Saudi Arabia most likely would develop nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them, according to a report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
High-level American diplomats in Riyadh with excellent access to Saudi decision-makers said an Iranian nuclear weapon frightens the Saudis “to their core” and would compel the Saudis to seek nuclear weapons, the report said. [...]

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The sources say the letter describes Riyadh’s evaluation of the Middle East situation. But Saud Al-Faisal evidently passed the most vital message by word of mouth. In Saudi Arabia, they are sure that Iran’s policy will shatter the region in future and the helping hand of Moscow is needed to prevent it.
Riyadh elaborated a plan [...]

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What would Saudi Arabia do if Iran acquired nuclear weapons? Many analysts in Washington and the Middle East assume that in the event of a nuclear breakout by Iran, Saudi Arabia would feel compelled to build or acquire its own nuclear arsenal. Given Saudi Arabia’s vast wealth and strategic weakness, such a decision might seem [...]

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On the sixth day of the Palestinian surge out of Gaza into northern Sinai, Egyptian intelligence is discovering that, far from being chaotic, it was minutely planned by the fundamentalist Hamas group which rules the Gaza Strip.
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, each of the estimated half a million Gazans in flight, one-third of the total [...]

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The Saudi-Gulf bloc collapsed about six weeks ago when Qatar, in an unprecedented move and without consulting the other Gulf states, invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Doha. (The Saudi magazine Al-Majalla called this collapse “the end of the American game.” [3] ) The Gulf [...]

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A Saudi Arabian newspaper said Sunday that suspected Al Qaeda terrorists were allegedly able to smuggle eight Chinese-made missiles into the kingdom before they were arrested as part of a terror sweep.
The daily Okaz, which is deemed close to the government, quoting unnamed officials as saying militants wanted to use the missiles to allegedly target [...]

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Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz held talks here Friday with President Vladimir Putin expected to pave the way for the first purchase of Russian weapons by the kingdom, a close US ally.
Greeting the crown prince at the Kremlin, Putin said discussions would address a range of an international issues, while the prince described [...]

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Egyptian and Saudi nuclear ambitions, on top of Iran’s atomic drive, will lead to an “apocalyptic scenario”, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said in comments published on Friday.
“If Egypt and Saudi Arabia begin nuclear programmes, this can bring an apocalyptic scenario upon us,” Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the English-language Jerusalem Post newspaper.
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For years, Israel was the only country in the entire Middle East with a nuclear program. That’s about to change. The list of Arab states that are actively pursuing nuclear power, or seriously considering doing so, is a long one: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen and the seven [...]

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A former U.S. ambassador explains how both countries worked to rebuild their long-standing friendship in the wake of 9-11.
Why things got better
The U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia has improved in many ways during the past three years, and not just on the security front. It is a significant but not well-known success story in the [...]

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Who will take the lead to confront Saudi discrimination, arrogance, and repression?
Saudi Arabian Airlines (known as Saudia) declares on its English-language website that the kingdom bans “Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings, items with religious symbols such as the Star of David.” Until the Saudi government changes this detestable policy, its airline should be disallowed from flying [...]

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By favoring merchants over clerics, Abdullah is making crucial reforms.
Brussels; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - When Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud was crown prince of Saudi Arabia, one of his most infamous decisions was banning the use of camera phones in 2004 – a demand from the country’s Wahhabi clergy who claimed the devices [...]

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Why do we continue to tolerate demands for special treatment and exclusive rights on the part of Muslim groups, while they and their main benefactors, the Saudis, maintain a zero tolerance attitude toward the West? FSM Contributing Editor Doug Farah reminds us of this hypocrisy.
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Saudi Arabia? Isn’t that the country:

from which came 15 of the 19 men responsible for 9/11?
that opposed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and whose king, in March 2007, called the invasion an “illegal occupation”?
that told the United States to remove its troops and find some other country for U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) forward [...]

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Back in 2002, a Rand Corporation analyst named Laurent Murawiec gave a briefing to the Pentagon’s advisory Defense Policy Board, in which he described Saudi Arabia as the “kernel of evil… active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader.” Every word of that [...]

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Even on Iran, whose growing influence in the region is deeply threatening to the Saudis, Riyadh differs sharply from those hawks in the Bush Administration who advocate isolation of Iran and confrontation to resolve the nuclear issue. Riyadh made a show of hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad for talks late last year at a time [...]

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Israel has come out in support of a multi-billion dollar U.S. arms deal to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. I can’t remember the last time Israel supported a deal like this. Probably because it never has. So what exactly is going on this time?
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Saudi Arabia is clandestinely developing nuclear weapons, according to a report appearing Wednesday on a Saudi Arabic-language news website.
Pakistani nuclear scientists who secretly entered Saudi Arabia during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in 2003 have been the driving force behind the covert nuclear program, reported the Sawt Al-Salam website. Iraqi nuclear scientists were also [...]

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WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) — At the time of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February visit to Riyadh, some Russian commentators expressed the view that improved Saudi-Russian ties were occurring at the expense of Saudi relations with America and the West.
“Saudi Arabia is turning away from the West towards Russia,” Moscow’s NTV Mir declared on [...]

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Everywhere you look, it seems, the Middle East is in flames. Yet, almost unnoticed by outside observers, the most conservative country in the region has embarked on a historic journey of reform.
Last week, a senior official in one of the world’s wealthiest states suggested that one third of all government jobs should go to women.
Switzerland? [...]

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WASHINGTON [MENL] — Saudi Arabia has been funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to establish Wahabi mosques and schools in North Africa.
Officials said Saudi princes and those close to the ruling family have been pouring money into the construction of mosques, schools and charities in such countries as Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. They said the [...]

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