AP: Saudis Reject Call for Inspections (by IAEA)

[maddezmom]

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago



VIENNA, Austria - Saudi Arabia is defying the United States, the European Union and Australia by resisting U.N. efforts to verify that it has no nuclear assets worth inspecting, according to a confidential EU document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

There is little concern the Saudis are trying to make nuclear arms, but Riyadh's resistance to inspections adds another worry for a top-level meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency this week that is focusing on North Korea and Iran.

Those two countries are the world's major concerns about the spread of atomic weapons. On Tuesday, the IAEA chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, urged North Korea to back away from its nuclear program and asked Iran to cooperate better with the U.N. investigation of its nuclear activities.

The Saudis insist they have no plans to develop nuclear arms — and no facilities or nuclear stocks that warrant inspection. But they have been under pressure to allow a U.N. inspection before a deal comes into force that would effectively curtail the IAEA's monitoring there.

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more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050614/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_nuclear_agency;_

[Massachusetts]

1. Saudis Reject Call for Inspections

WHY?

[acmejack]

2. How much do you think AQ Khan wanted for working model?

They probably have them already. If not from AQ, then from one of the hand holders.

[phantom power]

3. Well, then it's our moral duty to invade them, right?

That's why we "had" to invade Iraq.

Right?

[jpak]

4. Oil rich ME country - check

Dictatorship - check

Beheads their own people - check

Supports homocide (sic) bomber terra-ists - check

Ties to Al Qaeda - check

Ties to Bin Laden -check

Ties to 9/11 -check

Has ballistic missiles - check

Blocks UN nuclear inspectors - check



We begin bombing in five minutes....

[Brundle_Fly]

5. I think we'll let israel do the dirty work here....

and sort out the facts later.

[Coventina]

6. excellent analysis!

I'm holding my breath.....

[Roland99]

7. Ah...but the all-important missing factors are:

Invaded other countries recently - Nope
Possessed and used WMDs while being an ally of the U.S. - Nope.


Just missing those last little key ingredients.


Remember, Iraq was all about the WMDs. :sarcasm:

[lumpy]

13. Plus friends of George W . Bush

Add that to the list

[leesa]

8. I think far more people are worried about the US's nukes

"Those two countries are the world's major concerns about the spread of atomic weapons."

[underpants]

9. Iraq=tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia = strategic pivot, Egypt = the prize

The Men From JINSA and CSP
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest

For example, the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board--chaired by JINSA/CSP adviser and former Reagan Administration Defense Department official Richard Perle, and stacked with advisers from both groups--recently made news by listening to a briefing that cast Saudi Arabia as an enemy to be brought to heel through a number of potential mechanisms, many of which mirror JINSA's recommendations, and which reflect the JINSA/CSP crowd's preoccupation with Egypt. (The final slide of the Defense Policy Board presentation proposed that "Grand Strategy for the Middle East" should concentrate on "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot Egypt as the prize.") Ledeen has been leading the charge for regime change in Iran, while old comrades like Andrew Marshall and Harold Rhode in the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment actively tinker with ways to re-engineer both the Iranian and Saudi governments. JINSA is also cheering the US military on as it tries to secure basing rights in the strategic Red Sea country of Eritrea, happily failing to mention that the once-promising secular regime of President Isaiais Afewerki continues to slide into the kind of repressive authoritarianism practiced by the "axis of evil" and its adjuncts.

[NYC Liberal]

10. INVASIONS in the last 4 years:

Iraq: 0 nations invaded, 0 countries attacked, 0 governments toppled
Iran: 0 nations invaded, 0 countries attacked, 0 governments toppled
Afghanistan: 0 nations invaded, 0 countries attacked, 0 governments toppled
Saudi Arabia: 0 nations invaded, 0 countries attacked, 0 governments toppled
North Koria: 0 nations invaded, 0 countries attacked, 0 governments toppled

United States: 2 nations attacked and invaded, 2 governments toppled

Who is the aggressor here??

[cliss]

11. That's the most amazing statement I've read all day....

"There is little concern the Saudis are trying to make nuclear arms..."

The Saudis.....friends? Or enemies? 15 out of the 18 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Al Qaida has a large contingent there.

I've always said that our #1 enemy is:

1) Pakistan

2) Saudi Arabia

[liberalcenter]

12. Isn't this reason to go to war

under the Bush doctrine?

Is was more than enough for Iraq? Oh wait, The saudis and the Bush families bed fellows.

[lumpy]

14. "Saudis and the Bush families ar bed fellows"

Yes, always bear that in mind.

[splat@14]

15. We're already in the area, lets invade. The 52nd and 53rd state!