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Old 03-29-2006, 11:32 AM   #16 (permalink)
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When did that happen?
Either I've missed it all amidst forum restructuring and debates of the pious or I've been too lazy to go through all the threads.

Anyways, congratulations Shek!
Thanks.

I had mentioned it in passing and in an oblique manner at that many weeks ago.
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Old 03-29-2006, 11:59 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Samudra,

You've missed it. Shek is a now a Major.

I really don't think the KSA will get their hands on a nuke. They're damned lazy people. When I was there. I saw M9s rusting in the desert. Their entire AF is being maintained by BAe. Their oil is being pumped by American companies.

Even their entire Chinese made DF-2 battery is now being maintained by 50 Chinese rocket engineers.
Colonel,

Not too much effort in writing out a cheque for both the bomb and the subsequent maintenance.

As the Persian Shia bomb project and the voluntarily aborted Arab Sunni (Libya) project has shown, Pakistan has been more than happy to cash the cheque. So to plagiarise Ray, why not a Arab Sunni "Wahhabi" bomb ?

9/11 has off course shown that the Saudi's will not need a cheque to do a low tech kamikaze delivery system . Then off course the Pakistani's also have the human delivery capability.
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:02 PM   #18 (permalink)
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why not a Arab Sunni "Wahhabi" bomb ?
The only way this would work is that this would be a Pak battery, maintained by Pak engineers, manned by Pak rocketeers but being paid by Saudi money and a Saudi flag on those missiles.
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:23 PM   #19 (permalink)
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The only way this would work is that this would be a Pak battery, maintained by Pak engineers, manned by Pak rocketeers but being paid by Saudi money and a Saudi flag on those missiles.
Why not? (Not to be offensive but) Pakistan can be bought. Saudi Arabia has the money.
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:24 PM   #20 (permalink)
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The only way this would work is that this would be a Pak battery, maintained by Pak engineers, manned by Pak rocketeers but being paid by Saudi money and a Saudi flag on those missiles.
If that ever happens, Israel would go after Saudi Arabia and Pakistan alone with or without India's help. I would strongly consider that India go with Israel and take them out.
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:25 PM   #21 (permalink)
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If that ever happens, Israel would go after Saudi Arabia and Pakistan alone with or without India's help. I would strongly consider that India go with Israel and take them out.
You might or might not know, this was to happen but Indira Gandhi chickened out back more than 2 decades ago.
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It's just a myth. The US is all over Saudi Arabia. Something like this can't happen under their noses.
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:37 PM   #23 (permalink)
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The only way this would work is that this would be a Pak battery, maintained by Pak engineers, manned by Pak rocketeers but being paid by Saudi money and a Saudi flag on those missiles.
Colonel,

That would be absolutely no problem.

Those that matter in Pakistan are conditioned to the requirements of a “rentier state”.

As for the hoi polloi, they are conditioned to believe that the Saudi King is the “Khadim Al-Harmain Al-Sharifian”. Apostate Shia's do not matter .

Bottomline , the Pakistani’s will paint the Saudi flag on those rockets even if from a country that considers the unmentionable as a gastronomic delight .
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My promotion date isn't until Saturday.
Can you feel your brain cells starting to atrophy?
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:48 PM   #25 (permalink)
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It's just a myth. The US is all over Saudi Arabia. Something like this can't happen under their noses.
LOL....i have about 0% confidence in the accuracy of that statment.

US admins have been lying and covering up for the Saidi royals for decades.
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Old 03-29-2006, 13:09 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Saudi nukes can only happen with US approval.

We know of the DF-2 battery for decades. Something similar, even with Pak help cannot be that clandestine, namely for the reasons that the Saudis sucks when it comes to just about anything and Israel has a better intel than the Saudis could handle.
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LOL....i have about 0% confidence in the accuracy of that statment.

US admins have been lying and covering up for the Saidi royals for decades.
Major,

I second that………..FWIW
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And now I can see a whole slosh against officers coming.
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Old 03-29-2006, 13:16 PM   #29 (permalink)
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And now I can see a whole slosh against officers coming.
That entirely eluded me.
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