Report: Saudi's Will Now Pose A Nuclear Threat

Report: Saudis Will Now Pose a Nuclear Threat

By David Bedein, Middle East Correspondent

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Jerusalem — Saudi Arabia has taken a step towards a nuclear threat against Jerusalem.

Saudi Arabia, the only Arab nation contiguous to Israel which remains in a
total state of war with the Jewish state since 1948, has never agreed
to an armistice with Israel, like Syria and Lebanon, nor a peace treaty
with Israel, like Egypt or Jordan.

This past week, The Tel Aviv based Institute of National Security Studies issued a report which
documents that Riyad has been working to prepare a nuclear
infrastructure.

The report, entitled "The Saudi Nuclear Option, authored by a senior intelligence analyst, Yoel Guzansky, asserts that
Pakistan will be the most likely developer of a Saudi nuclear option

The
report said that a key Saudi option involved the Saudi alliance with
Pakistan, which has received billions of dollars from the Gulf
Cooperation Council kingdom for strategic programs. In the words of the
report...”Should Saudi Arabia find itself in a sensitive security
situation, it may well be that it would seek to capitalize on its
investment

in the Pakistani program."

The report went in to say that “Despite Saudi Arabia’s relative transparency and
cooperation with the international community on nuclear issues, there
are more than a few doubts as to its credibility, given that in the
past it had very close relations with Pakistan," the report said. "More
than once the claim has been madethat Saudi Arabia was in fact behind
the financing of Pakistan's nuclear and missile programs. After the
Islamic revolution and throughout the 1980s Pakistan stationed military
forces in Saudi Arabia and the two nations cooperated in assisting the
Afghani mujahadeen."

The report also said Pakistan wields the manpower and technology for the nuclear weapons program for Saudi Arabia.

In the 1980s, Saudi Arabia procured the Chinese-origin CSS-2
surface-to-surface missiles from Pakistan. The CSS-2, although not
regarded as accurate, was designed to contain a nuclear warhead.

"Various developments therefore may lead Saudi Arabia to accelerate its
timetable, and along with or instead of developing independent nuclear
infrastructures, it is not inconceivable that it would prefer buying
turnkey components, enter into a military treaty with Pakistan, and in
certain scenarios, even deploy Pakistani nuclear forces on Saudi soil
because of the urgency and its lack of appropriate infrastructures,"
the report said.

David Bedein can be reached at bedein@thebulletin.us.

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Comment by Sweettina2 on May 3, 2010 at 3:44pm: Israel (zionists, not all Jews), have made enemies since the beginning of time, its gonna be payday at some point. Remember Biden admitting last month that he was a zionist? Their agenda has called for destruction, and they will reap destruction. The word says that not one stone will be left upon another.