Posted on 06/09/2010 12:07:39 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
China Sold Nuclear Missiles to Saudi Arabia, Ex-CIA Officer Claims
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
An ex-CIA analyst who oversaw intelligence dispatches on Saudi Arabia has asserted in a new self-published book that China provided the Middle Eastern nation with nuclear-capable ballistic missiles during the early years of the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 24, 2009).
"I believe the People’s Republic of China delivered a turn-key nuclear ballistic missile system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the course of several years beginning no later than December 2003," asserted Jonathan Scherck in his book "Patriot Lost," which has not been approved by the CIA.
Scherck concluded that Beijing was selling Riyadh nuclear missiles based on his year and half of reviewing intelligence dispatches from Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2007, information on U.S. satellite photographs from these years, and conversations with other CIA personnel who were in touch with officials in former Vice President Dick Cheney's office.
He believed the Bush White House was keeping the nuclear deal secret in order to maintain ties with a key ally and major oil exporter, according to a press release: "This heavily shrouded deal and Washington’s shocking complicity constituted a flagrant violation of the long-standing but crippled Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty" (see GSN, June 1).
The book does not supply many concrete details to back up the nuclear assertion, according to the Post.
Copies of the book have been sent to Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee ranking member Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.).
Scherck worked briefly as a CIA employee and then as contract staffer at the agency. He wrote that his job as a go-between for field agents collecting human intelligence and officials with the National Security Council gave him uncommon access "to what was being said overseas at the time about Saudi Arabia’s procurement of a new ballistic missile system from China."
"I read things, I heard things, I saw things," Scherck wrote. "Admittedly, I did not see all -- but I saw enough."
In past years, there has been a regular stream of reports claiming covert cooperative nuclear and missile activities between China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (Jeff Stein, Washington Post, June 7).
ANd what woll the Saudi’s do with them, they are the least likely to go to war with Israel.
Sooner, rather than later, the Middle East is going to blow up.
Self-fulfilling prophecies which these idiots are more than willing to see happen in their lifetimes.
Israel better invest in iodine pills.
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Balancing Iran and Israel, would be my guess.
So should we. And isn’t it iodide for protection? Straight iodine would be problematic wouldn’t it.
heard this through Avi Lipkin several years ago...
The Saudis are not, nor never have been, overly concerned about Israel. These missiles are for one purpose, and one purpose alone. Iran...
the infowarrior
LOL, you’re right. I just remembered the principal element in it, off the bat.
LOL, you’re right. I just remembered the principal element in it, off the bat.
Saudi Arabia would nuke Iran or Pakistan before they nuked Israel.
They are stupid but not crazy.
So much for the efforts of the world’s smartest woman and Mr. Peace Prize...
Supposing this is true, and that is not something I would want to wager any money on, it’s obvious that the Saudi’s missile capacity is intended to counterweight Iran’s.
Saudi Arabia is not worried about destabilizing proselytizing Jews. They are, however, worried about increasing Iranian bellicosity and Shiite unrest.
His TREASON was clearly discussed in the Limbaugh Letter, under the article,"RUSH: My Conversation With Christopher Cox", which I posted on the FR, but the link no longer works.
The Saudis are terrified of a nuclear capable Shia nation that is practically on their border.
“Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! “
The Saudis might indeed use a nuke on Israel, if they were attacked, even though the Israeli counter-strike would be completely devastating. The problem for the Muslim world would be that the Israelis could completely level Mecca and/or Medina (or Riyadh); how the Muslim religion would survive that is more than just problematical.
I think the iodide can be purchased at a health food store, but I may be wrong.
Iodine is what you want to block from entering the ‘hypo thalmus’ is it? I think that’s right.
No big. Reading up on it on the internet should clear up the question.
Take care. Thanks for the response.
Thank you, and stay safe!
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