Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri The Coordinator 2015 Part 5-11-WMD

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"If Muslims cannot defeat the kafir [unbelievers] in a different way, it is permissible to use weapons of mass destruction," states the fatwa by Saudi jihadi cleric Nasir al-Fahd, who is currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. "Even if it kills all of them and wipes them and their descendants off the face of the Earth." -- fatwa

A "hypothetical operation" in which the Islamic State uses its "billions of dollars" to buy a nuclear device in Pakistan." The weapon could then be transported through Libya and Nigeria"drug shipments from Columbia bound for Europe pass through West Africa, so moving other types of contraband from East to West is just as possible." The device would land on the south shores of South America and make its way to Mexico, from where "it’s just a quick hop through a smuggling tunnel" to the US.

'Pakistan's Atomic Bomb Belongs To The World Of Islam'; Yemen's Houthi Rebels And Their Patrons Dream Of Occupying Mecca And Medina, June 5, 2015.

Biden warns: “Let’s not kid each other. They already have paved a path to a bomb’s worth of material. Iran could get there now if they walked away in two to three months without a deal.” Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs said that Pakistan's nuclear bomb is not of Pakistan alone but belongs to the entire Islamic world. ISIS could exploit the capabilities and knowledge of Latin American smuggling networks to infiltrate the U.S. through Mexico and possibly bring in weapons of mass destruction.

Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa writing 29 August 2014 for foreignpolicy.com ["The Islamic State's Terror Laptop of Doom"] report that the contents of a laptop seized from ISIS "makes clear that its owner is a Tunisian national named Muhammed S. who joined ISIS in Syria and who studied chemistry and physics at two universities in Tunisia's northeast. Even more disturbing is how he planned to use that education: The ISIS laptop contains a 19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals. "The advantage of biological weapons is that they do not cost a lot of money, while the human casualties can be huge," the document states. The document includes instructions for how to test the weaponized disease safely, before it is used in a terrorist attack. "When the microbe is injected in small mice, the symptoms of the disease should start to appear within 24 hours," the document says.The laptop also includes a 26-page fatwa, or Islamic ruling, on the usage of

weapons of mass destruction. "If Muslims cannot defeat the kafir [unbelievers] in a

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different way, it is permissible to use weapons of mass destruction," states the fatwa by Saudi jihadi cleric Nasir al-Fahd, who is currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. "Even if it kills all of them and wipes them and their descendants off the face of the Earth."

ISIS / Caliphate - WMDIt is said that when Abu Bakr al Baghdadi left Camp Bucca, where the worst of the worst were held in Iraq, he threatened his American jailers saying, "I’ll see you in New York." A good story, which may or may not be true. Should the need arise, Islamic State (aka ISIS/ISIL) could buy a nuclear weapon in Pakistan within 12 months, the group's in-house magazine boasted in a May 2015 article attributed to hostage journalist John Cantlie.The article talks about a "hypothetical operation" in which the Islamic State uses its "billions of dollars" to buy a nuclear device in Pakistan "through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region." The weapon could then be transported through Libya and Nigeria. The article suggests that "drug shipments from Columbia bound for Europe pass through West Africa, so moving other types of contraband from East to West is just as possible."The device would land on the south shores of South America and make its way to Mexico, from where "it’s just a quick hop through a smuggling tunnel" to the US. The chilling conclusion is that in the end, "they’re mingling with another 12 million 'illegal' aliens in America with a nuclear bomb in the trunk of their car."The author admits this is a "far-fetched" scenario, but goes on to say it is far more possible now than it was a year ago. Islamic State, he says, "will be looking to do something big, something that would make any past operation look like a squirrel shoot." Something of the scale could be made possible, according to the article, by an unprecedented condensation of various extreme Islamist groups under the terror organization’s wing.The article mentions militant groups such as Boko Haram, which recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State. It says there are many Boko followers across the Middle East given confidence by the territorial gains made by the ISIS terrorists: "Nothing on this scale has happened this big or this quick before. Huge swathes of Pakistan, Nigeria, Libya, Yemen and the Sinai Peninsula are all now united under the black




