Perhaps in response to the nuclear weapons program that has been secretly developing for years in Iran, Saudi Arabia is working secretly on its own nuclear program with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reported.
It says that during pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia and would "disappear" from their hotel rooms, sometimes for up to three weeks, German security expert Udo Ulfkotte said.
According to Western security services, Saudi scientists have been working since the mid-1990s in Pakistan, a nuclear power since 1998 thanks to A.Q. Khan.
Cicero also quoted U.S. military analyst John Pike as saying that Saudi bar codes can be found on half of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons "because it is Saudi Arabia which ultimately co-financed the Pakistani atomic nuclear program."
Satellite images reportedly show that Saudi Arabia has set up a secret underground city and dozens of underground silos for missiles in al-Sulaiyil, south of Riyadh. According to some Western security services, long-range Ghauri-type missiles of Pakistani-origin are housed inside the silos.
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