SAUDIS THROW U.S. COMMAND CENTER EQUIPMENT INTO DESERT TO ROT-Convinced of 'Back Door' Monitoring..

DEBKA Hebrew Version and World Net Daily.com ^ | April 21, 2002 GMT | Giora Shamis Chief Edior and CEO and Diane Shalem English Editor

[codebreaker]

Also in the new update for Monday (very long)..

Saudis will hold an oil boycott with Venezuela if Isreal does not launch new attacks with no major retaliations for bombings within 10 to 14 days.

This will enable the Bush Summit to proceed as planned, embargo to be postponed after the Bush-Abdullah talks at the ranch later this month.

Saudi Arabia has disconnected all the US equipment from the Prince Sultan air base east of Ridayh boxed it up and dumped in the desert.

They believe that the U.S. can monitor their army and Air Force movements from a 'back door' in the control equipment.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Amazing. Chirac thinks he stands for something. Perhaps without the hammer and sickle, he thinks that he can revive the French history which the rest of the world laughed their ass off at, and the the French call "their tradition". We saved their ass in return for being our "friends" over the last 100 years. Maybe next time, we should give the Germans some aircraft carriers and let them think about what their pissant nation would look like in the future.

P.S. They probably have their entire nuclear program invested in 90 mm mortar shells and surrounding Paris. Thinking that is "M.A.D.". Stupid frogs.

[weikel]

They were correct about Mubarrik and the King of Jordan not coming to that Israel bashing summit.

[M. Thatcher]

Ah. Yes, they are, very occasionally correct. But it is also true that they roam consistently in the geopolitical version of Art Bell land.

[M. Thatcher]

Ah. Yes, they are, very occasionally correct. But it is also true that they roam consistently in the geopolitical version of Art Bell land.

[dalebert]

I think we still have people operating that equipment.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

you say this as if there is something wrong with Art Bell. Art Rocks!!! lol

[M. Thatcher]

Hoooo-kay.

[ninenot]

Yes, but the quote has a certain awkward beauty--a listing fogginess--an enigmatic poetry--it's MODERN ART!!!!

[ninenot]

DEBKA is an Israeli web site with contacts in the Mossad (the Israeli Inteligence service

In that case, Israel may need some SERIOUS help. DEBKA also told us last summer that there was a 10 million man/2 million camel caravan marching from Iraq to Israel.

Apparently this massive invasion force was not only invisible to US telemetry, but also got lost.

[jimtorr]

I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien [sic] to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate. -- Professor Harold Laski

It must be modern art. I haven't a clue what he tried to say.

[jimtorr]

DEBKA also told us last summer that there was a 10 million man/2 million camel caravan marching from Iraq to Israel.

Who could forget thier report of a million Chinese soldiers in The Sudan? Or was that Somalia (as if it makes a difference) ?

[teeman8r]

hey, the abdula station on my dish went out? anyone else having trouble getting as the saudi arabia turns?

[Fabozz]

"Can someone explain to me what the importance of Debka is?"

Debka's sources are generally mid-level brass in the IDF, Shin Bet and Mossad—the officers who are out there fighting real battles, as opposed to the top brass who just fight political wars back at the Kirya. As such, Debka stories fall into four categories:

1. Information the top brass want disseminated, but can't say publicly themselves even on "deep background."
2. Disinformation.
3. Unauthorized leaks.
4. Wishful thinking.

Simply damning every Debka story as obviously false, as so many people here find pleasure in doing, is overly simplistic. Taking everything Debka says as gospel is equally blind. The key thing to remember is that every Debka story is out there for a reason; even the ones that are made up out of whole cloth are made up with a purpose.

In this case, I suspect the story is an exaggerated leak—the Saudis are probably replacing some Prince Sultan communications equipment out of security concerns. As for the embargo bit, that simply ain't gonna happen—both Saudi and Venezuela need to sell that oil more than we need to buy it. But I'm perfectly ready to believe that the Saudis are telling the Palestinians "if you set off any more bombs, and Israel retaliates, then we're definitely going to embargo the West. Go for it!" Keeping the Palestinians primed to explode is the Saudi national pastime.

[McGavin999]

Ah, but the Saudis don't understand that the equipment does not have to be connected to monitor them. Even if they broke it into a million pieces, the parts that do the monitoring are so minute that they will likely survive. ;o)

[Dog Gone]

What was the purpose of stating that the Chinese were sending their regular army to fight along side the Taliban?

Or the purpose of stating that Iraq had invaded Jordan last year?

Or that there had been a palace coup in Riyadh and the Royal Family had fled to Geneva?

[Jeff Chandler]

DEBKA is a random story generator

LOL!

[codebreaker]

Good Point. I would assign some of those terminator drones right now to the Saudis

[codebreaker]

Well stated, that is what they probably intoned to Powell.

[crystalk]

This is just a Hebrew translation problem. What this says is, that Saudi Arabia and Venezuela will HOLD OFF ON, NOT JOIN IN, any OPEC or other Arab oil embargo that might be started in that period...

As long as there is no new escalation of Israel's anti-PA activities or any renewed entry into PA areas...

I take it the period in question is from now to May 15, give or take.

What is far more important is what it says about Abdullah II. It says that he has had virtually everything including the crown jewels sent to Europe for safekeeping. Like Kuwait's emir during Desert Storm, he apparently plans to sit out this in a resort like Sharm-el-Sheikh while all hell breaks loose on his subjects and kingdom.