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Oil Tumbles After Saudis Declare End To Yemen Aerial Bombing Campaign
Saudi Arabia said its campaign of airstrikes in Yemen have succeeded in removing threats to the kingdom and other regional countries, bringing to an end Operation "Decisive Storm." As Bloomberg reports, the Saudi Defense Ministry said a coalition of mostly Sunni Muslim nations has “successfully eliminated the threat to the security of Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries,” by destroying the heavy weaponry and ballistic missiles held by the Shiite Houthi rebels. This comes one day after Gulf envoys told The United Nations that Yemen strikes won't end soon. Saudi Arabia hopes to restart a Yemeni political process and will begin "Operation New Hope," which appears to mean Saudi National Guard ground troops.
- *SAUDI-LED COALITION TO END OPERATION DECISIVE STORM IN YEMEN
- *SAUDI COALITION TO START `OPERATION NEW HOPE' IN YEMEN: ARABIYA
Coalition ends Operation Decisive Storm begins Operation Restore Hope in Yemen
— Saudi Embassy (@SaudiEmbassyUSA) April 21, 2015
Oil reacts... because war is over, right?
Of course it is also settlement day so Oil liquidty is thin at best and moves exaggerated.
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Saudi Arabia said its campaign of airstrikes in Yemen have succeeded in removing threats to the kingdom and other regional countries.
The operations by a coalition of mostly Sunni Muslim nations has “successfully eliminated the threat to the security of Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries,” by destroying the heavy weaponry and ballistic missiles held by the Shiite Houthi rebels, the Saudi Defense Ministry said in a statement late Tuesday carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. It didn’t say whether the campaign will continue.
The airstrikes were an attempt to roll back gains by the Houthis and force them to resume talks to resolve the country’s crisis. The rebels have driven Yemen’s Saudi-backed ruler, President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi, into exile.
Saudi and other Gulf Arab officials accuse the Houthis and their allies of being tools of Iran, a charge they have denied.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, earlier on Tuesday expressed optimism that the bombing of Yemen would end “within hours,” citing unspecified diplomatic efforts. The Houthis have said they’re willing to resume talks on a political settlement in Yemen, though they say they won’t accept Hadi’s return to power.
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But:
- *UN OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON SAUDI-LED COALITION OPERATIONS IN YEMEN
- *GULF ENVOYS TOLD UN YDAY YEMEN STRIKES WON'T END SOON: OFFICIAL
Meanwhile US warships continue to trawl the coast of Yemen...
This comes a day after U.S. Navy said aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was steaming toward the waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other American ships that are prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi rebels.
The deployment comes after a U.N. Security Council resolution last week imposed an arms embargo on Houthi leaders.
Arabian Sea -- USS Theodore Roosevelt and guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy conducting maritime security operations pic.twitter.com/WeRK68hsaa
— US Mission to NATO (@USNATO) April 21, 2015
The Navy has been beefing up its presence in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea in response to reports that a convoy of about eight Iranian ships is heading toward Yemen and possibly carrying arms for the Houthis. Navy officials said there are about nine U.S. warships in the region, including cruisers and destroyers carrying teams that can board and search other vessels.
And new Saudi King Salman has called up The National Guard...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has ordered the country's National Guard -- considered the Kingdom's best trained and equipped military force -- to join the military campaign against Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in neighboring Yemen.
National Guard troops had already deployed along Saudi Arabia's southern border with Yemen, but the order from Salman on Tuesday could pave the way for a long-discussed ground incursion into Yemen to confront the rebels, known as Houthis.
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We suspect war is not over.
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Tis the fire before the smoke this time....
Watching Saudi's fight is going to be like watching an episode of the three stooges.
If oil falls too far those Yemenis are as good as dead.
King Salmon... I still get a chuckle every time I read that name....
"...Saudi Arabia said its campaign of airstrikes in Yemen have succeeded in removing threats to the kingdom and other regional countries..."
Yeah... a few old Scuds. Any time someone who is not on the ZATO team has a few of those, the Scuds seem to end up being a particularly immenent threat to one very specific 'other regional country'. The solution is always to bomb the living shit out of the Scud-holders, even if you miss and take out a few thousand Yemenis. Kind of like the failed U.S. drone strikes that never seem to take out al Qaeda, but repeatedly result in many civilian deaths and a lot of destroyed infrastructure. It's the Gaza Strategy.
Note that the Houthis and half the Yemeni Army have never threatened Saudi Arabia. They're fighting to get rid of Hadi and build a representative government for all of Yemen. The Saudis, at first, repeatedly claimed they were bombing in order to restore their puppet Hadi, not to 'remove threats to the kingdom'. Nice hindsight policy change eagerly gobbled up by the MSM.
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Houthis are armed with what? AKs? What's the daily operating cost for a carrier battle group?
`OPERATION NEW HOPE'
It's workin out real good in America, everything is awesome!!!
You think they give a fuck what it costs? You're the one paying, citizen, so shut the fuck up and pay with blood and treasure.
lol
Let me know when we start the Aerial Bombardment of Saudi Arabia. I'll need time to get a bucket of popcorn. Dead Saudi's will be Entertaining!!!
