We have a pretty dramatic story this afternoon on Military.com from our Associate Editor Bryant Jordan.
The sharp-eared gumshoe picked up a throw away line during a panel discussion yesterday that had giant implications. Here's a taste:
According to an expert on the Middle East, Israel may soon no longer be alone in possessing nuclear weapons in that volatile region of the globe.But the other power with "the bomb" may not necessarily be Iran. While some countries claim Tehran is bent on becoming a nuclear-armed power – a claim Iran denies – an Arab country already is taking steps to go nuclear, says Jim Hoagland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist, who spoke Thursday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"As a senior Arab political official who was in town recently said to a small group of us, [that] it's clear there is already activity underway on the Arab side on the development of nuclear weapons," Hoagland told a packed room at the institute's offices. Hoagland did not identify the Arab official or others in the "small group," and hastened to add that there were "no details to provide."
Bryant tried to reach Hoagland but to no avail. He got some comments from a nuke watchdog group and some analysts, but he's still digging into who Hoagland might have been talking about.
Read the entire story HERE.
-- Christian