Saudis ‘to get nuclear weapons’ | The Sunday Times

"bootlegga" said
I doubt Israel will let that happen anymore than they will let Iran get it. Many in Israel feel their survival depends on their nuclear monopoly.

"ShepherdsDog" said
great....so the next things the Saudi sandbandits fly into New York will take out the city rather than a couple of skyscrapers.

"martin14" said
No surprise.

The deal with Iran triggers a nuke race across the ME.


Still think it was a good idea ?

"N_Fiddledog" said
If we're trying to guess which brand of Middle Eastern numbskullery is most likely to initiate an apocalypse wouldn't the Iranians be the better bet over the Arabs?

They have that ready mix insanity of the 12th Imam, Mahdi hiding in the well waiting for the the end of the world, and they've twisted their brains into believing the worse the horror is the more likely they can coax him out.

Somehow they've convinced themselves that the worse things get the better that would be for them.

These 12th Imam lunatic Mullahs in charge of Iran actually believe this.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/robert ... -can-come/

I mean if we're trying to guess who is most likely to start the nuclear conflagration, my money's on the Iranians.

The Arabs could be in it though. Those Wahabbis are no brain trust of sanity either.

I guess we could cross our fingers and hope for the Arabs and the Mullahs to get into it with each other, and for us to stay out of it as they turn sand to glass.

"Jabberwalker" said

It was a bunch of Arabs who crashed airliners full of people into buildings full of people. I've never heard of a Persian that loony.

The U.S. indictment of bin Laden filed in 1998 stated that al-Qaeda "forged alliances . . . with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezbollah for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies." On May 31, 2001, Steven Emerson and Daniel Pipes wrote in The Wall Street Journal that "Officials of the Iranian government helped arrange advanced weapons and explosives training for Al-Qaeda personnel in Lebanon where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings."

The 9/11 Commission Report stated that 8 to 10 of the hijackers on 9/11 passed through Iran and their travel was facilitated by Iranian border guards. The report also noted that "a senior operative of Hezbollah" (Imad Mughniyah) was on the flights that convoyed the future hijackers from Saudi Arabia to Tehran, along with associates that Kenneth Timmerman describes as "Iranian agents". The extent of Iranian involvement has been questioned due to major differences between the religious ideologies of Iran and al Qaeda; according to the 9/11 Commission report, Mughniyah's presence on flights carrying the hijackers to Iran may have been a "remarkable coincidence." After the commission called for "further investigation" into a possible Iranian role in the attacks, President George W. Bush demanded that Iran sever its ties with al-Qaeda, while saying that in his view, "There was no direct connection between Iran and the attacks of September 11."