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1994 Saudia Arabia Special Weapons News

• Diplomatic Renegade by Jason D. Goldman Washington Ripple Volume IX, Issue I November 1994 - In August 1994 the US government granted political asylum to "Mohammed al-Khilewi, a dissident Saudi diplomat, [and] an expert in the field of nuclear proliferation [who] was his country's delegate to the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) talks" The diplomat smuggled 13,000 documents that reportedly show that "Saudi Arabia has engaged in a secret 20-year campaign to acquire nuclear weapons. As part of its search, the oil-rich state poured billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein's drive to build a bomb even as the Iraqi dictator was planning the invasion of Kuwait... Saudi Arabia set up its own nuclear research center to study how to buy a bomb, although there is no evidence it has yet tried to build its own weapon.... Under the Iraqi-Saudi pact, Saudi Arabia would fund Iraq's nuclear weapons development program designed to turn low-grade uranium into bomb-grade material. In return, Iraq agreed to give the Saudis some of the nuclear weapons it developed."

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