'Saudi Arabia working on plans to build a nuclear power plant'

Jerusalem Post ^ | 8/20/09 | HERB KEINON AND YAAKOV KATZ

[Nachum]

With the world seemingly unable to stop Iran's nuclear march, other countries in the region are now pushing forward with their own plans to build nuclear power plants.

The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported on Thursday that the Saudi minister of water and electricity, Abdullah al-Hosain, said the kingdom was working on plans for its first nuclear power plant. The US inked civil nuclear power deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates last year.

[Nachum]

Oh great.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Let’s conquer them like we should have done in 2002.

[Nathan Zachary]

I wonder when we are going to hear from remote pygmy tribes in Africa demanding their first nuclear reactor?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

In March 1988, two years after the deal was struck, it was discovered that Saudi Arabia had bought an undisclosed number of CSS-2 "East Wind" intermediate range missiles from China. The number was later put at 50 missiles and nine launchers. According to Assistant Secretary of State Richard Clarke, the missiles were still not operational in late 1989.On May 30, 2006, high-resolution satellite images of Saudi missile bases and details of Saudi ballistic missile capabilities were posted on the Islamist website al-Khayma

[iowamark]

Ridiculous. Saudi Arabia, and Iran and the other Gulf States have so much natural gas that they burn it as waste. The last thing they actually need is nuclear power.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Picture of the main Saudi missile base.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

They want nuclear bombs and they have the means to deliver them.

[biff]

So, it looks to me like there is no stopping an eventual nuke-u-lar shoot em up in the middle east by fractioned muzzies and little ole Isreal. The question is, do we let em have at it or what can we do to stop it? Will the muzzies melt the desert sands into a nice glass covered parking lot, contaminating everything in sight including all the oil facilities? If so, world price of oil goes to 3 or 4 hundred/barrel or more?

Wonder how that 20 mile commute in Minnesota in January on a 50cc moped would be like? Or El Paso to Dallas in August?

Being a baby boomer I lived thru the stupid duck and cover exercises and all the hype and publicity. But all thru it I always hoped the Ruskies knew the full ramifications of an all out nuclear war just like the Muricans did. The muzzies though are quite different, it is obvious they are stupid enough to crap in their own house. I wonder if MAD will work over there?

[John Will]

Was that a Saudi who said that nuclear power came from Genies?

[SQUID]

Who from the US inked it?