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05ABUDHABI4239
2005-10-09 07:45:00
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Embassy Abu Dhabi
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MEDIA REACTION: NONPROLIFERATION/DEMOCRACY IN THE

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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 04239

SIPDIS
CXABU:
 ACTION: PAO
 INFO: ECON POL AMB DCM

DISSEMINATION: PAO
CHARGE: PROG

APPROVED: ADCM:HOLSIN-WINDECKE
DRAFTED: PAO:AHOSHAN
CLEARED: PAO:WWROBERTSON

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FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1919
RUENAAA/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC IMMEDIATE
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC IMMEDIATE
RUEHZM/GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 004239 

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE; NSC
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR ZEYA
LONDON PASS TO MOC

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: NONPROLIFERATION/DEMOCRACY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST


UNCLAS ABU DHABI 004239

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE; NSC
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR ZEYA
LONDON PASS TO MOC

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: NONPROLIFERATION/DEMOCRACY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST



1. SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST WONDERS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ARABS
SUCCEED IN ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. HE NOTES THAT ARAB
CAPITALS WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY OTHER ARABS IF THEY HAD
POSSESSED NUCLEAR WEAPONS. HE CONCLUDES THAT IT IS THE WISDOM OF
GOD THAT PLACED NUCLEAR WEAPONS OUT OF THE REACH OF ARABS' HANDS.
END SUMMARY.


2. Abdullah Rasheed wrote in, Abu Dhabi-Based Arabic Daily "Al
Ittihad," 10/3 (circulation 65,000):

"The most important question raised regarding the nuclear
aspirations of certain countries, namely Iran and North Korea, is
not who does not have the right to possess nuclear weapons, but
who has the right to possess nuclear weapons? Answering this
question would lead us to a number of side questions such as, are
there sane nations and insane ones? And what would happen if
such a weapon became available to the hands of insane people?
Because we, Arabs, are possessed with the conspiracy theory, and
we always consider ourselves victims of imperialist, Zionist and
Western conspiring, I will focus on the possibility of us, Arabs,
acquiring such a dangerous weapon."


3. ". The question that I want to ask is, what would happen if
an Arab nation, God forbid, possesses a nuclear weapon? I
believe the answer is clear. If a Lebanese faction had a nuclear
power, that nation would have been wiped from the map forever.
And if a Yemeni group possessed a nuclear weapon, Sanna or Aden
would have become like Hiroshima or Nagasaki on the 16th of
August 1945."


4. "HOWEVER, IF SADDAM AND KHOMEINI OR ONE OF THEM HAD NUCLEAR
POWER, TWO THIRDS OF IRAQI AND IRANIAN CITIES WOULD HAVE BEEN
DESTROYED, AND IF SADDAM SUCCEEDED IN ACQUIRING NUCLEAR POWER
FOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS NUCLEAR REACTOR IN THE MID
1980S, ALL GCC CAPITALS WOULD HAVE BEEN BURNED AND DESTROYED..IT
IS THE WISDOM OF GOD THAT PLACED NUCLEAR WEAPONS OUT OF REACH OF
OUR HANDS."


5. Under the headline " What is Rice cooking up?", English daily
"Gulf News", 10/3 (circulation 95,000):

"Listening to an American secretary of state talk about democracy
in the Middle East, considering Washington's record in
overthrowing democratically elected regimes, is a touch
nauseating, especially when set against a background of thinly-
veiled hints of action against Iran and Syria that come almost
daily from some American official. Washington in 2003 was not
looking for a reason to go to war, it was looking for an excuse.
What is Rice looking for now? More military action in the region,
coupling democracy with an air strike on some Iraqi town or
Gaza?"
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