Saudis Reject Call for Inspections (nuclear weapons inspections)

[Shallah Kali]

I know this is a few days old so I apologize if I am reposting.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050614/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_nuclear_agency_17

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.

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While the Saudi government insists it has no interest in having nuclear arms, in the past two decades it has been linked to prewar Iraq's nuclear program and to the Pakistani nuclear black marketeer A.Q. Khan. It also has expressed interest in Pakistani missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and Saudi officials reportedly discussed pursuing the nuclear option as a deterrent in the volatile Middle East.

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But the EU briefing memo — made available to AP by a diplomat accredited to the agency who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to release it — reported Saudi unwillingness to bow to the Western pressure.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Are we going to war against them as well now, WMDs ???

OOOPPPSSS friends to * so probably not.

:kick:

[MichiganVote]

2. Oh alright, we'll invade them too. WTH its only lives and money...

[BayouBengal07]

3. The burden of proof

is on them. If they are not fully transparent and compliant about their nuclear assests, then the United States and our allies will lead a coallition to disarm them.