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In Major Escalation, Yemen Rebels Fire Scud Missile Into Saudi Arabia

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Just two days after reports indicated that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels were prepared to participate in UN-brokered peace talks with Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government in exile, clashes on the Saudi border have intensified. 

On Friday, the Saudi press agency said it had used Apache helicopters and artillery to repel a Houthi-led advance, killing “dozens” of militants. Four Saudis were also killed. 

Meanwhile, Riyadh stepped up airstrikes around the Yemeni capital targeting what the Saudis say were arms depots. The Houthis, however, say the aerial bombardment is inflicting untold civilian casualties, mostly women and children. Here's Reuters:

Coalition Arab bombings killed around 58 people across Yemen on Wednesday and Thursday, the state news agency Saba, controlled by the Houthis, said.

 

48 people, most of them women and children, were killed in air strikes on their houses in the Houthi heartland in the rural far north adjoining Saudi Arabia.

 

The reports could not be independently verified.

On Saturday, Riyadh claimed the Houthis, in concert with forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, fired a scud missile at Saudi Arabia for the first time.

The scud, which apparently targeted the city of Khamis Mushait in southwest Saudi Arabia, was intercepted by two Patriot missiles. “At 2:45am on Saturday morning, the Houthi militias and ousted [president] Ali Abdullah Saleh launched a Scud missile in the direction of Khamees al-Mushait, and praise be to God, the Royal Saudi air defences blocked it with a Patriot missile," a statement said. 

Khamis Mushait is home to the US-desiged and constructed King Khalid Air Force base, from which airstrikes on Houthi positions have been launched throughout the conflict.

(King Khalid Air Force Base)

Friday’s attack by Abdullah Saleh’s Republican Guard and the Houthis in the Jizan province was billed as the largest “offensive” mounted by the rebels since the onset of hostilities months ago. The fighting reportedly began when rebels fired rockets at Saudi positions and promptly ended when the Saudi army called in air support from Apache gunships.

(a rebel fires on Saudi positions near the border)

Note that this latest escalation comes a month and a half after Saudi Arabia declared a George Bush-style "mission accomplished"-type end to operation Decisive Storm, claiming the 'coalition' airstrikes had "successfully eliminated the threat to the security of Saudi Arabia." 

The declaration looks to have been a bit premature. 

The Houthis are scheduled to attend peace talks in Geneva on June 14. That is unless the Saudis launch a ground invasion in the interim. 

 

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Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:50 | 6169016 IridiumRebel
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THERE WILL BE SCUD

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:54 | 6169023 svayambhu108
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hmm,

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:58 | 6169027 AlaricBalth
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I'll see your SCUD, and raise you a Patriot Anti-Missile battery.

http://www.govconwire.com/2014/10/saudi-arabia-plans-2b-patriot-missile-...

Oct. 2014 - "The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to purchase a Patriot Air Defense System from the U.S. government under a potential $1.75 billion foreign military sales agreement. The system consists of a set of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles and associated parts and equipment, as well as personnel training and logistics and technical support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday."

The proposed sale includes:

  • 202 PAC-3 missiles with containers
  • One Guidance Enhanced Missile flight test target/Patriot-as-a-Target
  • Two PAC-3 telemetry kits
  • Six fire solution computers
  • 36 launcher station modification kits
  • Two missile round trainers
  • Two PAC-3 slings
  • Six Patriot Automated Logistics System kits
  • Six shorting plugs

The contract will also cover spare and repair parts, repair and return services, technical documentation, lot validation and range support, ground support equipment and training equipment, DSCA said.It also calls for one U.S. contractor to assist in system checkout and equipment fielding on-site in Saudi Arabia over a three-year period.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:08 | 6169055 Took Red Pill
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This is small potatoes compared to the big war brewing;

"the Associated Press yesterday reports that the Pentagon has been actively considering the use of nuclear missiles against military targets inside Russia,"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-officials-consider-nuclear-strikes-against-russia/5453655

and of course war with China is on the table, too

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:12 | 6169059 Latina Lover
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Gee, 1 scud missile? Those Yemeni must be SO STUPID to given Saudi Arabia the pretext to step up their bombing raids /sarc off.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:46 | 6169131 Zero Point
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They'll fly a plane into a couple of towers of a completely unimportant (to any actual human) financial center next.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:28 | 6169249 Paveway IV
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The Saudis used a $14 Million dollar system to take out a thirty-year plus soviet-era liquid-fueled rocket of questionable accuracy? I thought the Israeli tactical nuke you used took out all the SCUDS? Good job, Saudi clowns. Kind of like using a Block A/B F-16 to drop laser-guided bombs on fast-moving, difficult-to-target residential structures in Saana. The Yemeni war is a cash-cow for the U.S. and Israel. This sounds like a one Hellfire per enemy combatant kind of war.

