**Saudia Arabia working on secret nuclear program with Pakistan help - report **
March 28, 2006
BERLIN (AFX) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reported in its latest edition, citing Western security sources.
It says that during the Haj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia.
Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of them slipped off from pilgrimages, sometimes for up to three weeks, the report quoted German security expert Udo Ulfkotte as saying.
According to Western security services, the magazine added, Saudi scientists have been working since the mid-1990s in Pakistan, a nuclear power since 1998.
Cicero, which will appear on newstands tomorrow, also quoted a US military analyst, John Pike, as saying that Saudi bar codes can be found on half of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons ‘because it is Saudi Arabia which ultimately co-financed the Pakistani atomic nuclear program.’
The magazine also said satellite images indicate that Saudi Arabia has set up a program in Al-Sulaiyil, south of Riyadh, a secret underground city and dozens of underground silos for missiles.
According to some Western security services, long-range Ghauri-type missiles of Pakistani-origin are housed inside the silos.
This news is from last year.
Is it true? Is there any other information of such?
I remember some retired Pakistan general (I think Aslam Baig) saying that the Israelis were planning to attack Pakistani nuclear installations in the mid-1990s but Pakistan threaten Hindustan, that no matter what, Hindustan will be held responsible for it. And, as a result, Israelis stopped in their tracks.
According to this story, it was also around the mid-1990s when Pakistan and Saudi Arabia started co-operting in this field. Could this co-operation be as a result of Israeli actions?
