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Saudi Arabia Bombs Second Yemeni Wedding In A Week - At Least 23 Dead

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Saudi Arabia, the recently crowned head of a UN human rights panel and close U.S. government ally, has now bombed two wedding parties in Yemen in just over a week. Yes, you read that right.

The New York Times reports:

SANA, Yemen — Airstrikes by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia hit a house south of the capital on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people who were attending a wedding party, said witnesses and a local medical worker.

 

The attack was the second airstrike on a wedding in Yemen in a little over a week, and it added to growing criticism over the coalition’s air campaign, which has killed more than 1,100 civilians over the past six months, according to the United Nations.

 

On Sept. 28, coalition warplanes bombed wedding tents on the Yemen’s Red Sea coast, killing at least 70 people.

 

Saudi Arabia launched a military offensive in March against rebels known as the Houthis after they drove the Saudi-backed government from power. As war has spread throughout the country, more than 2,355 civilians have been killed — the majority of them in coalition airstrikes, human rights workers say.

Interestingly, this indiscriminate murdering of civilians is finally starting to get some attention in Washington D.C. We learn from Al-Monitor that:

“I fear that our failure to strongly advocate diplomacy in Yemen over the past two years, coupled with our failure to urge restraint in the face of the crisis last spring, may put the viability of this critical [US-Saudi] partnership at risk,” said Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. “The Leahy Law prohibits US security assistance — and many forms of defense cooperation — with forces that have engaged in gross violations of human rights. If reports are accurate, the Saudi indiscriminate targeting in the air campaign and an overly broad naval blockade could well constitute such violations.”

 

“Providing additional arms to Saudi Arabia would effectively give a green light to an ongoing military campaign that continues to cause immense suffering in Yemen,” said Scott Paul, senior humanitarian policy adviser for Oxfam America. “More than six months after airstrikes began, the Saudi-led coalition has not demonstrated a willingness to agree to engage meaningfully in a political process. With more than four out of every five Yemenis in need of some kind of aid to survive, the US must make crystal clear its desire to see an immediate cease-fire. Selling weapons to Saudi Arabia totally undermines that message.”

So how do those who support arming the Saudis defend their position? Incredibly, this is how:

Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., declined to discuss the conversations taking place inside the committee. He did appear, however, to support the sale going through, pointing out that precision-guided munitions could lead to fewer deaths than Saudi reliance on so-called dumb bombs, echoing an argument State Department officials have also been making.

Precision-guided munitions…like the ones recently used by the U.S. military to destroy a Doctors Without Borders hospital? Those kinds of munitions?

The key question now for anyone who cares about the Middle East, is how the Saudis will pivot in the face of increased criticism. Will they pull back, or will they become even more barbaric and aggressive militarily? My guess is the latter.

The reason I come to this conclusion is the fact that the nation’s leadership transition earlier this year resulted in even more authoritarian and reckless rulers. In fact, the guy currently seen as pulling the strings is an inexperienced prince who is actually known as “Reckless” in the Kingdom. See:

New Saudi King Unveils Internal Power Shake-up in Desperate Pivot Toward Increased Authoritarianism

Regime Change is Coming – Saudi Prince Calls for Coup to Remove King

Additionally, we recently learned the following from Al-Monitor:

Prince Sultan bin Khalid Al-Faisal, a grandson of the late Saudi King Faisal and a nephew of the kingdom’s recently deceased longtime foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, told an audience on Capitol Hill that Saudi Arabia is prepared to lead the Middle East against a host of threats, including “increasing Iranian incursion into other states’ affairs” and the turmoil that has followed the so-called Arab Spring.

 

Saudi bombing of Yemen, which began in March after the Houthis seized control of the capital, Sanaa, and marched south has aroused widespread criticism because of the humanitarian crisis it has caused in one of the world’s poorest states.

 

However, Sultan, who had extensive training in the United States, including in the US Navy SEAL program, and led development of the Saudi navy’s special forces, said the Saudi role in regional conflicts “is very much misunderstood by many in the international community and some of our Muslim brothers.” Situated “in a region of turmoil, revolutions and occupation … Saudi Arabia has to survive and maintain a stable and viable government,” Sultan said. “We do not seek to become an expansionist country … export revolutionary ideas [or] project power through far-off lands.”