flag."In June 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly seized control of nuclear material controlled by the Iraqi government at the University of Mosul. On 10 July 2014 the Iraqi government asked for international assistance after Sunni militants from the group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized nuclear material from a university in Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city, which they overran in June. But weapons experts played down any major threat from the seizure. The Iraqi government warned Thursday that the militants had seized up to 40 kilograms of uranium compounds from Mosul University. The speed of the Iraqi military’s retreat from the rebels left many sites unsecured. The ISIL also entered the al-Muthanna project site located 60 miles north of Baghdad near the town of Samarra where the “remnants of the former [Iraqi] chemical weapons program were kept.” During the 1980s, the site produced hundreds of tons of Sarin, VX, and mustard agents. Aerial bombing during Desert Storm destroyed the research and production facilities at al-Muthanna and ended its ability to produce chemical weapons. The exact contents of the two bunkers that the ISIL entered, however, are not generally known. The lack of control of radioactive materials and former chemical weapons agents in Iraq is a concern, but the requisites to make the stolen materials into a weapon of mass destruction were lacking.A Scud missile was photographed 30 June 2013 in the town square of Raqqa, which ISIS had declared the capital of its “caliphate,” and carried ISIS markings and slogans. In order to launch the missile, the terror group would also need maintenance personnel, fuel, a refueling vehicle and skilled operators. Shown on the back of a truck without a launcher, it is likely that the Scud was of Syrian origin. Syria’s government had fired more than 40 Scud-type ballistic missiles at rebel positions in the country’s north in the first two months of 2013, according to intelligence Turkey had gathered from the region.US officials are investigating reports that Islamic State militants used chlorine gas bombs against Iraqi security forces in their fight to grab more territory. According to various accounts in US and Iraqi media, the militants detonated the gas with homemade bombs, unleashing streams of yellow smoke in an assault on Iraqi police in September 2014 near Balad, just north of Baghdad.The CIA noted in 2004 that "While the number of individuals involved in the Iraq WMD programs throughout the past thirty years is in the thousands, there is a fairly small subset who may remain of concern today. Precision is impossible, but it is worth noting that one or two individuals with the right skills could make a significant impact in a WMD effort."UN sanctions and intrusive UNSCOM inspections dampened the Regime’s ability to retain its WMD expertise. During the course of the 1990s, staffs were directed to civilian enterprises. Concomitantly, attrition through emigration, retirement and natural processes occurred."UN inspectors identified approximately 3,500 former WMD-associated individuals in Iraq prior to OIF based on Iraqi declarations of WMD-associated personnel. However, according to an NMD official interviewed after the war, this list included many non-WMD personnel to confuse the inspectors. By way of reference, in 2002, the Intelligence Community identified approximately 1,000 personnel believed




associated with the Regime’s WMD-related activities."While the danger remains that hostile foreign governments, terrorists or insurgents may seek Iraqi expertise, the subset of individuals who possess the unique WMD skills of proliferation concern is numerically small. However, because a single individual can advance certain WMD activities, it remains an important concern."In December 2003 the US government announced a Short-term Program to Support the redirection of former Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) scientists, technicians and engineers to civilian employment and discourage emigration of this community from Iraq. The short-term program is intended to jump-start this process through the creation of the Iraqi International Center for Science and Industry (IICSI). IT proposed a series of "quick-start" projects designed to serve as building blocks for the long-term Program; rapidly raise awareness among Iraqi WMD personnel of the Program as a preferable alternative to leaving the country in search of suitable employment; and engage the target audience of former WMD personnel with critical qualifications and skills, who, if they were to emigrate, could significantly advance the WMD programs of other states or terrorists.Since 2004, DOE began working to identify, contact, and find employment for Iraqi scientists in peaceful joint research and development projects. DOE’s efforts were undertaken at the request of State, which has overall responsibility for coordinating nonproliferation activities and scientist assistance efforts in Iraq. DOE and State coordinate their activities through regular meetings and correspondence, participation in weekly teleconferences, interagency proposal review meetings, and coordination on strategic planning and upcoming events.Through May 2007, DOE had spent about $2.7 million to support its activities in Iraq. DOE had approved 29 projects, the majority of which are administered by Sandia National Laboratories. These include projects on radon exposure, radionuclides in the Baghdad watershed, and the development of salt tolerant wheat strains. However, owing to the uncertain security situation in Iraq, DOE and national laboratory officials told us that these are short-term projects. Sandia National Laboratory officials acknowledged that most of the projects DOE is funding in Iraq have no commercialization potential.An alleged policy plan of the Islamic State outlines some imaginative, if unrealistic, plots of the would-be terrorist state, including bribing Russia with access to oilfields in exchange for nuclear technology, and digging a canal across the UAE. The document reported by Britain’s Sunday Times in October 2014 is alleged to have been written by Abdullah Ahmed Meshedani, a member of the highly secretive six-man war cabinet of the terrorist group. It was supposedly captured by Iraqi special forces during a March raid on the home of a senior Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) member and said to have been confirmed as authentic by Western security officials.The 70-point plan provides an insight into the grandiose, if somewhat far-fetched, "strategy" aimed at undermining Shiites in the Arab world and Iran as that branch of Islam’s powerhouse nation. One of the goals listed in the documents is to offer Russia access to oilfields in Iraq’s Anbar province in exchange for Moscow severing ties with Tehran and sharing secret nuclear technology known to Iran with the IS. The bribe is also meant to convince the Russian government to stop supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad and ally with Sunni states of the Arab Gulf in their confrontation with Iran and Syria.A security source familiar with the document told the newspaper, “Nothing shocks Western governments these days in relation to ISIS and its fanatical aspirations. ... We’ve known and feared for some time that they want to obtain chemical and nuclear




