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In Major Escalation, Yemen Rebels Fire Scud Missile Into Saudi Arabia
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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You wake me up for 1 fucking scud!
Fuck you.
It smells like victory ;-)
Any dead Saudi Wahhabi is a definite plus.
Interesting read here and possibly related to this discussion.....
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/06/06/new-eastern-outlook-yemen-practi...
Gordon Duff is a unique blend of truth, pissible truth, and clear horseshit. I'll admit to being puzzled by his entire operation.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/possible-tactical-nuclear-strike-neutron-bo...
Tough to hide the radiation sig from a neutron bomb - the Chinese, Russians, and others would have noticed. They said nothing, really?
If so, it was quite possibly the Israelis, who certainly have been involved in the bombings. A couple of the F16s shot down look like models the Saudis, again, purportedly, don't have.
Of course, using Yemen as a testing ground for the AGM-114N or something newer would make some sense. Who knows, but in any event, an ugly harbinger of things to come in Syria, then on to Lebanon {again} and Iran.
These old SCUD missiles should easily be shot down. The Ukrainian rebels in Donetsk have shot down a number of Ukrainian Army surface to suface missiles of the old Soviet type. They have done this with mobile anti aricraft missile systems that are part of Russian export models. Truck mounted and with their own radar, they can track and knock down SCUD types at medium range. These are not the Russian large long range missiles of the S-300-S400 type, nor do I think it is a TOR M2 type. But if the rebels do indeed have TOR M2's, then the Ukrainian Airforce best stay on the ground!
I would think for sure the Saudis have US Patriot Missiles, the kind that failed to hit one single SCUD during the first Gulf War, though the military and US Media claimed to have hit over a dozen SCUDs, after the war a study found NO HITS were made. Patriot has since been fully modernized, so should be able to protect Saudi targets.
But you gotta hand it to Yemen, at least they are trying to fuck up those Saudi cunts!
Hitting a missile with a missile is never easy, and generally hideously expensive, the defensive technology is easily 100x more expensive, maybe 1000x or 10000x, and it still requires two or more defensive shots to have much of a chance at a hit, and of course requires multiple defensive batteries because you don't know where the shots will come from or what they will aim at.
In a real war the defense would quickly run out of munitions, or be overwhelmed by an active attack even while munitions were availble.
yup ehat you said is right write code but it is true mostly for american air defense systems and its export model not for russn air defence systems nor their batteries or missiles
Pretty much. The smart move then would be to mass produce cheap dumb missiles and launch them continuously at the defenders. The damage done to the other side is the bank accounts. That's all that really matters, isn't it?
Yes. But they're fun to launch.
Off Topic, Just for kicks when I was up late last night I went to google earth and decided to look at the disputed islands in the South China Sea. The Spratleys. Wouldn't you know it, the very first random island I zoomed in on I saw a large Chinese Warhip just off shore and 2 big dredges just begining to dedge up a sand land platform on a coral reef! Then I looked and found another with a fleet of ships and dredges just beginning work. I forgot to check the dates. The Chinese are working very close to others borders!
Sounds like something the US would do. How dare they?
The planned destructiuon of the world has begun. Explons why the elite have bunkers.
If the big 0 got on TV tomorrow and said WW3 is here and we're in it would anyone actually be surprised? More importantly would anyone care and would they just go back to staring at pictures of Caitlyn?
Let's hope the Saudi spring really gets going one day and the beheaders become the beheaded.
Patroit missiles don't work as claimed...cash cow milking in progress.
....Oh I beg to differ, the patriot has an exemplary record of knocking Gaza launched terror weapons of mass distraction out of the sky there are countless videos clearly showing the intercept of inbound objects; in fact the only evidence that the Gazan terror rockets existed was the expended debris of the detonated patriot, what more can you ask of a fine weapon system like this - it literally blew the Gazan rockets out of existence most of the time.........
..... much like the IDF has been trying to do to those terrorists trying to steal israhells air that's why they're behind the genocidal wall of apparthied ..that's why.... the IDF should model itself after the Patriot missile system........ {sarc}n
The global Muslim community is of course sending volunteers and money to protect the Saudi "defenders" of Islam, right?
Scuds. Aren't these the same crappy missles Sadam Hussein used that he got on sale at Walmart ?
Saleh= CIA mossad stooge
Syria is all about munitions sales.
Prediction Israel sells Saudis nukes.
This is getting to be a complicated mess.
Whose idea was this anyway?
"USA" is usually printed on the hardware. Go figure. "We don't make the world safe, we make things that make the world safer." Yep.
If you like your patriot missile system, you can keep your patriot missile system.
I highly approve. Time to get Mecca and Medina out of the hands of the Wahabis, and the Yemenis have as much right as anyone else to try.
Finally, something that doesn't have USA stamped all over it.
Modern fission weapons being tested in Yemen.The excuse is they're perfect for use on third world countries.Thank the U.S Government and Israel.Here's the proof;
http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/02/yemen-practical-nuclear-survival/
Gordon Duff?
he may be right sometimes, but I wouldnt rely on him for a report on current local weather.
Whether or not the SCUD was a dud or a thud is not Important
It's the thought that counts
I'm supporting the good guys in the middle east!!! yay, the good guys!!, whoever you may be.
During a particular season...college footbal-basketball-NBA-NFL etc. we have a chance to follow a particular team or when the playoffs come we just pick a team and go with it. In the case of the middle east and the team sponsors CIA there are so many new teams taking the spotlite every other week it hard to keep track who is who. At this time my favorites are the houthis and Shia. I'm hoping Saudi Arabia falls in the final and actually I'm wishing Assad will manage to hang into the round of 8...or 10 whatever.
she's a total scud!
she's a total scud!
All this bollock about "we hit militants" means they bombed civilian areas, its no different to Vietnam when the Marines would Mai Lai a village, women, kids and all. Yemen is no different so woulldn't surprise me at all if something very nasty goes off in the centre of Riyadh very shortly. Have we learned nothing in 50 years ??
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More importantly, did they hity anything?
World war is ON
Weapons market is Hot