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| Mid-East crisis - Saudis deploy Ballistic Missiles |
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| 04/07/02 at 14:10:40 |
| Saudis Prepare To Deploy Intermediate-range Missiles WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia has prepared for the deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in its southern desert. A Washington-based defense group reports that Saudi Arabia has built facilities for intermediate-range missiles in a newly-constructed complex north of the desert oasis of Al Sulayyil. The complex is said to contain two missile launch areas six kilometers apart as well as a huge support system. Global Security, the defense group, released photographs taken three weeks ago from the Ikonos satellite of what were identified as two missile bases and a complex of 33 buildings, eight of them capable of storing Chinese CSS-2 missiles. The photographs, also published in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, identified the missiles as the CSS-2, reported to have a range of between 2,500 and 3,500 kilometers. The missile, 24 meters long, is capable of carrying a nonconventional warhead. The organization, which analyzed the satellite photographs said the missile launch complex located 27 kilometers north of Al Sulayyil consists of a site support area and two launch areas. Global Security said the support area was "probably used in the construction and ongoing maintenance of both launch sites." http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2...il/04_04_2.html ------------------------------------------------- As good as it seems I wouldn't look too much into this development. These have always been stationed in the south and have only become an issue now because the Israelis have to show they are a 'poor, oppressed, democractic, peace loving people', still surrounded by hostile natives bent on their destruction in order to deflect attention from their own barbarism. It also could be a precursor for the Israelis to launch pre-emptive strikes on Saudi in the event of the conflict spreading. The Israelis prepare in advance of every eventuality and this seems to be just one, unlike impotent arab leaders who will only take action once Israeli tanks start laying seige to their capital cities. |
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