"We will kill as many Yemeni as needed to restore their corrupt western puppet president and protect our al-Qaeda assets. Oh... forget that last part."

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:38 | 6169290 winchester
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we scud's some folks

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:12 | 6169374 Pure Evil
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Premature declarations are akin to premature ejaculations, embarrassement for all parties concerned.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:17 | 6169532 The Juggernaut
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Fuck the Saudi's.  Its time they get theirs.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:43 | 6169997 Oh regional Indian
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All 3,486 Saudi princes can load up their Scuderia's and fire them at the Houthis.

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:46 | 6170003 SWRichmond
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It's 911 times a thousand

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 01:46 | 6170959 Gobbler
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I met Trish in the pumpkin patch.  She hit me with a watermellon.  Then fixed me a martini.  Good for her.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 03:27 | 6171035 Kiwi Pete
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Th Princes will havel all have advanced to their second homes in London by now. Chin chin!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:05 | 6169179 Stumpy4516
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The US supplies patriot missiles and other modern missiles to it's allies.  Russia refuses to honor it's fully signed contract to supply any such items to Syria or Iran.  Russia forces it's allies to give up chemical weapons, and then those allies are subjected to increased attacks and ultimately destruction.

Russia twice forced the EUke's to allow accept a cease fire so the WUke's could safely withdraw.  Look at where that got them.  Putin sets them up.

Putin consented to the sanctions against the rebels in Yemen.  Helping their enemies.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:44 | 6169573 Jack Burton
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Russia has changed it's mind and is right now filling the S-300 order to Iran. Both Russia and Iran say the order is being filled. Iranian soldiers long ago were in Russia to train on the system, so operators are ready to go when the missiles arrive. They are self contained and mobile, as are their radars, all the Iranians need do is flip the switch and drive away. This gives Israel a strong incentive to attack the missiles before they drive away!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 14:03 | 6169602 Stumpy4516
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We can only hope Putin finally lives up to the contract signed long ago.  But as of now he has not.  For now it is just more talk and cannot actually be counted on until real units arrive in Iran.  I would submit that if Putin was truely an ally, considering the situation in the ME, he would deliver the units now along with personnel to operate and train the Iranians.  Until then it is unreliable.

And poor Syria.  Abandoned by Putin despite an agreement and the claims that Russia was an ally to be trusted.

If they do arrive in Iran it will be highly public as Iran would want to make it known.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:22 | 6169945 Lurk Skywatcher
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Not just in chess, a good checkers player will also sacrifice an important piece if it will benefit the end game.

I see you can't play either game very well.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 17:01 | 6170035 Stumpy4516
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Russia/Putin is good at sacrificing the lives of allies.

Iraq, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Yemen, East Ukraine and the list goes on.  It is the allies of Putin that do not know the game he plays with their lives.  He gets them dependent on just enough ammo from Russia to resist but to do so at a great disadvantage. 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 05:12 | 6171136 Lurk Skywatcher
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Its interesting that you blame Putin for the situation that these allies have found themselves in entirely due to actions orchestrated by the United States.

You expect him to play by the Americans rules, criticize him for not doing what they expect him to do... yet Putin has avoided every clumsy trap set for him.

Had Putin supported a East Ukranian push into Kiev, then NATO would have been fully mobilised and Russia would have had to fight them. Tactical mistakes like that are the hallmark of the USA, not Russia.

In addition to learning how to play chess, perhaps you should also read Sun Tzu.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 11:18 | 6171532 Stumpy4516
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Always the excueses for Pujtin and refusal to see.  The EUke's had no interest in pushng to Kiev, and you know that.  The EUke's had their enemy pinned down, inside EUke, and were prepared to destroy them.  The EUke's were not prepared to or planning to push to Kiev.  In fact they were not pushing anywhere they were set to destroy an enemy that had pushed into their area.  And then Putin came to the aid of the WUke's (not once but twice) and forced the EUke's to stand down and allow the WUke's to walk away. 

Now the EUke's are being killed by the same WUke's forces they had twice before fought and died while defeating.  Thanks to Putin.

