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Multiple stories exist that indicate that Saudi Arabia has opened its air space to Israel's forthcoming attack on Iran, a fact denied by at least one Saudi prince. To borrow a phrase from Marvin Gaye, "what's going on?"

Clumsy US disinfo on Saudi Arabia?


Posted by Helena Cobban
June 12, 2010 11:11 AM EST | Link
Filed in Iran 2010 , Saudi


Several people have sent me a copy of this article in today's London Times, in which journo Hugh Tomlinson breathlessly "reports" that,

• Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.
  

It's crazy. The substance of this is intrinsically non-credible. So what sources did Tomlinson mention? Two kinds (which might actually be one and the same source?):

• * "a US defence source in the area" and
  * "Sources in Saudi Arabia"
  

All these source (or all this one source) is/are un-named, and Tomlinson does nothing further to identify them. Naturally. Just in case anyone might be inclined to take the report seriously, they might want to read this recent piece by the NYT's David Sanger.
Sanger was trying to figure out what options the Obama administration might be considering the event of the almost-certain "failure" of the latest U.N. sanctions resolution to stop Iran from pursuing its nuclear technology program (routinely described in the western MSM as a nuclear weapons program.)
He writes,

• There is a Plan B — actually, a Plan B, C, and D — parts of which are already unfolding across the Persian Gulf. The administration does not talk about them much, at least publicly, but they include old-style military containment and an operation known informally at the C.I.A. as the Braindrain Project to lure away Iran’s nuclear talent. By all accounts, Mr. Obama has ramped up a Bush-era covert program to undermine Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure, and he has made quiet diplomatic use of Israel’s lurking threat to take military action if diplomacy and pressure fail.
  

Bingo. But hey, what can you expect from a Rupert Murdoch rag?

http://justworldnews.org/archives/004037.html