Bad news - really, really bad news.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/031022-pakistan_saudi-arabia.htm

Coming soon to a navy base / port facility near you!

B-b-b-b-but Dubya says they're our friends?

I thought the Saudis liked us?:(

There was a post from Proud Syrian here - but it disappeared while I was responding to it - what gives?

The gist of his post was that the U.S. was hypocritical to complain about an Islamic nation having nukes when we have them and have used them. True enough.

My response:

I don't like the fact that we have them either, Proud Syrian. The blood of Nagasaki and Hiroshima's civilians are forever on our hands (and Dresden and Hamburg and Baghdad and Kabul... but I digress) and the fact that we gave the technology to Israel is a heinous crime, IMO. But I hope you would agree that having nukes in countries as precarious as Pakistan and Saudi is a dangerous thing. Imagine this scenario - Saudi gets the bomb, the wobbly government falls and next thing you know Tel Aviv gets vaporized. Intelligence reveals a Saudi source for the weapon. Israel retaliates with a nuke on Mecca, and war escalates until no one is left standing between Haifa and Islamabad.

I would like to see a general nuclear disarmament for everybody, and security guarantees for nuclear-free nations so they don't feel they need to have nukes.

Originally posted by te jen
I would like to see a general nuclear disarmament for everybody, and security guarantees for nuclear-free nations so they don't feel they need to have nukes.

I guess my question would be, in that senario, who is going to guarantee the security? What about when two countries that have these agreements start fighting?

Or, if everybody disarms, what is stopping someone from rearming?

I agree, my country policy was always for MIDDLE EAST FREE FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS, when we try to put this into the UN security council to vote on it, your JEWISH-CONTROLED governmnet threatened to VETO it ( as they do all the time when it comes to Israel ).

So, in one hand, America want to disarm all muslim countries but when these same muslim countires call for the whole middle east to be free from the nukes ( INCLUDING ISRAEL ), America with all its hypocrisy block these moves and resolutions.

I am with the muslim world having the nukes, till when we will allow America and its mad dog (Israel ) to attack us ?

Afghanistan fell and Iraq, who is next ???

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

this is not news as I have said in this thread (http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29674). This is not very shocking news I should say *yawn*

looks like Saudi will not be the only country with nukes.



http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_429647,0008.htm
Top Indian Nuclear expert took Iran assignment
Jay Raina
New Delhi, October 23

A sensitive government investigation has revealed that Dr YSR Prasad, a former chairman and managing director of the Nuclear Corporation of India, took up an assignment in Iran after he retired in July 2000. He is believed to have helped Iran build technical and physical infrastructure for its nuclear power plants.

The revelations come at a time when Iran’s nuclear programme is under the scrutiny of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the Indian government is contemplating banning its nuclear scientists from taking up jobs abroad...

Welcome to nuclear middle east.


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'India helping Libya's Missile development'
By: PTI
April 12, 2003
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Washington: Indian entities are allegedly among those from which Libya has obtained assistance for its ballistic missile programme, a CIA report has said.
Serbia, Iran, North Korea and China are the other entities according to its semiannual report to Congress on the Acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Weapons, which covers the first half of 2002.






http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2003/april/49806.htm



Interesting reports.
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Welcome back Goofy :)
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