You also make my point that when an allie of Russia finds themselves being destroyed by the west or their proxy army, entirely due to actions of the US, that Putin does, has and will abandon them.  It is intersting that not only does Russia abandon them but sets them up by forcing them to give up chemical weapons and any other WMD.  Putin even refused to deliver to Syria the S 300 missiles that Russia signed a contract to sell.  Meanwhile Syria has been destroyed.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:30 | 6171089 Counterpunch
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Better than average anti-Putinism, Stumpy.  Kudos, really...  and not one reference to anal sex or fellatio. You are to be taken seriously, it seems.

The only problem is the presumption Russia both can and should go to the mat for Assad against the US and NATO, Turkey, S.A., Qatar, Israel and to some extent others like Al Nusra, MB, and the other Wahhabi and takfiri mercs.


Notable that S.A. has had to use its own troops and pilots {though some were likely Israeli, it seems}.  Most of their mercs are bogged down in Syria and Iraq.  Internal divisions amongst the Kurds have likely frustrated hopes that some of them would mount an offensive on the SAA to relieve the "ISIS" golem in the East/NE of Syria.  who knows what is really going on - even people with the best intel of what's happening on the ground might be confronting a situation that's increasingly entropic.


Entropy, man -  on a long enough timeline, it frustrates even the best of plans.

 

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 15:44 | 6169847 flapdoodle
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Most likely it seems to me, the Russians never "reneged" on their contract. What I think happened is that the deal may have included a "just-in-time" clause - as in, "we will get you the S-300's in its most useful versions when the time comes"

This is a far sight better than having them gathering dust in Iran waiting for the Israelis (who no doubt would be able to figure out where they are and find means to neutralize them).

Unfortunately, if this is so, the implication is that its almost game time...

 

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:59 | 6170031 Stumpy4516
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Incorrect.  Russia was sued in international court by Iran for failure to adhere to the contract.  Of course the court put the suit to the side so Iran would not get it's missiles.

The west made a call and Putin blinked and reneged on the contract.  Puts France and the failure to deliver ships in a new light does it not.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 17:12 | 6170057 Max Steel
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You are right but partially . latest news is  russia  has agreed to sell s-300 with easing of sanctions and iran has agreed they will take back the case from intrntl court against russia . they have reconciled . rest with mistral failure its all french fault 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:26 | 6169247 NoVa
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House of SCUD ?

House of Saud?

 

any difference?

 

NoVa

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:22 | 6169407 logically possible
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Or, was that one Scud missle what was needed to  "seal the deal, complete the sell"  that is mentioned above for 1.75 billion? I just had to spell it out.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 12:16 | 6171635 americanreality
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I wonder when the TOW/SAMs stolen from the Benghazi blacksite will start to appear.  400 surface to air missiles floating around the ME. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:25 | 6169086 Keynesians say ...
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"We nuclear holocausted some folks"

O man from his honeymoon suite bunker in Cheyenne mountain with Reggie

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:22 | 6169235 BoredRoom
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LOL....Reggie is old news. Obama is sodomizing young Jewish twinks....Finkenbinder, Katz, Kass.....

 

 

http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/10/03/obamas-golfing-buddies/

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:25 | 6169246 Freddie
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Bushes, clintons and obola are all the sam eSatanists but it is hilarious watching the left's high toned hero cause the most global instability ever.   Things during Reagan and carter were so peaceful with far  far fewer false flags except the Skull and Bonz boys trying to kill Reagan then giving him a prion.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 15:17 | 6169782 SmittyinLA
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Russia could respond by publishing the home addresses of US government officials. IRS hack part deux.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:10 | 6169190 Anunnaki
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Did Hillary get her cut?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:28 | 6169256 RafterManFMJ
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Yea well, when I got my Patriot Missle Kit they forgot to 4 of the shorting plugs, and I had to ship the whole thing back before they'd send out a new kit. Fucking. Raytheon.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:31 | 6169442 TheMeatTrapper
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I bought mine on Amazon. Free shipping and great customer service. I don't know how they make money like that. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:17 | 6169531 Hard Assets
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Alrighty then !  Let's take a vote for a BIG, BIG fucking WAR !!

 

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Votes are in.....127  people voted yes....6.8 billion people said NO !!

 

Proceed with CAUTION !

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 15:28 | 6169806 BrerRabbit
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Put me down for a Yes. 128. woohoo!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 23:41 | 6170801 fascismlover
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Yemen needs nukes to glass over the house of Saud.  Where is the commercial to raise money for a Yemeni nuke?  You know..the one with the dogs in the kennels and cats hobbling around.  When I see the Yemen rebel nuke commercial, I am donating.  Change starts small.  

