Saudis Prepare For "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit

Empire Burlesque ^ | March 23, 2008 | Chris Floyd

[Fennie]

Last Friday, Dick Cheney was in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings with the Saudi king and his ministers. On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council -- the elite group that implements the decisions of the autocratic inner circle -- is preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors," one of the kingdom's leading newspapers, Okaz, reports. The German-based dpa news service relayed the paper's story.

Simple prudence -- or ominous timing? We noted here last week that an American attack on Iran was far more likely -- and more imminent -- than most people suspect. We pointed to the mountain of evidence for this case gathered by scholar William R. Polk, one of the top aides to John Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and to other indicators of impending war. The story by Okaz -- which would not have appeared in the tightly controlled dictatorship without approval from the top -- is yet another, very weighty piece of evidence laid in the scales toward a new, horrendous conflict...

[Russ]

I have my tinfoil hat on. You may proceed...

[2ndDivisionVet]

I only wish....

[NormsRevenge]

Consider it a courtesy call.

[SnarlinCubBear]

large amounts of popcorn required....Bush, going out with a bang?

[SatinDoll]

Man, the ayatollahs must all be wearing Depend diapers, just in anticipation.

[badpacifist]

Hold on while I check my list of you average paranoid bloggers........ding ding ding we have a winner.

[roughman]

The idiot that wrote this tripe has been eating to many magic mushrooms.

[Fox_Mulder77]

When Kuwait’s entire parliament resigned after the Cheney visit, I thought an attack on Iran was immanent.

[pt17]

Yawn.

[uscabjd]

Did they?

[Mad Dawgg]

I wonder if Iran will heed that old Addage about not showing up at a Nuclear Weapons fight with just Oil and Sand?

[ozzymandus]

Typical leftie crap from a typical leftie site. “BushHitler’s Gonna Start Another War!”

[Rushmore Rocks]

FYI

[bert]

....Saudi Shura Council — the elite group....

Think Board of Directors.

[Steve Schulin]

Every day, I download the hundreds of front pages of newspapers posted at newseum.com, and run a search for items that mention the word "nuclear". The fuses-to-Taiwan story was front page news in dozens of papers around the world. I haven't noticed any alarm about the prospect of an attack on Iran since the NIE came out. Wouldn't Condi Rice surely be making headlines about Iran, instead of about her take on slavery as the USA's birth defect, if an attack on Iran was in the works?

The nuclear headlines, BTW, get featured on the main page at nuclear.com.

[Fox_Mulder77]

Yeah!!!
And the Kuwaiti King dissolved the entire parliament afterwards!!!!
So they have no parliament now!!!!

The only reason why that would happen is if the Kuwaiti King agreed to support an attack on Iran!!

[mimaw]

President Bush has said Iran will not have nuclear weapons under his watch.

[rfp1234]

The Saudis would get far more toxic chemical exposure if their refineries were terrorist-bombed, than by fallout that might drift across the Gulf.