Wait, Saudis train in the Navy Seals program? You learn something new every day I suppose.

With the United States and other Western powers disengaging from Middle Eastern conflicts, “We are going to have to take care of ourselves,” Sultan said. Speaking fluent English, Sultan said with emphasis, “We are moving the armed forces to a level needed today to lead — lead — the Middle East.”

 

In recent years in part because of concerns about Iran, Saudi Arabia has gone on a weapons buying binge. The kingdom ordered about $65 billion worth last year — making it the world’s top arms importer — and is in the middle of the largest US arms deal in history — $60 million in new fighter jets and helicopters. The Saudis are also buying more US Patriot missile batteries.

Brace yourselves. If you think the Middle East is in turmoil now, based on Saudi behavior, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

 

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Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:06 | 6658136 JustObserving
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How many Wedding Parties has the Nobel Prize Winner double-tapped?  He always gets a free pass.  So will the Saudis.

It is only the insane "mass-murderer" Putin you should be wary of.  So sayeth the free and fair media of the West

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:06 | 6658148 TongueStun
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Bush's fault, he's an oilman....

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:11 | 6658167 DeadFred
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It's their fault, if they stpped having weddings...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:14 | 6658182 NoDebt
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"Bombing one wedding party is a tragedy.  Bombing a thousand wedding parties is a statistic."

Everyone will be numbed-out on this shortly.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:25 | 6658218 Number 156
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He's there to make sure that human rights are violated at the agreed upon consistency.
.. hes doing a great job too.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:39 | 6658259 AlaricBalth
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Presenting the newly elected Chair of the UN Human Rights Council

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2014/15 - SAUDI ARABIA

The government severely restricted freedoms of expression, association and assembly, and cracked down on dissent, arresting and imprisoning critics, including human rights defenders. Many received unfair trials before courts that failed to respect due process, including a special anti-terrorism court that handed down death sentences. New legislation effectively equated criticism of the government and other peaceful activities with terrorism. The authorities clamped down on online activism and intimidated activists and family members who reported human rights violations. Discrimination against the Shi’a minority remained entrenched; some Shi’a activists were sentenced to death and scores received lengthy prison terms. Torture of detainees was reportedly common; courts convicted defendants on the basis of torture-tainted “confessions” and sentenced others to flogging. Women faced discrimination in law and practice, and were inadequately protected against sexual and other violence despite a new law criminalizing domestic violence. The authorities detained and summarily expelled thousands of foreign migrants, returning some to countries where they were at risk of serious human rights abuses. The authorities made extensive use of the death penalty and carried out dozens of public executions.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/saudi-...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:18 | 6658467 SoilMyselfRotten
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It's Preventative Maintenance. If you stop the wedding, you stop little Yemeni offspring, problem solved.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:46 | 6658310 greenskeeper carl
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@ no debt, everyone already is numbed out on it. No one cares. I'm sure they used US made weapons that are bought with US taxpayer dollars that are given to them in military aid every year

And Tyler- you gotta go back to captioning these headlines as "US ally Saudi Arabia bombs another...."
Really drives the point home.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:30 | 6658510 Lostinfortwalton
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Nah, the Saudis pay top dollar for our aircraft; prolly the only one that do. Recently bought a large group of F-15Es, the two-seat attack model. Had enough brains not to line-up for the F-35 but what a horrible use of their air force.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:34 | 6658522 Lostinfortwalton
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Ten (?) years of war and death. 'Wounded Warrior' spots that show horrible impact on the wounded and their families and that doesn't even begin to describe what the women and children in the war zone go through. Will it ever end?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:15 | 6658183 yrad
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Brown people bombing brown people? This aggression will not stand!