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:35 | 6169549 sgt_doom
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How dare the Obama Administration, or properly, the Bush/Obama Administration, support Saudi Arabia in anything!

The perpetrators of 9/11!

How dare the traitorous Wall Street scumtrash do such a thing.

I hope one thousand missiles are fired into the Royals of Saudi Arabia, and then fire some more into D.C.!

[Let us review the most recent fact derived from the Senate summary on CIA torture release a short time back:  the person in charge of the entire 9/11 script, from beginning to fictitious end at the CIA, was Alfreda Bikowsky Silverstein; her husband being David Silverstein, rightwinger with the FDD, etc.

Now, not a single douchebagging whorescum who call themselves TV journalists in the USA can bother to check and see that David Silverstein is the nephew of Shel Silverstein, of Silverstein Properties, mortgage holders of record of the WTC towers on 9/11/01?

Meanwhile, super-fruits like Bill Maher goes on TV and claims that "Why is America so obsessed with Caitlyn Jenner?"

Sorry, super-fruit Maher, but you're about the only douchebag talking about she/he/it --- instead of any real news!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 01:00 | 6170915 Counterpunch
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Israel and neocon traitors ran 9/11 with Saudis as patsies.

 

Get it right, please.

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:31 | 6170918 Counterpunch
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.

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 14:16 | 6169627 Kirk2NCC1701
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I am not shocked but I am awed at the level of Arms cycling going on globally -- even in previously quiet places. Note also that the three biggest arms exporters are the US, Russia, China.  

Bullish. 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:25 | 6171306 drendebe10
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The fudgepacker Nobel Peace Prize winner.  Right.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:54 | 6169024 Abitdodgie
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If you go around bombing country's then what do you think will happen.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:54 | 6169025 HonkyShogun
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Is this like where the IDF lobs missiles at themselves in Gaza to justify attacking someone else?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:58 | 6169030 Zafod
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Honky, you're free to visit Israeli cities surrounding Gaza and see for yourself from where the missiles are shot.

 

BTW, if it's the IDF lobbing them, why doesn't Hamas accuse the IDF of doing so, rather than say recent launches were made by ISIS supporting groups?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:40 | 6169115 Monetas
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The very word Palestine .... comes from the Hebrew word "Plishtim" .... invaders .... just like the women libbers can't invent their own words .... to replace "womb man" nor "fe male" .... the Palestinians have to borrow from the ancient Hebrew .... their very identity ! LOL

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:43 | 6169121 Monetas
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Jew to Palestinian: Who are you people and why are you invading Israel ?  Palestinian to Jew: I dunno, what do you call us ?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:05 | 6170180 Iwanttoknow
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Fuck off,hasbra trolls.Eat matzo ball through your bunghole.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:44 | 6171105 Counterpunch
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not quite, it came from an Egyptian word for the Philistines {or at least people in that area - Egypt ruled Palestine for hundreds of years, of course} and meant something like nomads.  it was first recorded in the temple inscription of Ramses III in 1190 BC.

But you do hit on something.  The indigenous people of Palestine, the 95% who were Christian and Muslim as late as the end of the 19th century, and the small population of Mizrahi Jews, and Samaritans, are the closest descendents of the ancient inhabitants of the region.

Arab invaders arrived and dominated but they were mostly male and intermarried and the population is a mix of waves of invaders and the ancient Philistine/Canaanite stock, as well as newer arrivals, Arab and Turk.  Palestinians are arabs because they belong to the arabic culture, not because their ancestors are actually {only, or even mostly} Arab.

 

They certainly have more of an origin in the land than the Ashkenazis. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:04 | 6169176 Tall Tom
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BTW, if it's the IDF lobbing them, why doesn't Hamas accuse the IDF of doing so, rather than say recent launches were made by ISIS supporting groups?

 

Considering that ISIS IS the Mercenary Armed Forces of the United States and the IDF I think that Hamas is saying just that...with a little more accuracy.

 

Note that ISIS NEVER ATTACKS ISRAEL. Why is that?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:13 | 6169198 Monetas
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ISIS wounded are treated at IDF military hospital in the Golan Heights .... more seriously wounded are flown to Tel Aviv ?  

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:35 | 6169281 Paveway IV
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Not true. Only the rebel's new and improved al-Qaeda - Jabat al Nusra head-choppers - are treated by Israel. Once they join fake ISIS, they apparently lose their health insurance.

