This crossed the wire earlier today (yesterday BST) but now there are a dozen other sources carrying the story.
The Saudis hate the Iranians and want to overthrow Assad in Syria.
They don't much like the Jews either.
From the National Post:
AFP PHOTO / INTER SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS/ HandoutThis
handout photograph released by Pakistan's Inter Services Public
Relations (ISPR) office shows a Hatf IX short-range nuclear-capable
ballistic missile launched from an undisclosed location in Pakistan on
May 29, 2012. Pakistan said on May 29 it had successfully test fired a
short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile. It was the third time
Pakistan had test-fired a ballistic missile since arch-rival India last
month launched its new long-range Agni V, capable of hitting targets
anywhere in China.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly invested in the Pakistan nuclear program and has atomic weapons “on order” ready to be delivered.
The Saudis have long been interested in obtaining nuclear weapons to counter the possibility of an nuclear-armed Iran.
The BBC quotes a senior NATO source saying Pakistani nuclear weapons are ready and waiting to be delivered to Saudi Arabia.
The Newsnight report also cites former chief of Israeli military intelligence, Amos Yadlin, who told a conference in Sweden last month that if Iran acquired a nuclear bomb, “the Saudis will not wait one month. They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring.”
Saudi Arabia purchased nuclear-capable ballistic missile launchers in the late 1980s from China, the report says....MORE