weapons… So when you place their future aspirations against their current achievements, this document which purports to be the group’s manifesto does stop and make you think.”Islamic State is believed to have seized enough radioactive material to build a large “dirty” bomb, according to Australian intelligence reports. NATO expressed concerned about the supplies, according to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. According to Australian intelligence reports cited by The Independent in June 2015, ISIS militants possess radioactive material, mostly stolen from government facilities, enough to build a large and devastating dirty bomb – a conventional explosive that is meant to disperse radioactive material over a large area.At the Australia Group meeting, Bishop spoke about fears that ISIS is weaponizing poisonous gases such as chlorine. "The use of chlorine by Daesh [the Arabic term for IS], and its recruitment of highly technically trained professionals, including from the west, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development," she said at the time."Daesh is likely to have amongst its tens of thousands of recruits the technical expertise necessary to further refine precursor materials and build chemical weapons,” Bishop added, stating that the rise of militant groups such as ISIS is “one of the gravest security threats we face today.”The US is investigating an alleged chemical attack by Islamic State against Kurdish militia in northern Iraq. Washington reportedly suggests the jihadists used mustard gas, while the Kurds believe it was chlorine. Kurdish officials said their peshmerga forces were attacked with chemical weapons near the town of Makhmour, some 40 miles southwest of Erbil, on 11 August 2015. The German Defense Ministry, which is training the Kurds, said about 60 peshmerga fighters suffered injuries consistent with chemical weapons exposure during a battle with the Islamic State group.The allegations of chemical arms use by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) are taken very seriously, Alistair Baskey, the White House’s National Security Council spokesman, said. “We continue to monitor these reports closely, and would further stress that any use of chemicals or biological material as a weapon is completely inconsistent with international standards and norms regarding such capabilities,” Baskey stressed.

June, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop expressed her view that ISIS is capable of building chemical weapons in a speech last week to a anti-chemical weapons group in Australia. At Friday’s meeting in Perth, Bishop said, "Apart from some crude and small scale endeavors, the conventional wisdom has been that the terrorist intention to acquire and weaponize chemical agents has been aspirational. The use of chlorine by Daesh (ISIS), and its recruitment of highly technically trained professionals, including from the West, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development." Minister Bishop is the first senior politician in a major Western power to express so clearly and unequivocally the concern that ISIS now have the desire to develop chemical weapons for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria and perhaps beyond…is this a wake-up call for the International Community to act demonstratively to mitigate this threat or unhelpful scaremongering?ISIS have seen how effective chemical weapons have been in Syria. Chemical weapons have pretty much kept Assad in power since his near ‘fall’ in August 2013. ISIS have been on the receiving end of chlorine barrel bombs in Deir Ezzor in December 2014, which lead to their [ISIS] local tactical defeat. It is the ultimate