Israel never attacks ISIS, ISIS never attacks Israel. Kind of like their friends and allies, except fake ISIS never vistits them. Al Nusra headchoppers are the only ones that drop by the Golan field hospitals to say "Hi' - usually after they have a leg blown off.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:18 | 6169395 Zafod
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Tom, ISIS is not attacking Israel in the same way is is not attacking Turkey or Saudi Arabia or Jordan. They're already fighting on two fronts and don't want to fight on three..

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 15:10 | 6169766 Max Steel
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See that is why you israelis are devoid of truth . Isis dont want 3rd front , ? only you people can swallow such terrible propaganda by your right wing nutjobs sitting in press doing yellow journalism . why would isis ever attack their own creators the one aiding andhelpingthem shamelessly ? israeli treating scumbags in occupied golanheights . wakeup .

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:22 | 6171253 Zafod
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have you ever read any Israeli right wing journalism?!

Obviously, it would have to be in Hebrew, which I assume you don't speak

I've never read the 3rd front argument anywhere. It makes sense to me given ISIS' history - just look at their tactics until now.

speaking of propoganda, do you have any evidene supporting the claim that we've created ISIS, or does it simply makes sense to you because "that's what jews do"?

you're racist and you're probably not even aware of this.

BTW, about the Golan heights, I'll give you a quick update. Nobody in the area claims to be Palestenian. Even if you look at maps of palestine by Palestenian authorities you'll see that it's not part of it.

Most of the population in the area, historically, supported Israel after we've annexed it. The recent uprising in Syira against Assad helps explain why.

Some Druze population continued to support Assad thinking we might give the area back to the Alawites at some point or the next. They've recently realized that this is very very unlikely. The current state is that practically anybody that currently lives there wishes the area not to be a part of Israel. That's why you no longer see deomonstrations there against the country.

You can just go there and talk to the people, I did

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 00:23 | 6173292 Ginsengbull
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Because it's too far.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:31 | 6169266 Deepskyy
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Don't bother arguing with them.  At one point the comments here were insightful,  then the ZOG skinhead-light brigade moved in and the commentary went to shit.  Some of these tinfoil hatters would blame the Mossad if they stubbed a toe on the way to the bathroom, claiming that agents broke in and moved their furniture during the night.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:13 | 6170660 conscious being
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Translation of Depskyy comment above: "We zinos bemoan the day the goyim to be sacrificed, left the cattle pen we so carefully constructed for their minds and now they no longer believe our MSM lies."  Believe me, I'm in tears about your so sad story. Go back to the still occupied territory of ^NewsWeek or the NYT if you don't like it before you get yourself an an aneurysm. Thanks.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:58 | 6169336 Freddie
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Yes.  We know the IDF is pretty good against civilians and a few gunmen in Gaza.   They got their asses kicked in 2006 by Hezbollah in Lebanon.   I doubt they will try to fight against Hezbollah again.  They will want to get NeoCon puppet John McCain's goyim cannon fodder for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=754AT7o5qx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLshdwXJto

Norman Finkelstein talking about how Israel lost in 2006 in Lebanon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe65-nF3FQ

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:08 | 6169517 Zafod
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Hezbollah (unsurprisingly) used guerilla tactics and operated from within civilian population in 2006. I guess if we squashed them further you would have said that we were too aggressive with the civilian population.

It's a good thing we have a country and an army of our own and don't need your approval :)

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:33 | 6169551 Hard Assets
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"I guess if we squashed them further you would have said that we were too aggressive with the civilian population."  (2006)

Zafod, you dipshit !!

That's what happened in 2014...how did that work out for you ??

Is the zionist, neo-con element of Israel unaware that the vast majority of the planet despises Net-a-yahoo and the IDF?

Are they that desperate that they have to team up with Saudi and Qatar and beat the snot out of Yemen?

BRICS, Iran , probably India and Japan must think that you guys are off your fucking rockers !

I as hell sure do.  

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:34 | 6169555 Hard Assets
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...and while we are being friendly and all...

 

Why doesn't a Ukrainian patriot put some of that infamous 30mm cannon-fire into Soro's old demented skull?

 

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:05 | 6169899 Freddie
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LOL!  Seems like they got destroyed often in open countryside by Hezbollah.  Often in wadi's or valleys.  

Give Hezbollah decent weapons and the IDF is not so tough and the Merkava is a piece of shit.  Those Russian Kornet and Metis anti-tank missiles were highly effective.

The IDF left or really fled Lebanon after a month and essentially sued for peace.

