"Wahhabis Go Nuclear — Literally!"--Pepe's Latest

[KoKo]

A long read from Pepe with many details and very Interesting, imho.

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Wahhabis Go Nuclear — Literally

By Pepe Escobar

May 22, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Asia Times" - The serious possibility of a nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 is only a few weeks away – on June 30.

So guess what the terminally paranoid House of Saud is up to: Lay their hands on a nuclear bomb to counteract the non-existent “Iranian bomb”, which Tehran, via Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has consistently abhorred as un-Islamic, and wouldn’t have it anyway because of stringent inspections bound to be part of the final nuclear deal.

The proverbial “former Pentagon official” has leaked to a Rupert Murdoch paper that the House of Saud is bound to buy a ready-made nuclear bomb from Pakistan. The choice of media already offers a clue; Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is one of News Corporation’s leading shareholders.

The “why now?” concerning the leak is pretty obvious. Yet the whodunit is hazier territory.

Meanwhile, adding fuel to the jihadi fire, as the Wahhabis in Riyadh dream of going — literally — nuclear their faith brothers across “Syraq” are going figuratively nuclear, adding victory after victory on the ground; from the assault on Palmyra, the Silk Road-era jewel of the desert in Syria, to the fall of Ramadi in the former “triangle of death” in Iraq.

The “Iranian bomb” was never really an issue for successive U.S. administrations; only a convenient pretext to box in, harass, sanction and “isolate” the Islamic Republic, the former “gendarme” of the Gulf in the Shah era. The U.S. government always knew nuclear bombs can be bought on the black market; so whether Tehran could develop a nuclear weapon was irrelevant.


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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41947.htm

Crossposted from "Asia Times"

[libdem4life]

1. That made my head spin. Wonder who the Empire of Chaos was? Hmmm.

There are no good answers, let alone questions or solutions. I sure hope the Bible is a book of fiction, because if that last chapter is truly prophetic, we're well on our way down that Last Road to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

[bemildred]

2. Daesh poses 'unparalleled threat': Nasrallah

BEIRUT

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Sunday that his troops would be deployed across all Syria.

Referring to Daesh – which controls large swaths of land in both Syria and Iraq – he added that the group posed "unparalleled threats."

"Daesh is now present in a large part of Syria," Nasrallah said in an address on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the liberation of southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation.

He added that the militant group was also present in Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/515917--daesh-poses-unparalleled-threat-nasrallah

[KoKo]

3. I've wondered

how Nasrallah would be able to cope with ISIL in Syria taking so much territory. If his supply lines are weakened by ISIL he's going to need help from other fighters....but, who? Will Lebanon forces help him when they've tried to keep a distance but surely must be worried about their own survival? What other faction now in Syria might align with him?