terror weapon, and not unsurprising that they crave it; as they have imbued the people of Iraq with so much terror that in some places, hitherto, they face little resistance. However, even given this so called expertise, they will not any time soon be able to produce deadly nerve agents like Sarin or VX, or fashion their much vaunted Uranium in Mosul into any kind of viable nuclear device. They will, however, continue to terrorize their attackers in Iraq and Syria with the very much less toxic but highly effective improvised chemical weapons such as chlorine. But the real significance to draw from the Australian Foreign Secretary’s comments is that ISIS do have a chemical weapons program, albeit primitive, they are training many Jihadists to make and plant improvised chemical bombs, and some of these people will find their way back to their home countries where they may continue the ISIS fight; as we’ve seen with the Lee Rigby murder in London, the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris and many more. What and where next? ISIS aim to create terror and inertia globally in order to further their efforts to establish their Caliphate and very evidently nothing is off limits…But vigilance and effective mitigation strategies, put in place now, can provide resilience to these threats to the Capitals of the World, and stiffen the resolve of those who oppose this terror.

16 Aug U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly believe the Islamic State used chemical weapons in Syria on Kurdish forces at least two weeks before the group may have used it in Iraq, U.S. officials said on Friday.The reports are fueling concerns that ISIS has acquired an arsenal of banned chemicals that could escalate fighting in the region. “It could be a pattern,” a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the intelligence told The Wall Street Journal. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said the alleged use of chemical weapons should prompt the White House to review whether its making the right approach in Syria.“I think our administration needs to go back to the drawing table and take another look at this—not only are they using it on the Kurdish Peshmerga, but what’s to say they don’t start using it against American soldiers as well?” Ernst told the newspaper.

This is the first documented case of IS using chemical weapons against Kurds, Xelil said. The YPG has issued a statement saying that there have been recent incidents indicating that a chemical attack by Islamic State was possible. Kurdish militia is said to have captured industrial grade gas masks from IS, “confirming that they are prepared and equipped for chemical warfare along this sector of the front.”

ISIS used chemical weapons against Kurds – monitorPublished time: 17 Jul, 2015 While there have been unconfirmed reports of IS fighters using toxic substances in the past, the rights group claims it has documented the accounts from the June 28 chemical weapons attack in detail. According to the Observatory, the attack targeted the village of Rajm al-Tfihi, located south of Tal Brak in Syria’s north-eastern Al-Hasakah Governorate. At least 12 YPG (Kurdish People’s Defense Units) fighters suffered vomiting, suffocation and eye-burns in the aftermath of an IS shelling of the village, the report says.The monitor obtained doctors’ testimonies and laboratory analysis that it says confirm that the extremist group used some sort of a poison gas in the attack. It has not been determined whether the gas used was chlorine or another substance, the report says.

Nuclear Smugglers Tried Selling Radioactive Materials To ISIS"In the age of the Islamic State, it's especially terrifying to have real smugglers of nuclear bomb material apparently making connections with real buyers."




By DESMOND BUTLER, VADIM GHIRDAPosted: 10/06/2015 CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned. The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium — enough to contaminate several city blocks — and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group.Criminal organizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB's successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny and impoverished country of Moldova, investigators say. The successful busts, however, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.Moldovan police and judicial authorities shared investigative case files with AP in an effort to spotlight how dangerous the nuclear black market has become. They say the breakdown in cooperation between Russia and the West means that it has become much harder to know whether smugglers are finding ways to move parts of Russia's vast store of radioactive materials — an unknown quantity of which has leached into the black market."We can expect more of these cases," said Constantin Malic, a Moldovan police officer who investigated all four cases. "As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it."

