"Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites" Tomlinson

 "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.

In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.

To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert."  Tomlinson

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If this were true, and the plan were executed, the Saudis would pay a very high price in the Islamic World. The "legitimacy' of Al-Saud rule in the land of the emergence of Islam would be gone.  It has always been a bit shaky.  The reaction of the armed forces of Pakistan is incalculable in such a situation, and they ARE the Islamic nuclear power.  And what would Israel's air force accomplish in such an attack with conventional weapons?  Can Israel be this foolish?  Are the Saudis equally foolish?  I think not.  pl 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7148555.ece