Nuclear Red Alert.
Saudi Fight-Bombers Equipped with Nuclear Warheads
Global
Research, March 02, 2016
Il Manifesto and Voltairenet.org 28 February 2016
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Theme: Militarization and WMD
In-depth
Report: Nuclear War
Warning: Saudi Arabia, although a signatory to the Nuclear Weapons Non-
Proliferation Treaty has just, in violation of its pledge, acquired atomic
bombs from Pakistan.
“We
have nuclear bombs”: this is what was said on February 19 on Russia
Today by the Saudi political analyst, Daham al-Anzi, de facto
spokesman for Riyadh.
He
repeated it on another Arab channel. Saudi Arabia had already declared [1] its intention to acquire
nuclear weapons from Pakistan (not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation
Treaty), of whom it finances 60% of the military nuclear program. Now, through
al-Anzi, the Saudis have indicated that they started buying them two years ago.
Of course, for Riyadh, this is to confront the “Iranian threat” in Yemen, Iraq
and Syria, where “the Russians aid Assad.” That is to say, where Russia
supports the Syrian government to free the country from Daesh (Islamic state)
and other terrorist groups, financed and armed by Saudi Arabia as part of the
US / NATO strategy.
Riyadh
has over 250 fighter-bombers with dual conventional and nuclear capability,
provided by the US and by the European powers. Since 2012, Saudi Arabia is part
of the “Nato Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency,” the NATO agency that
manages European Eurofighter and Tornado fighters, of which Riyadh bought from
Britain twice the number of that of the whole Royal Air Force.
In
the same context, enter the imminent 8 billion EUR maxi contract – thanks to
Minister Roberta Pinotti, efficient sales representative for the supply of
weapons – to supply Kuwait (ally of Saudi Arabia) with 28 Eurofighter fighter
Typhoons, built by a consortium including Finmeccanica with British, German and
Spanish industries. This is the largest order ever obtained by Finmeccanica
whose coffers will absorb half the 8 billion. Guaranteed with 4 billion in
funding by a pool of banks, including Unicredit and Intesa Sanpaolo, and the
group Sace Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
And
thus accelerates the conversion of military Finmeccanica, with outstanding
results for those who enrich themselves with war: in 2015 Finmeccanica share
value grew by 67%. Right in the face of the “Arms Trade Treaty” ratified by
parliament in 2013, which states that “no State Party shall knowingly authorize
the transfer of arms if the weapons could be used for attacks against civilian
targets or subjects, or for other war crimes. ”
Faced with the denunciation
that the weapons provided by Italy are used by Saudi and Kuwaiti air forces for
the massacre of civilians in Yemen, Minister Pinotti replies: “Let us not
transform the states that are our allies in the battle against Daesh into enemies.
This would be a very serious mistake. ”
This
would be especially a “mistake” to allow it to be known who are our “allies”
Saudi and Kuwaiti: absolute monarchies, where power is concentrated in the
hands of the ruler and his family circle, where parties and trade unions are
banned; where immigrant workers (10 million in Saudi Arabia, about half of the
labor force; 2 million to 2.9 million people in Kuwait) live in conditions of
exploitation and slavery, where those who call for the most basic human rights
are hanged or beheaded.
In
these hands, “democratic” Italy places bombers capable of carrying nuclear
bombs, knowing that Saudi Arabia already has them and that they can also be
used by Kuwait.
At
the “International Humanitarian Law Conference,” minister Pinotti, after
stressing the importance of “respecting the norms of international law,”
concluded that “Italy is a immensely credible and respected country.”
Manlio
Dinucci, Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest
books are Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ;Geocommunity Ed. Zanichelli 2013
; Escalation. Anatomia della guerra
infinita, Ed. DeriveApprodi 2005.
Translation
Source
Note
[1] “Iran nuclear talks : Prospect of
deal with Iran pushes Saudi Arabia and Israel into an unlikely alliance”, Kim Sengupta, The
Independent, March 30, 2015.
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original source of this article is Il Manifesto and Voltairenet.org
Copyright
© Manlio
Dinucci, Il Manifesto and Voltairenet.org , 2016
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