Orac, old chap, do try to keep up.............
See my post of the 7th for a timely link to the article on the Saudi Typhoon -v- Rafale question.
More importanly from my perspective is the other article in Business to which I provided a link. This concerns Saudi funding of the Pakistani nuclear bomb programme. Perhaps Ppruners were too busy to read it
or maybe I should have started a new thread to give it more prominence. On the other hand, the potential for a nuclear conflict in the Middle East may not be a subject worthy of this forum
By the way, I see that Israeli PM Mr Olmert has confirmed, for the first time that Israel has nuclear weapons (previous Israeli policy has always been to give ambiguous answers to the question). Perhaps Mr Olmert was stung into action by the statement from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "Thanks to people's wishes and God's will, the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards. This is what God has promised and what all nations want. Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out."
Even if his statement is judged not be a threat of armed conflict, it is still one country threatening/predicting regime change in another............maybe Ahmadinejad is a follower of Dubya after all