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:23 | 6658209 invest3
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0bomber takes out Yemen wedding, blames Saudis, just before OPEC prices their oil in RMB.  Of course there's no correlation.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:02 | 6659161 Vincent.Vega
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> It is only the insane "mass-murderer" Putin you should be wary of.  So sayeth the free and fair media of the West

It's asways been like this: Jews keep blaming Stalin for their own crimes.

 

One thing people are still not getting: Saudis are Jews and the Arab population of Saudi Arabia are their slaves. BTW, how is it different from the goyim American population who have always been slaves to American (read, AmeriCohen) Jewish ZOG elites -- i.e. not a to some random Jewish Joe Shmoe who has no idea either, but to Kogans/Cohens and Levittes. And how many atrocities against goyim nations have Kogans and Levittes been getting away with?

We are not dealing with abstract "Saudis" or "US", we are dealing with Jewish tyrants residing within both countries and using both as their tools. Unfortunately, frustrated masses prefer to blame everything on US instead of understanding the big picture.

 

The Jewish roots of the Saudi Royal Family: https://www.facebook.com/notes/hidden-truth/the-jewish-roots-of-the-saud...

The House of Saud refers to the royal family of Saudi Arabia. While the modern nation of Saudi Arabia was established in 1932, the House of Saud has been around for much longer. Prior to Ibn Saud, this family ruled the Nejd and often came into conflict with the Ottoman Empire and the Rashidis. The House of Saud is also linked with Wahhabism through the marriage of the son of Muhammad ibn Saud with the daughter of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab in 1744.

 

The history of the House of Saud has been marked by a desire to unify the Arabian Peninsula and to spread a more pure and simple view of Islam embodied by Wahhabism. As such, the House of Saud has gone through three phases: the First Saudi State, the Second Saudi State, and the modern nation of Saudi Arabia.

 

It should be noted that Saudi Arabia is the only country on Earth named after a family: the adjective "Saudi" indicates something belonging to the House of Saud.

To know more about 'House of Saud' click the link below:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/House-of-Saud

 

Now come to the main matter. THE SAUDI DYNASTY: FROM WHERE IS IT? AND WHO IS THE REAL ANCESTOR OF THIS FAMILY?

 

This is Research and Presentation of MOHAMMAD SAKHER who was ordered killed by the Saudi Regime for the following findings:

  1. Are the Saudi Family members belonging to the Tribe of ANZA BEN WA'EL as they allege to be?
  2. Is Islam their actual religion?
  3. Are they of an ARAB ORIGIN at all?

[...]

 

It's worthwhile repeating the above questions again:

  1. Are the Saudi Family members belonging to the Tribe of ANZA BEN WA'EL as they allege to be?
  2. Is Islam their actual religion?
  3. Are they of an ARAB ORIGIN at all?

 

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:07 | 6658149 eri
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Should anyone here present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:08 | 6658153 Oldballplayer
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Is every gathering of more than three people a freakin' wedding over there?  They do more weddings than Las Vegas.  Maybe its because they can marry more than one wife. 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:30 | 6658508 cougar_w
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I doubt these are actually "wedding parties" at all. That's just the spin phase in the war of words.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:45 | 6659535 StychoKiller
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If I were in charge in Yemen, I would place a bunch of empty tents wherever I wanted the Suadis to drop their bombz.  Throw some burkas over some dogz and give them free run of the tents.  Better to lose a few tents and dogs than real people.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:36 | 6658160 Kina
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Saudis are truly the world's sick fucks.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:10 | 6658164 YouSerious
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And at the end of the day not a single fuck was given

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:19 | 6658191 chubbar
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Sounds to me like the whole wedding party got fucked.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:59 | 6658941 svayambhu108
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Literally, first I thought you lack empathy

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:10 | 6658165 YouSerious
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And at the end of the day not a single fuck was given

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:15 | 6658168 nnnnnn
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it is saudi arabias human right to bomb this wedding

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:11 | 6658170 Panic Mode
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Maybe that's their way of presenting weddign gift. We are talking about Saudi. Right?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:11 | 6658172 grunk
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Maybe it was a gay wedding.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:21 | 6658200 Monetas
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If it was a gay wedding .... the whole wedding party .... would have been thrown off a tall building !

