The news keeps getting worse for SoDamn Insane. The Saudis have agreed to allow the US to use the Prince Sultan Air Base as an air command center, as well as a base for certain unidentified US aircraft.
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In addition to the use of the air command and control center at Prince Sultan, 70 miles southeast of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, the agreements will allow the United States to fly refueling aircraft, AWACS surveillance planes and JSTARS battlefield radar aircraft from Saudi airfields, the sources said. The United States also will be permitted to use Saudi airfields to base fighter jets that undertake interception missions against Iraqi aircraft and that enforce the “no-fly” zone over southern Iraq.
A source said there also is a tacit agreement that will allow the United States to conduct bombing missions from Saudi Arabia in the days after an initial wave of U.S. air attacks as long as no public announcement was made.
SoDamn is toast, and sooner, rather than later.
Posted by Rich at February 26, 2003 11:33 AM | TrackBack