big dance?

More like the U.S. doesn't want to take the ugly girl in the burka to the dance.

We are pre-positioning equipment where it does not matter whether we get Saudi approval for our actions.

[Bobby777]

and our forces were attacked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1996, yes? ... by the truck bomb? ... Saudi Arabia doesn't offer much protection anyway ...

[Robert_Paulson2]

Nope,

but they ARE releasing this disinformation, in order to try and keep their dissident wahib population from revolting and taking the heads off the royal family when we invade Iraq.

We don't need the Sauds to win our battles. That they feel the need to placate the masses, via disinformation or via actual removal of our men and materiels... is a sad commentary on their "friendship" status.

We are going to need to "rearrange" the entire "arab street" for the next ten to twenty years... Saudi Arabia included.

[codebreaker]

Hard to tell, could be early.

[pad 34]

Don't blindly trust anything from a Saudi dissident group.

[codebreaker]

Agreed, this is for Saudi locals comsumption.

[Mixer]

I am thinkiing that it was our decision to move them.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #9

Maybe we can really get out and come back later as their fearsome enemy. Destroy all infrastructures so that they can live in a tent just as their ancestors were.

[ridensm]

We are going to need to "rearrange" the entire "arab street" for the next ten to twenty years... Saudi Arabia included.

That sounds ominous. So what your saying is anything good for America is good for the world? We decide who gets to do what, where they do it, and how they do it? And anyone who doesn't listen to us gets hit with our big stick? That isn't the kind of America I will feel proud to live in but I do agree it is probably what will happen.

[MJY1288]

BINGO, The Saudi's are not stupid enough to kick us out of there. Who would defend them?

[codebreaker]

I love surprises on Saddam.

[Salman]

That sounds ominous. So what your saying is anything good for America is good for the world?

It can't be good for America if it's bad for everyone else.
But it might be bad for some folks.

[Hugin]

On a thread a couple of days ago I posted, "I seem to remember that after the gulf war we left enough equipment for two armored divisions in Saudi Arabia. Maybe we should just remove them now--like say, to Bagdhad."

Great minds, it seems, really do think alike. :~)

[Southack]

"That sounds ominous. So what your saying is anything good for America is good for the world? We decide who gets to do what, where they do it, and how they do it? And anyone who doesn't listen to us gets hit with our big stick? That isn't the kind of America I will feel proud to live in but I do agree it is probably what will happen."

Such are the geo-political, global consequences that result from attacking the mightiest economic and military super-power to have ever existed on this planet.

We were the sleeping giant. Those who don't like their little peasant countries getting kicked around should remember that fact in the future and think "Perhaps it's best not to wake up the Americans again."

I give you Japan and Germany from 1941-1945 as examples. They'll never attack us again, and it wasn't because we "made nice" with them.

Sometimes, the unpleasant use of force is the only language that get's the point across: Don't mess with America.