In wiretaps, videotaped arrests, photographs of bomb-grade material, documents and interviews, AP found a troubling vulnerability in the anti-smuggling strategy. From the first known Moldovan case in 2010 to the most recent one in February, a pattern has emerged: Authorities pounce on suspects in the early stages of a deal, giving the ringleaders a chance to escape with their nuclear contraband — an indication that the threat from the nuclear black market in the Balkans is far from under control. Moldovan investigators can't be sure that the suspects who fled didn't hold on to the bulk of the nuclear materials. Nor do they know whether the groups, which are pursuing buyers who are enemies of the West, may have succeeded in selling deadly nuclear material to terrorists at a time when the Islamic State has made clear its ambition to use weapons of mass destruction. The cases involve secret meetings in a high-end nightclub; blue-prints for dirty bombs; and a nerve-shattered undercover investigator who slammed vodka shots before heading into meetings with smugglers. Informants and a police officer posing as a connected gangster — complete with a Mercedes Benz provided by the FBI — penetrated the smuggling gangs. The police used a combination of old-fashioned undercover tactics and high-tech gear, from radiation detectors to clothing threaded with recording devices.The Moldovan operations were built on a partnership between the FBI and a small team of Moldovan investigators — including Malic, who over five years went from near total ignorance of the frightening black market in his backyard to wrapping up four sting operations.




In this photo released on April 25, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, young boys known as the "lion cubs" hold rifles and Islamic State group flags as they exercise at a training camp in Tal Afar, near Mosul, northern Iraq. The Iraqi military has announced an agreement Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 on "security and intelligence cooperation" with Russia, Iran and Syria to help combat the Islamic State group. (Militant website via AP, File)"In the age of the Islamic State, it's especially terrifying to have real smugglers of nuclear bomb material apparently making connections with real buyers," says Matthew Bunn, a Harvard professor who led a secret study for the Clinton administration on the security of Russia's nuclear arsenal.The Moldovan investigators were well aware of the lethal consequences of just one slip-up. Posing as a representative's buyer, Malic was so terrified before meetings that he gulped shots of vodka to steel his nerves. Other cases contained elements of farce: In the cesium deal, an informant held a high-stakes meeting with a seller at an elite dance club filled with young people nibbling on sushi.In the case of the cesium, investigators said the one vial they ultimately recovered was a less radioactive form of cesium than the smugglers originally advertised, and not suitable for making a dirty bomb.

ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this June 27, 2011 combination of images provided by the Moldova General Police Inspectorate, a sample of uranium-235 is tested for radioactivity in Chisinau, Moldova. Teodor Chetrus, a former KGB informant who was involved in the uranium's sale, clung to a Soviet-era hatred of the West, according to former Moldova Police investigator Constantin Malic, repeatedly ranting about how the Americans need to be annihilated because of problems he thought they created in the Middle East. (Moldova Police via AP)




The most serious case began in the spring of 2011, with the investigation of a group led by a shadowy Russian named Alexandr Agheenco, "the colonel" to his cohorts, whom Moldovan authorities believe to be an officer with the Russian FSB, previously known as the KGB. A middle man working for the colonel was recorded arranging the sale of bomb-grade uranium, U-235, and blueprints for a dirty bomb to a man from Sudan, according to several officials. The blueprints were discovered in a raid of the middleman's home, according to police and court documents.Wiretapped conversations repeatedly exposed plots that targeted the United States, the Moldovan officials said. At one point the middleman told an informant posing as a buyer that it was essential that the smuggled uranium go to Arabs."He said to the informant on a wire: 'I really want an Islamic buyer because they will bomb the Americans,'" said Malic, the investigator.As in the other cases, investigators arrested mostly mid-level players after an early exchange of cash and radioactive goods.The ringleader, the colonel, got away. Police cannot determine whether he had more nuclear material. His partner, who wanted to "annihilate America," is out of prison.

July 10, 2015 Special Dispatch No.6101 Pakistani Urdu Daily: 'Saudi Arabia Should Acquire Nuclear Technology... Against Iran's Expansionist Designs'Remarks in April 2015 by Saudi Religious Affairs Minister 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-'Ammar regarding Pakistan's nuclear weapons led to a debate in the Pakistani press on the issue. Al-'Ammar, whose statement in the Pakistani Urdu media was translated into English by MEMRI, said, "Pakistan's atom [bomb] is not of Pakistan alone but is of the world of Islam. The entire world of Islam is proud of it."[1] In a recent article, the Urdu-language Pakistani daily Roznama Jasarat argued that Saudi Arabia should indeed acquire nuclear technology. The article, titled "Atomic Technology Is Saudi Arabia's Right," by Abdul Sattar Khan, argued that if the U.S. could permit Tehran to expand its nuclear program by signing a nuclear pact with it, then Saudi Arabia also has a right to acquire nuclear weapons, in order to maintain a balance of power in the Middle East. Roznama Jasarat is a widely circulated right-wing daily and is considered a mouthpiece of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. Following are excerpts from Abdul Sattar Khan's article:[2]