People do not like having their land invaded and stolen.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:46 | 6170722 conscious being
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Freddie, the youtube video you put up Iranian made Hezbollah's tactics 2006 War with Israel 1 of 3. the first of three 5 minute videos on the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, was excellent. Anyone interested should be sure to get to the 3rd and final one in the set. Hezbolla is just amazing.

Zafod is gonna eat his beanie if he watches this.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 00:19 | 6173286 Ginsengbull
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Israel lost 165 soldiers. Hezbollah lost over 1000, maybe 1300. Lebanon's infrastructure was decimated. 1 million Lebanese refugees displaced.

 

I guess it really was a loss... for Israel.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:07 | 6171293 Zafod
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The war left Nasrallah hiding underground for the last decade.

This is how parapoid he has become at the moment:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4663326,00.html

If that's your idea of victory.... :)

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:39 | 6169567 sgt_doom
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So speaketh Zafod, White Devil Trash!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:00 | 6169028 Max Steel
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How many pac-3 missile they fired to stop a single scud ? But west puppets will never tell . 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:57 | 6169029 Max Steel
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Saudis mist realize it aint their war in yemen . PAC-3 stopped single scud . Sauds should thank whothis for firing a single scud .

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 09:58 | 6169034 max2205
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About 2 mill in patriots to blow up a 25k bottle rocket that's 30 yr old

Low payout ratio.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:06 | 6169051 Max Steel
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Full PAC-3 system costs 7.8 BN$ .

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:10 | 6169056 HowdyDoody
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All paid for by the US tax payer. Israel has demanded that the tithe from the US be increased from $3 billion per year to $4.5 billion for the next ten years.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:27 | 6169090 Monetas
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You didn't mention the pay out to Muslim countries ?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:01 | 6169166 chunga
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Isn't it funny that a common enemy of just about all the players (ISIS) is running around with "Merikan weapons? Don't forget to align the Russians with the bad guy camp. After all, SCUD is a Soviet invention.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:43 | 6169303 Abitdodgie
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How the hell do you loose 2300 humvees with crows system on them to ISIS unless it was do on purpose.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:49 | 6169320 cheech_wizard
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Monetas does make a valid point here. To down arrow him without a rebuttal tells me you haven't done your own research.

Standard Disclaimer: Your google phrase of the day is "historical foreign aid to middle east"

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:49 | 6169476 HowdyDoody
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I guess Netanyahu was mistaken when he told Israeli settlers in the west bank not to worry because Israel controls the US?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrtuBas3Ipw

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:50 | 6171113 Counterpunch
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because it wasn't relevant?

but fwiw, I think most people on ZH critical of Israel would also be for ending the aid to Egypt and S.A.  Of course, as with Israel, a lot, even most ends up in the pockets of US weapons manufacturers, but it just means tax money needlessly going from the middle class to enrich the MIC to spread death and chaos in a way that, overall, makes the US less safe and less productive.

Fuck Israel.  But Fuck Salafist Arabia, too.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:11 | 6169058 Headbanger
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Maybe not.

Were these the old R-1 and R-11 or much newer R-17 SCUDs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:18 | 6169069 Max Steel
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9K72 Scud-B .

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:30 | 6169094 Headbanger
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Yep.. Looks like you're right

Separate war head.. 50m accuracy.. 

That ain't no bottle rocket..

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:45 | 6169128 WOAR
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I suppose the lives saved by that 2 mil in investment don't count. Neither does the infrastructure that was saved.

It is easier to destroy life than to save it - ergo, it only takes a 25k "bottle rocket" to kill people, but a 2 million dollar missile system to intercept it.

Low payout ratio my asshole.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:14 | 6169204 TheReplacement
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And just how much has SA (USA) spent in bombing Yemen, killing Yemenis, and thereby triggering the SCUD attack back on SA?

Low payout ratio indeed.  Say, why are you gaping?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:45 | 6170261 WOAR
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I suppose you're right. The patriot missile system was there to prevent blowback, and defend the Saudi's from retaliation.

In that case, it was still a sound investment. At least they thought ahead.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:28 | 6169427 booboo
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So there is a price to be put on a human life? If so, what is that price, Who determines it? How much is your life worth? Is your childs life worth more than mine? A jew more than an arab?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:41 | 6170252 WOAR
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I suppose you two are right. All human lives are equally worthless, so let's just kill 'em all and let God sort it out.

