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2018-04-11 Arabia
Saudi considering proposal to set up military base, nuclear waste site on Qatar border
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 could consider a proposal to dig a maritime canal along the kingdom's border with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, turning the peninsula-nation into an island and transforming its only land border into a military zone and nuclear waste site, state-linked Saudi newspapers reported on Monday.

The project has not been given official approval and faces many obstacles. Still, the proposal signals a new low in the 10-month-old feud between Qatar and a quartet of nations that includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain.

The four accuse Qatar of sponsoring terrorism because of its support for miltant opposition groups in the region and its warm relations with Iran. Qatar denies the allegations and says the moves attempt to undermine its illusory sovereignty.

Qatar's ruling emir, Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, met in Washington on Monday with United States Defence Secretary Jim Mattis. He is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia's Sabq and al-Riyadh newspapers carried nearly identical reports Monday saying that under the proposal, Saudi Arabia would transform part of its side of the border with Qatar into a military base and another area would become a dump site for waste from nuclear reactors the kingdom wants to build.

The UAE, meanwhile, would also build a nuclear waste site at the closest point near its border with Qatar.

An earlier report by Sabq newspaper ran with a headline saying the canal project would "turn Qatar into an island" and would take just 12 months to complete.

The so-called Salwa Marine Canal project would be funded by Saudi and Emirati investors and dug by Egyptian companies with experience in the Suez Canal.

Sabq reports the canal would span the entirety of the border with Qatar, creating waterfront coastline for resorts, private beaches and Gulf cruise liners. The canal, estimated to cost 2.8 billion riyals ($750 million), would stretch 200 meters wide and up to 20 meters deep.
Posted by Fred 2018-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia 

#1 A moat dug by Egyptian companies with experience in the Suez Canal more than 100 years ago?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-11 00:40||   2018-04-11 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing so exciting, Skidmark dear. They dug a new section in 2014-15. See here.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-11 00:44||   2018-04-11 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2018-04-11 02:09||   2018-04-11 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Rude. Maybe that's why I find myself laughing.
Posted by gorb 2018-04-11 07:05||   2018-04-11 07:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, I suppose the nuclear waste sites will be a good mask for orbital detectors.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-11 08:09||   2018-04-11 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 turning the peninsula-nation into an island and transforming its only land border into a military zone and nuclear waste site,

Saudi version of building a wall?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-11 09:12||   2018-04-11 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 As I recall, they piled up a long sand dune along at least some of the border with Yemen before the current excitements.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-11 12:27||   2018-04-11 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 I seem to recall that the term berm was used not to long ago for certain defensive structures in that area.

Posted by AlanC 2018-04-11 12:42||   2018-04-11 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Can we seize Harry Reid's ranch for public use ( à la Kelo) and put a nuclear waste repository there?
Posted by magpie 2018-04-11 14:17||   2018-04-11 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Re #8: 1973???
Posted by borgboy 2018-04-11 15:27||   2018-04-11 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 1991. Desert War I, the Iraqis built extensive earthen walls ('berms') in Kuwait.
Posted by magpie 2018-04-11 15:39||   2018-04-11 15:39|| Front Page Top

#12 And as I recall we put Dozer/cattle catcher blades on armored vehicles that buried the Elite Iraqi Army Divisions™ when they plowed thru
Posted by Frank G 2018-04-11 20:40||   2018-04-11 20:40|| Front Page Top

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