Correction - Dead Saudi Royals. My guess is they will have to bomb Knightsbridge if they want to kill Saudis. Bishops Avenue in North London aka Hamstead Heath.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london-billionaire...
No no no, you stupid Wahhabi chucklefucks. You don't get to decide when it ends by pulling back and declaring victory. It looks to me like the Houthi decide when it ends, because they're a lot more desperate and a lot fiercer and a lot more willing to die than you are. If you're lucky they'll let you run home with your tails between your legs. If you're unlucky, well.... maybe they'll want some payback for 50 years of oppression by the US and Saudi-sponsored Vichy Yemeni government.
" We're not retreating, we're simply moving our troops in a different direction. "
. "Operation New Hope"
I am confused. Does this mean no Midi-chlorian images or are Midi-chlorian themselves blasphemy?
I think Wahhabis, Sufis, and Star Wars fans can all agree - Midichlorians are definitely haram.
Midichlorians and Jar Jar Binks. Two ideas that should have stayed in Lucas's head. It's hard to believe that he aid that out loud, let alone put them in film.
I have no idea what you speak of.
Jar Jar Binks was not in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, nor Return of the Jedi.
:)
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I've seen those movies. I still say my Reni had an influence on the visuals in the later movies. For example, the opening scenes of "Triumph of the Will" of my plane in the clouds and dropping down into Nuremberg - be still my heart. Those were the days.
I'm going to go salute myself in the mirror.
Operation "No Hope" just like in th U.S.
I thought they just committed ground troops?
Damn it! We need oil higher. Send some freedumb bombs over there and liberate those bastards!
We do need oil higher. Not exactly, but mahy in Texas and North Dakota do.
Operation "New Hope"... Lol.....They learned from the U.S propagandists well.
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I suspect our president told the king to stand down... we do have two aircraft carriers in the region conducting operations... what they are doing there and whose side they are actually on is probably classified... or undecided. Did the Iranian ships turn around... just sayin.
ONE aircraft carrier - the Theodore Roosevelt. The Carl Vinson already left the 5th Fleet AoA and is on its way back to San Diego.
The Yemeni's are fine guerrilla warriors.
SA is soft and fat.
They are biting off way too much.
Yes but the Saudis are experienced in fighting through the hedgerows of Harrods and Asprey on Bond Street.
Anyone piece this together yet? The Saudis supposedly overpump oil and are desparate to take Syria. Jim Willie says their gold is stolen in London by the UK and USA. The oil fields are dying. And Willie and a few others says the USAA will throw the Saudis under the bus and pivot to Iran.
This whole knishing of teeth with Obola making nice with iran and the Neo-cons and Neo-Libs enraged appears to be all theater.
Operation decisive storm sounds as efficient as "mission accomplished" of Bushist times/
Wasn't he "The Decider"?
Operation new hope.
As the US organizes chaos in the middle east, either directly or through its vassal states, it loves to use touchy feely names.
How about names that are more truthful and descriptive, like:
So far, over 180,000 Libyan refugees have flooded into Italy alone ... I bet Italians are mentally re-visiting the issue, "Why the F*ck did we bomb Libya ?" I remember how Gung-Ho Italy was to join France and drop as many bombs as they could to Free the Libyans.
Operation Till Death Do Us Part
I thought oil prices were going to tank in May anyway because the world is running out of storage and they're all still producing at full pelt?
As for SA, a kingdom of billionaire perverts drenched in the delusion of manifest destiny, entitlement and heinous crimes without consequences - that is one country desperately in need of getting its comeuppance for unleashing wahabism onto the world.
. . . and i swear by the moon and the stars in the sky. . . i'll be there . . . for better or worse. . . . mission unaccomplished!
Did they use Freedom Bombs and Peace Missles?
WTF is going on at Walmart? “There Are No Stores in Denver Metro Open Past Midnight” – Employees
I was in one yesterday and backed up cause a new policy of not price matching Reems stores? Not sure if local or all SLC stores.
The checker was denying 90% of the price matches that the infront of me cust had and she had the adds?
Something is going on.
AN eye for an eye and a bomb for a bomb. Does anyone doubt that the Houthis (and their buddies) are going to do something nasty inside Saudi Arabia?
I hope the Houthis kick their asses!
VERY informative reading on the subject:
How the U.S. Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis
TND Guest Contributor: Professor Stephen Zunes
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=464631
According to this report by a BBC hack, the War in Yemen is quite popular in the Kingdom, wonder if that sentiment will change when the body bags start arriving!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32381798
All in the time-honored US tradition of declaring "Peace With Honor". Two years after this declaration of victory, Saigon fell.
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Decisive Storm
Operation Oil Storm
Operation Perfect Storm
Operation Sh*t Storm
Operation Armchair Storm
Operation Holy Storm
Operation Divine Storm
Operation Cluster Storm
Operation Coke n Hookers Storm
Operations Riders On The Storm
America has its fingerprints all over this.
Who else would be protecting the Saudi "crown jewels" as much as the US government?