The article in Roznama Jasarat"The Fact That Pakistan's Nuclear Technology Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Cooperation Of The Saudi Brothers Is Not Concealed From Anyone" "Last week, the international media discussed

the fact that Saudi Arabia is trying to acquire nuclear weapons. Instead of saying it in a roundabout manner, it would be better if it was stated clearly that Saudi Arabia desires to acquire ready-to-use nuclear weapons from Pakistan. Analysts had said this when Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Prince Muhammad bin Salman had visited Pakistan. It was even claimed that Pakistan has agreed to give nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia. "There is no doubt that Saudi Arabia is not only a



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peaceful country itself, but that it also works towards international peace, security, and stability. It has not only adopted a principled stand of clearing the region of destructive weapons, but has also signed international treaties to keep the world safe from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. "After the emergence of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the nuclear club has apparently been limited to only a few countries. Apart from the five permanent members of the [UN] Security Council, Pakistan, India, North Korea and Israel are included [in this club]. This is the formal list. However, the informal list lists 35 countries as possessing nuclear weapons. "[Saudi] Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Prince Muhammad bin Salman's Islamabad visit was viewed with surprise, though it was not the first such visit by a high-ranking, responsible Saudi official. This is because relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are not just based on traditional friendship but take place because both countries share common values and also common interests. The military and defense cooperation between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is a natural outcome of this. "The fact that Pakistan's nuclear technology would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Saudi brothers is not concealed from anyone. It is also no longer a secret that [the Saudi] cooperation was not only financial but also strategic in nature. Therefore, it is not surprising when a high-ranking Saudi delegation visits Islamabad; rather it should be surprising and worrying when no high-ranking Saudi delegation visits Islamabad.""Saudi Arabia And Gulf Countries Have A Right To... Acquire Nuclear Technology For Their Security And To Maintain Balance Of Power In The Region Against Iran's Nuclear Program""Now the question arises: Is Saudi Arabia really trying to acquire nuclear weapons? Though there is no official response about it yet, positive or negative, what needs to be thought about is: Why can't Saudi Arabia acquire nuclear weapons? The Western media's claim that Pakistan has agreed to hand over ready-made nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia has no leg to stand on. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are countries that abide by international treaties. On the basis of the agreements Pakistan has signed, it cannot sell or transfer nuclear technology to another country. "Similarly, Saudi Arabia has signed treaties that prohibit it from acquiring nuclear technology for military purposes. When America can permit Iran to expand its nuclear program by signing an agreement with it, albeit on a limited scale, then, to maintain a balance in the region, how is it that Saudi Arabia has no right to acquire nuclear weapons for its security – like Pakistan acquired nuclear weapons in response to India's to maintain the balance of power in the region [of South Asia]? Politically and ideologically, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries have a right to try to acquire nuclear technology for their security and to maintain a balance of power in the region against Iran's nuclear program. This fact is not hidden from anybody. "In fact, after the increase in [Iran's] influence in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, it has become clearer that the possible targets of Iran's nuclear program are the Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia. Iran is a persistent threat for the Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia. [Iran's] atomic program is in the development stage, but when it matures it will not be just a defensive weapon. However, Saudi Arabia has signed defense pacts with America and Pakistan. And Pakistan has repeatedly expressed the view that if Saudi Arabia's integrity is threatened, it would not remain silent..."




