Saudi Arabia's Secret Missile City in the Middle of the Desert

http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Mar-29-02.htm#Riyadh ^ | This piece ran in Yediot Aharonot on March 27, 2002 | Ronen Bergman.Senior Investigative Journalist, Yediot Aharonot

[Nogbad]

They all would cut our throats if they didn't need American dollars and Scotch whiskey so badly.

[brat]

I suppose the Saudi's were quick to upgrade after China's US technology coup. And those will reach a city near you.

[Tennessee_Bob]

A buddy of mine that was stationed over there said he had never seen so many over the airfield ejections in his life. Compressor stall? Pull the D-ring. Edge of a stall? Pull the d-ring.

[maquiladora]

[sheik yerbouty]

It's not a secret now.

[dennisw]

P4T533-C ..... Great photo.

[mathurine]

If this nuke information is true or largely true, the Saudis may have put their islamic butt in a vise. No small, special interest nation is going to get away with using a few nukes without being utterly and totally destroyed in the retaliatiatory action. Their capacity for counter-retaliation will be slight or nil. Their money in the bank will be reparations. The Holy Places would be spared as much as possible from physical damage, out of respect for international law and sensitivities, but because of the radioactive waste round about, visits there would be made at great peril, and it might be a generation or two before the visit a mohammedan should make there in his lifetime could be made safely. Nobody ever accused them of being smart; rich? yes; shrewd? often? Smart? I don't think so.

[mathurine]

If this nuke information is true or largely true, the Saudis may have put their islamic butt in a vise. No small, special interest nation is going to get away with using a few nukes without being utterly and totally destroyed in the retaliatiatory action. Their capacity for counter-retaliation will be slight or nil. Their money in the bank will be reparations. The Holy Places would be spared as much as possible from physical damage, out of respect for international law and sensitivities, but because of the radioactive waste round about, visits there would be made at great peril, and it might be a generation or two before the visit a mohammedan should make there in his lifetime could be made safely. Nobody ever accused them of being smart; rich? yes; shrewd? often? Smart? I don't think so.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from April 2002.

[AdmSmith]

This one
Saudis developing nuclear weapons - report

Saudi Arabia is clandestinely developing nuclear weapons, according to a report appearing Wednesday on a Saudi Arabic-language news website.

Pakistani nuclear scientists who secretly entered Saudi Arabia during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in 2003 have been the driving force behind the covert nuclear program, reported the Sawt Al-Salam website. Iraqi nuclear scientists were also said to have been recruited.

The Pakistanis reportedly instructed their Saudi hosts to construct their nuclear facilities under prisons to avoid detection. The website cited intelligence reports that indicated the Saudis are constructing a massive underground nuclear center and missile base south of the capital of Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia was widely believed to be a major financier of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program in the 1990s.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13571

is from 2007, but we should be able to find updated info

[SunkenCiv]

IMHO, if Israel feels it’s going to be abandoned by the US anyway, it’ll redraw the map of the Middle East in about ten minutes’ time, grab the oilfields, and kick out what’s left of the Arabs. Then the price of crude will stabilize, and everyone will kiss Israel’s feet or else. :’)

[hihoherman]

Yup. Israel is well aware of the saud’s. And, their purchasing powers. They also know the arab mindset. Where instructions must come from above. And, this builds in major fault lines.

For instance. If the missiles were operational in 1995, why weren’t they deployed when Saddam began massing at the Kuwaiti border, just to see what Clinton would do, in 1998?

And, what about those fancy F-15’s. Delivered to the saud’s. While the pilots were trained in Utah? Hmm? Did you know the Israelis said it was typical of saudi pilots to go out and get drunk? Because they wouldn’t flunk flight school.

You also don’t know what the repairs, or even testing cycles are. Just lots of heat and sand. And, no testing.

Israel’s moved right. While America just went left, unhappy with what the republicans did when they were in charge. Israel’s right is not worried about abortion, or creationism, either. Much more serious heads will get down to business, if it proves to be necessary. I can believe that.