Saudi Arabia's Secret Missile City in the Middle of the Desert

http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Mar-29-02.htm#Riyadh ^ | This piece ran in Yediot Aharonot on March 27, 2002 | Ronen Bergman.Senior Investigative Journalist, Yediot Aharonot

[HardStarboard]

I have a friend who is a retired Boeing test pilot. He spent a goodly amount of time teaching several Saudi Princes to fly their new personal 737's.

His stories were a hoot - the one clearest in my mind is the Prince that couldn't help slaming on the parking brakes when the plane was still at 3 or 4 knots. He flat-spotted several sets of perfectly good tires - and always wanted Boeing to pay for the replacements as a part of training costs.

Thes guys are very dangerous....mostly to themselves!

[blam]

"We had all the reasons to assume that they were grateful that we saved them in the Gulf War, and we were wrong."

[dighton]

Jet gets stuck in monsoon drain in Malaysia

[MissAmericanPie]

Well isn't this good news, it may explain why Bush aided and abetted the Saudi royals flight from the fruits of destruction they sowed on 9-11 and continue to finance.

It did not go without comment on the news that the royals plane was the only domestic flight allowed in the sky by Bush on 9-11 and Bush would not let the FBI question them before they departed.

Now the Saudi's tell Bush to stuff it the US cannot attack Iraq, and cannot use the multi-million dollar base we built there to attack from. Then the Saudi prince remember's a "peace plan" that just happened to be laying around in his desk drawer and Bush fawns over it.

No wonder Israel went ahead and went into defense/attack mode. That Sharon is pretty smart.

[Adrastus]

After 15 years in Saudi Arabia as a contractor training their air force, I'm inclined to agree with you. RSAF has been referred to (not without justification) as the most exclusive flying club in the world.

The likelihood of their gaining the expertise to operate such a complex in that short a period of time is, to put it charitabley, remote.BTW, I've been in KKMC on more than a few occasions and saw nothing like the article discribs. I am encouraged to see that they (supposedly) have Tornadoes guarding the place. Probably one of the few aircraft in the world the requires 3 hours of maintainence for every hour of operation.

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[sheik yerbouty]

All the jihadi roads lead to Saudi. They must be neutralized.

[American in Israel]

The East Wind's modified range/payload (5) of 2,500 km/2,000 kg (conventional load) brings many countries within striking range, including Israel, though the missiles are said to be targeted on Tehran and other Iranian population centers, rather than Israel...The missiles are far too inaccurate to be used against any point target with either HE or chemical warheads.

I think that someone is selling nukes on the side. Too many Islamic nations are spending too much money to buy missiles that are good for nothing else. Somehow I suspect that Israel is the target, not other Moslems. I guess the Middle East is going nuclear, Israel knows these missiles are too inaccurate to load conventional warheads on, When these get launched, Israel has no choice but to erase Mecca, or die.

[happygrl]

I read about this a few years ago in a book entitled "The Gold of Exodus" by Howard Blum, Simon & Schuster. The non-fiction book describes two sleuths who believe that the real Mt. Sinai is on the Arabian Peninsula and set out to find it. While wandering around in the wilderness, they stumbled across these facilities. The story uncovered was that it was a communications network installed by U.S. companies, but upgraded by the Chinese to a missile defense. I couldn't determine the reliability of the story then. Now it seems that the book was accurate.

[Adrastus]

BTW, that was a part of an air defence system called "Peace Sheild." As far as I know about all that came of that site up by Tobuk was the fencing off of a tall jibbel (Jibal Musa, as it is known by).

[monkeyshine]

Well, that's one highrise spared.

[mcollins]

There is some misleading stuff floating around on this thread. Leadhead has the right idea. Sorry, cant say any more.

Michael C.

[happygrl]

Remember that immediately after 9-11 all of the Saudi Royal family fled to Switzerland, a neutral country. They were afraid that, having discovered their role in terrorism. we would retaliate.

[happygrl]

The secret influence at work here is that Crown Prince Abdullah is a personal friend of GB. They have been friends since Yale. GB used to bring Abdullah home for the holidays. Barbara is fond of Abdullah.

[Don Myers]

Ummmm....You mean our eyes-in-the-sky, spy satelites, didn't catch this? Oh well, time to spend a few billion and send up a few more.

[happygrl]

Yup, that's the one. And the book did refer to it as Peace Shield. Interesting read. Also mentioned the efforts by the Saudis to get The Bomb.

[ex-Texan]

Time for Israel to destroy these missles by a preemptive strike .... S.A. is governed by a bunch of raghead Wahabbi fundamentaist wackos bent on the destruction of all 'non believers.' I say F'em ....

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Publius6961]

This certainly nails down the lie that Saudi is a friend and that rogues are the problem.
I hope that lots of missiles are targetted at the proper places as we speak.
If Osirak could be taken out...