By that logic, it doesn't matter what people are worth - if you don't want to help people, then helping people is never worth it.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 01:18 | 6170934 booboo
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I'm just asking buzz, either human life is priceless or it has a determined price. You say it's worthless, roll with it.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 09:13 | 6171368 Winston Churchill
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Spoken like an oligarch.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 23:56 | 6173245 Ginsengbull
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Some people would argue that an equitable value for a given human life is it's lifetime earning capacity.

 

I, however, say that all the fiat dollars, rubles, yen and yuan combined, are not able to bring anyone back from the dead.

 

No deposit, no refund.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:53 | 6171116 Counterpunch
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those rockets killed 12 people in 10 years.  Its great for hasbara purposes, but in ten years they killed fewer people than IDF jets kill on a single run.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:15 | 6169208 Colonel Klink
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Not for the US/Israeli MIC!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:25 | 6169417 Martian Moon
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bottle rocket

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud

size of a bus, and can pack 1000kg of high explosive

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:16 | 6169067 Niall Of The Ni...
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Of course, Saudi Arabia will still expect Palestinian scum to be allowed to fire rockets into Israel with impunity. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:50 | 6169140 Infinite QE
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The Palis need nukes.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:27 | 6169252 BoredRoom
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Your mudslime savior Obowelmovement is working on that.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:11 | 6169371 e_goldstein
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 Most Jewish president evah.

 His words, not mine.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:56 | 6171121 Counterpunch
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funny how you frame it, leaving out the impunity with which Israel uses white phosphorus and flechette shells on schools and hospitals, killing far more people, usually as the aggressor, and with impunity.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:17 | 6169068 p00k1e
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Good.  Those Saudi’s rang our bell.     

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:24 | 6169085 Monetas
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Heads will roll .... at an increased rate ! LOL

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:33 | 6169097 crackpuff
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SCUDS and their propensity to hit nothing put the living fear of Allah in the hearts of men worlds away

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:42 | 6169117 Max Steel
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Nothing ? I wont say it .

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:33 | 6169099 ATM
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Iranians don't like the Sauds and vice versa.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:59 | 6169160 Berspankme
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I don't like the Saudis either but currently I don't own a scud

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:00 | 6169162 crackpuff
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Thanks for that. The mystery is solved

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:07 | 6169181 Anunnaki
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Thanks Captain Obvious

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:19 | 6169218 Monetas
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Glad we got that settled .... now, who of you .... is going to tell Obomba, Kerry and Hillary ? 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:33 | 6169102 swass
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They probably didn't need to even shoot them down. I'm sure this would have been about as accurate as North Korea's  dong missile.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:50 | 6169139 Max Steel
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did you read the news ? saudi claimed they have shot down SINGLE scud fired at them .

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 23:49 | 6173231 Ginsengbull
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That would depend on which type o dong they are shooting.

 

The most accurate is the longphatcock.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:35 | 6169106 swmnguy
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The Saudis are new at this, aren't they.  Any counter-attack against your attacking forces is "Terrorism."  Don't the Saudis know this yet?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:35 | 6169107 847328_3527
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They scudded some folks.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:45 | 6169126 Conchy Joe
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Recovery Summer Part 6

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:49 | 6169138 Infinite QE
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Wake me when there are nukes slamming into Tel Aviv.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 13:59 | 6169598 JuliaS
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You'll know when Obama stumbles in the middle of his speech because the teleprompter went blank all of the sudden.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:57 | 6171123 Counterpunch
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+10000000

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:53 | 6170736 Martian Moon
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Sad little man spewing hatred on the web

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 11:01 | 6171511 Infinite QE
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Martian Moon man. Spewing his christian zionist stupidity onto the www for all to witness. Dumb as a box of rocks.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:50 | 6169141 Bill of Rights
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Just one ? They can do better.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:54 | 6169147 studfinder
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IF a scud goes into Ghawar, fill your vehicle up.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:00 | 6169163 p00k1e
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Conserve energy by burning the bodies. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:04 | 6169173 Anunnaki
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Four biggest sources of evil on this planet

DC
London
Tel Aviv
Riyadh

First 3 are probably impossible to do anything about. But Riyadh is definitely ripe for a settling of scores

Go Houthis. Take it to them. Those fat, syphilitic goatsuckers will load up their planes and flee rather than stay and defend

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:22 | 6169231 Monetas
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Northern latitude, advanced countries .... quit your bikering .... and unite .... to rid the world .... of the Muslim filth !

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:25 | 6169245 Monetas
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All Muslim lands .... once cleansed of their Muslim filth .... will be turned into a giant UN protectorate .... administered by Israel ! LOL

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 14:22 | 6169642 where_is the_nuke
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Israel? It will cease to exist within a decade.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 05:02 | 6171128 Counterpunch
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well thats the dream of Zionism, anyway.

