This Will Work Out Fine

~ susie

It always does, doesn’t it?

LONDON – Saudi Arabia will allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the London Times reported on Saturday.

Quoting unnamed U.S. defense sources, the newspaper said Riyadh conducted tests to be sure its own jets would not be scrambled and missile defenses not be activated so Israeli bombers could pass by without problems.

The path would shorten Israel’s bomb run, The Times said.

Once the Israelis go through, the kingdom’s air defenses would return to full alert, the newspaper said.

“The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a U.S. defense source in the Persian Gulf area told the Times. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”

Sources in Saudi Arabia said it is common knowledge within kingdom defense circles that an arrangement is in place if Israel decides to launch the raid, the Times said. Despite the tension between the two governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

“We all know this. We will let them [the Israelis] through and see nothing,” a Saudi source told the Times.

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9 thoughts on “This Will Work Out Fine”

  1. Ya have to realize. Saudi Arabia is more terrified of an Iran nuke than Israel is. It wouldn’t surprise me if SA agreed to provide MA refueling for the IAF strike team.

    But of course, THAT would have to be kept real quiet.

    Michale32086

  3. @2: Well of course they have to deny it. And if their air defenses and radars are “off”, there won’t even be any data showing any aircraft passing through would there?

  4. Fredster,

    Well of course they have to deny it.

    Excellent point..

    The initial report was a clear message to Iran that their AGM-114 induced comeuppance is on the way..

    The follow up report was directed at the masses of their own citizens.

    Michale32086

  5. Will we never learn? Preventive war seldom prevents grief and pain for the perpetrator.

    Look at the US in Iraq.

    Way to go — Not.

    Now, where did Saddam put all those WMD….

  6. Why should Israel have nuclear weapons but not
    Iran
    Jordan
    Lebanon
    Saudi Arabia
    Egypt
    Every Country On Earth?

  7. Will we never learn? Preventive war seldom prevents grief and pain for the perpetrator.
    Look at the US in Iraq.
    Way to go — Not.
    Now, where did Saddam put all those WMD….

    No one can say what the alternative might have been.. As I mentioned over at chrisweigant.com, it’s entirely likely that taking out Saddam prevented another Iraq/Iran war that would have, in all likelihood, have gone nuclear.

    Unless you have a kewl alternate reality machine (Ever read Lester Del Rey’s THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE?? :D) no one can say for certain whether a course of action was the right course or the wrong course..

    Of course, I always lean towards getting rid of psychotic madmen who prey on innocents.. Guess that’s just the liberal in me.. 😀

    But you are correct..

    Except for ending slavery, fascism, nazism, communism and Saddam’s reign of terror, WAR has never solved anything. :^/

    Michale32086

  8. Why should Israel have nuclear weapons but not
    Iran
    Jordan
    Lebanon
    Saudi Arabia
    Egypt
    Every Country On Earth?

    For the same reason you don’t give an M-16 to a chimpanzee…

    Michale32086

  9. Let me say, for the record, that I respect the hell out of the King of Jordan…

    Anyone that puts in an appearance on STAR TREK: VOYAGER is all right in my book! 😀

    Michale32086

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