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:49 | 6658329 Crocodile
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Leave Troll with the sick AVATAR - looks Roman Catholic - Shun this shill.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:13 | 6658179 22winmag
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Steroid-addled cops in America kill far more innocents than all the Saudi airstrikes put together.

 

Where is the outrage?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:48 | 6658316 Crocodile
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Another TROLL; they appear regulalrly on issues dealing with Russia, China and Middle-east...shun them all or play into their scam.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:19 | 6658194 Monetas
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1400 dead at Hajj stampede .... no Saudi dead .... just guest worshippers ?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:36 | 6658267 SpanishGoop
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Saudies use the VIP route.

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:21 | 6658197 gmak
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Why the surprise?  The USA is the dread empire. WHere is the generation that openly rebelled and demonstrated against the war in Vietnam? Old and dying. Where is the successor generation who will stand up to this?  Hunched over icrap phones, texting while watching NFL footbal and talent shows.

 

In the end, the general population will be used as some kind of cannon fodder to open new frontiers, possibly Mars. After this, the elite will lgo elsewhere (space stations?, Mars? who knows?) and use the remaining population and resources here to provide what they need. Maybe even robots will provide the food cultivation in areas of the world that have been 'liberated' from the human population.

 

Coming soon to a future generation. (Or have I just been reading too much science fiction lately?)

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:33 | 6658253 Oldballplayer
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Actually most of the douches that are running our country (not the elected douches, but the people in charge) ARE the folks who protested the war in Viet Nam.  They are only in their late 60's.   

Go to any government office and look at the old hippies who have wrinkles around their mouth from sucking from the teat of the beast.

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:45 | 6658305 Crocodile
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"Where is the generation that openly rebelled and demonstrated against the war in Vietnam?" - end

 

They are the ones running the show and before that, the "greatest generation" taught that generation; well not much when it came to moral values.  So much for greatness.

 

This is a moral battle with the the shadow being played out in surreal life.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:21 | 6658201 Thoreau
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GO RUSSIA!

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:30 | 6658242 HoserF16
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< America Bombs Hospitals

< Saudi's Bomb Weddings

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:37 | 6658263 SpanishGoop
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Step 1: don't give your enemy a chance to procreate.



Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:41 | 6658285 I am a Man I am...
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"lead" means kill some folks

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:41 | 6658286 JimmyRainbow
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already stated elsewhere that the stampede at the hadj was triggered to harm/abduct some iranian hezbollah quds guys.

isnt it funny that all the freedom fighters down there meet once a year in saudi happyland?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:44 | 6658293 williambanzai7
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The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
For he heard the loud bassoon

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658364 sudzee
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The US applauds the Saudi's deliberate slaughter of Yemeni civilians in order to terrorize the population into submission. 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:08 | 6658408 Jorgen
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duplicate

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:17 | 6658463 Max Steel
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firing few kalibrs cruise missiles up their asses will do it .

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:06 | 6658417 Jorgen
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If this is true, KSA can expect an 'asymmetric' response from Iran.

Also:

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:14 | 6658450 Bunga Bunga
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If the Russians did it, it would be the hell in the White House. But the Saudis ....

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:21 | 6658476 headhunt
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Was this a moderate terrorist wedding or a plain old terrorist wedding?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:23 | 6658485 yogibear
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American arms. Our Nobel prize winner.

Nobel prize.....

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite.

Blow shit up prize.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:52 | 6658592 Lumberjack
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It will be kids at a petting zoo next.../s

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:55 | 6658921 10mm
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That's one crossed eyed fuck up looking sheik.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:06 | 6658970 ptoemmes
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Does the Leahy Law apply to the USA?  Of course not.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:09 | 6658981 Lex_Luthor
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I wonder which idiot still gets wed these days in Yemen...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:59 | 6659592 nerfCash
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Situated “in a region of turmoil, revolutions and occupation … Saudi Arabia has to survive and maintain a stable and viable government,” Sultan said.

Gee, maybe if Israel had oil, then everyone would leave them alone too? 

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