 

 

the trouble is that this isn't exactly a secret.

And most of the Diaspora prefers to live in the West as a privileged and disproportionately powerful minority.

 

Who can blame them?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 11:20 | 6171534 Zafod
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7th decade and counting

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:12 | 6169924 Freddie
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Like Hezbollah and the Syrians who are protecting innocent Syrian civilians including innocent Syrian Christians from murdering MIC/Saudi/Qatari/UAE's/Israel's ISIL/ISIS/NUSRA.

McCains's gang of ISIS.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:15 | 6170666 Anunnaki
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I Am an Assyrian American. My "folks" we're made extinct in their homelands of Northern Iraq and the Syrian panhandle thanks to the father of ISIS

Barack W. Peace Prize

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:09 | 6169189 Omega_Man
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the UN resolution to not sell arms to Yemen is criminal. I hope they sell Yemen lots of gear to fight these animals. 

If this UN blockade is a sign of things to come, it's the same as hancuffing you and then beating you - all for USA Zionist interests

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:32 | 6169272 NoWayJose
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The problem is that the US and other nations pumped billions in arms into Yemen when it was friendly. They already have enough captured stuff to fight a long time. And Iran will certainly find a way (camels?) to get more scuds into Yemen.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:12 | 6169195 Wild E Coyote
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major escalation becasue Saudi claim ONE scud was supposedly fired and was also supposedly blocked by their superior Patriotic missiles.

hmmmm.... sounds like a advertisement for patriot system. nothing more. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:15 | 6169205 Raul44
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Good, I want to see that medieval "country" leveled as well. Also for what they did to Syria among other things.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:19 | 6169223 q99x2
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Time to pick up your dress and run Bandar. The CIA is coming.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:23 | 6169236 SubjectivObject
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Ith ink a USless proxie fierd that ducS

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:24 | 6169241 HenryHall
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All to divert attention from the imminent invasion of Transnistria by Ukraine.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:56 | 6169492 HowdyDoody
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Russia recognizes Transnistria shortly afterwards?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:30 | 6169254 Joebloinvestor
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The US had an opportunity to stop this over 10 years ago and blew the shit out of it.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/11/usa.northkorea

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/12/11/us.missile.ship/index.h...

Ship, cargo and captain should have been scuttled.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 14:37 | 6169676 Joebloinvestor
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I don't know why the down votes, all I did is link to the truth.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 15:26 | 6169801 Max Steel
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rest will be happy if you blow and bomb the shit out of yourself and leave asa . world will be peaceful and hsppy without your mic shittery .

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 16:43 | 6169999 Joebloinvestor
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Tell me how you really feel.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:28 | 6169255 NoWayJose
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Gee??? Flood a small region with arms and missiles, then 'hope' your side stays in power. Yup! It doesn't always work out that way. The Saudis have just discovered their own version of Gaza missile attacks. And the missiles probably come from the same place. The Saudi will find out that no matter how many inhumane cluster bombs you drop, or how many ground assaults you make -- all you do is make a new crop of angry passionate killers who have lost a relative. The US should have learned this lesson in the tunnels of Vietnam. But history is doomed to repeat.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:31 | 6169262 Savyindallas
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A scud launched on Saudi Arabia? That should be good for another $5 billion in emergency aid sent to Israel. Maybe $10 billion. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:12 | 6169377 Monty Burns
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Many a true word spoken in jest....

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:35 | 6169284 22winmag
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At least someone is standing up to Washington's head-chopping, hand-chopping puppet state.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:46 | 6169316 Quinvarius
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Obama still thinks replacing the last vestiges of colonial rule with locals is a good idea.  He thinks global disorder is winning.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 11:58 | 6169337 I Write Code
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Bo-ring.  The SCUD blew up some sand?  And any air raid that only kills 48 people is a poor use of weaponry, if the claim isn't just agitprop in the first place.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:01 | 6169347 Joebloinvestor
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North Korea demonstratring how fucking big of an arms dealer it has become.

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/yemen-confirms-it-bought-scuds-from...

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 05:09 | 6171132 Counterpunch
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inevitable given the sanctions against them, which has done little but entrench that batshit crazy regime in power and kill hundreds of thousands of Koreans.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 12:11 | 6169373 Monty Burns
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Possible but unlikely. The population of Khamis Mushait is 80-90% of the same clans as the Houthis.

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