"Saudi Arabia Is Caught In Conflict-Ridden Regions; To Make It Safe And Secure From A Possible Rage For Atomic War, It Should Acquire Nuclear Technology Forthwith""For this, the balance of power needs to be maintained in the region against Iran's nuclear program. Saudi Arabia is not only the guardian country of Haramain Sharifain [the Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina]; its land also meets the oil needs of the whole world. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim arrive here annually for pilgrimage. It not only leads the ummah, but is also the center of attention for the Muslims of the whole world. Is this reason not enough that Saudi Arabia should acquire nuclear technology to protect its interests and build a bulwark against Iran's expansionist designs? "Saudi Arabia is caught in conflict-ridden regions. To make it safe and secure from a possible rage for atomic war, it should acquire nuclear technology forthwith. Saudi Arabia has the world's latest weapons of war, which were tested in the Decisive Storm operation [in Yemen]. "Basically, Saudi Arabia promotes freeing the whole world of weapons of mass destruction – but if the region's balance of power goes wrong, it can change its principled stance. Today's world understands only the language of power. Saudi Arabia, because of its spiritual and economic power, is the world's most influential country. By acquiring nuclear weapons to maintain a balance of power in the region, it will enhance its dignity. "Wisdom demands that powerful friends be trusted. But complete reliance on friends [such as America] is not very wise. In the world of

interests, standards of enmity and friendship are not static. The one with power can not only explain its point of view, but is able to get its view accepted. If Saudi Arabia is trying to acquire nuclear weapons, it needs to be understood that this is not in its nature, but that circumstances are forcing it to do so..." Endnotes:[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 6066,

Saudi Deputy Minister Of Religious Affairs: 'Pakistan's Atomic Bomb Belongs To The World Of Islam'; Yemen's Houthi Rebels And Their Patrons Dream Of Occupying Mecca And Medina, June 5, 2015.[2] Roznama Jasarat (Pakistan), June 4, 2015.

August 4, 2015 Special Dispatch No.6123 Pakistani Islamist Urdu Daily: 'There Is No Justification For Stopping Any Muslim Country From Making Nuclear Weapons And Becoming A Nuclear Power' Following are excerpts from the editorial of the Pakistani Urdu newspaper Roznama Jasarat, an Islamist daily affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, on the July 14, 2015 Iran nuclear deal.[1]

"At last... Iran and the six world powers have agreed on a nuclear accord. According to the agreement reached in Vienna after 13 years, Iran will not be able to make nuclear weapons. However, it will have permission to acquire nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.



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"The entire international fraternity, including Pakistan, has welcomed this agreement. But Israel, as expected, has opposed it. The reason for its opposition is that it does not want to see any Muslim country becoming powerful. "Therefore, [Israel] first attacked Iraq's nuclear installations and then, through America, it destroyed Iraq to the point that fire is still raging there. The Iran-Iraq war [in the 1980s] was started under a conspiracy, in which both Muslim countries suffered. As far as the Vienna agreement is concerned, Iran will benefit from the lifting of the economic sanctions imposed by America. But restrictions on the purchase of weapons will continue for another five years."Due to American threats, other countries were also avoiding economic ties with Iran. They will have permission now to conduct them. The Pakistan-Iran gas supply project has been hanging in the air for several years. It has not only been signed, but there is a provision of imposing fines on Pakistan in case of a delay. Pakistani rulers did not act upon the agreement in fear of America. However, now, Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that work can begin on Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project in September."It is true that Iran will derive huge benefits from the Vienna agreement, but our [Roznama Jasarat's] stance remains that there is no justification for stopping any Muslim country from making nuclear weapons and becoming a nuclear power."There are seven nuclear countries in the world. Apart from those, there are certain countries which have nuclear capabilities but have not declared it, and Israel is among them. Whereas in the Islamic world, Pakistan is the only nuclear country."Apart from that, either Christian countries or the Hindu state Bharat [i.e. India, have nuclear weapons]. The countries which have become nuclear powers are striving for no other country, especially a Muslim country, to obtain this power."Pakistan, undergoing difficulties and ignoring American and European threats, attained nuclear power. If Iran had wanted to acquire this capability, there was no justification for the powers that have the monopoly [on nuclear technology] to impose sanctions [on Iran]." Endnote: [1] Roznama Jasarat (Pakistan), July 16, 2015.

Enemy of Enemies: The Rise of DAESH, some years ago I warned about the growing danger of salafist ideologists perusing the Caliphate and the unknown force that would be generated if the Caliph would be declared; nobody listened. –Cees.



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