BERLIN (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a
nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero
reports 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 in aircraft laid on by the oil-rich
kingdom.
Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of them took the opportunity to
"disappear" from their hotel rooms, sometimes for up to three weeks, it 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 thanks to the work of
the now-disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Cicero, which will appear on newstands on Thursday, 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 programme".
The magazine also said satellite images prove that Saudi Arabia has set
up 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.
Research
Saudi CSS-2 missiles now operational," Flight International, 6-12 June 90, pp. 12-13.
The CSS-2 was designed for a nuclear warhead and, therefore, has low accuracy
In 1998 the Los Angeles Times reported that Saudi Arabia had purchased
between 20 and 25 CSS-2 missiles, of which China is thought to have produced no more than
100. Two days later The Washington Times claimed, "The most recent shipment of about
25 CSS-2s arrived last month, complementing the first shipment of about 25 sent from China
last fall." (Bill Gertz, "State, Pentagon worry about Saudi missiles," The
Washington Times, 12 May 88)
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