[ May 3, 2024 ]
Democrats love war, which is why the support the worst villains on the world stage.
Saudi TV: Yemen rebel attack on airport sets plane on fire
By Isabel Debre, AP, February 11, 2021:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia with bomb-laden drones, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom’s state television reported. The attack threatened to escalate Yemen’s grinding war.
Story continues below advertisementNo one was hurt in the assault, but the damaged passenger plane at Abha airport served as a powerful reminder of the danger that Houthi rebels pose to Saudi Arabia, which nearly six years ago launched a bombing campaign that has devastated the Arab world’s poorest country.
The Iran-aligned Houthis soon claimed responsibility for the assault, with military spokesman Yehia Sarea stressing that the Houthis consider Abha airport to be a military, not civilian, target.
“This targeting comes in response to the continued aerial bombardment and the brutal siege of our country,” Sarea said, adding the group attacked with four bomb-laden drones.
Col. Turki al-Maliki, the spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen, said forces earlier intercepted and destroyed two drones launched by Houthis toward the country’s south. He condemned the assault as a “systematic and deliberate attempt to target civilians.”
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Photographs later aired by Saudi state television showed the aircraft, a 3-year-old Airbus A320 flown by low-cost carrier FlyADeal. It appeared the drone had punched a hole through its fuselage, with scorch marks on the metal. An anchor on state television said there were no injuries on the ground from the fire. FlyADeal did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Since 2015, the Houthis battling the Saudi-led military coalition have targeted international airports, along with military installations and critical oil infrastructure, within Saudi Arabia. The Houthis repeatedly have used drones against Saudi Arabia, including crashing them into the kingdom’s Patriot missile batteries, most recently on Sunday when the coalition said it intercepted five “booby-trapped” drones. Those attacks, often striking near the southern cities of Abha and Jizan, have wounded dozens and killed at least one person in recent years.
As recently as late January, U.S. forces stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh trained Saudi troops on how to counter the threat posed by drones, which can fly low to the ground, evade radar and detonate against targets in the kingdom.
In November 2017, the Houthis even reached Riyadh’s international airport, deep inside the kingdom. No one was hurt in the attack, which marked the first time that a Houthi missile had come so close to a heavily populated center. Riyadh is around 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) north of the border with Yemen.
ADVERTISEMENTSaudi officials have blamed Iran for providing ballistic missiles to the Houthis used in such attacks against the kingdom. Tehran denies arming to the Houthis, despite evidence to the contrary.
The attack late Wednesday afternoon reportedly was the first to impact a civilian aircraft at the facility. Flight-tracking websites showed delayed and canceled flights scheduled to either take off or land at the airport. Flights at Abha airport resumed some time after the attack.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia after the strike. He repeated U.S. assurances that America intends to help Saudi Arabia increase its ability to defend itself.
“Houthi leaders will find themselves sorely mistaken if they think this administration is going to let up the pressure. … They will come under significant pressure.” He said the U.S. would have more to say about that in coming days.
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki condemned the attack, saying the Houthis “continually demonstrate a desire to prolong the war.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: “We’re very alarmed by the reports of drone attacks by the Houthis on the Abha Airport in Saudi Arabia, and we, of course, condemn all attacks that target civilians or civilian infrastructure.”
In recent weeks, the Houthis have accelerated their push to wrest control of Yemen’s oil-rich government stronghold of Marib and escalated their cross-border attacks on the kingdom. On Tuesday, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said he was “extremely concerned” about hostilities in Marib, especially at a time of “renewed diplomatic momentum.”
On Wednesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with the new U.S. special envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking, Saudi state-run media reported, to discuss efforts to reach a political solution to the conflict.
Yemen’s war started in 2014, when the rebels seized the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, intervened months later to dislodge the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government. The war has killed some 130,000 people and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
President Joe Biden has turned a spotlight on the brutal conflict, declaring last week that the United States would end its support of the Saudi-led military offensive, including “relevant” arms sales. The administration has also moved to lift a terrorist designation against the Houthis, citing the need to mitigate Yemen’s humanitarian crisis.
But Biden stressed that the U.S. would continue to help Saudi Arabia defend itself against outside attacks, as part of maintaining key security, counterterrorism and military ties with the kingdom, a strategic partner and global oil giant.
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37 Comments
3 years ago
Crazy Joe Biden is the most treasonous, traitorous fake illegitimate “president” ever not elected!
3 years ago
Way to go joe
3 years ago
Talk about loving war as a trait of these Socialist… you are 100% correct. Check this out…. and read about all the wars connected with Hitler and the Nazis… As a matter of fact it took WWII to take them down.
3 years ago
Reply to
V.V.
Alas, the Second World War did not help, socialism turned out to be too ramified. And all branches of socialism have common features. All socialists fight Zioism and they are always ready to pave the way for true Muslims
3 years ago
Reply to
Nelly
All socialists fight Zionism and they are always ready to pave the way for true Muslims
Nelly, may I suggest this comment betrays a stunning ignorance of the history of Zionism, going back to its early days as a movement in Europe.
You may know the name David Ben-Gurion, who joined a Socialist-Zionist organization in Poland well before emigrating to the Holy Land as a young man.
Your view is part of what I see as the endemic tendency on this site for the most simplistic and binary explanations of complex phenomena.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Oh g-d, I said nothing about the Zionists( and Zionism), but I mentioned the fighters against Zionism. This is far from the same. Today’s fighters against Zionism do not call themselves openly anti-Semites they are not against Jews like George Soros, for example. They are against the Jews defending the right of the State of Israel to exist.
3 years ago
Reply to
Nelly
I said nothing about the Zionists( and Zionism), but I mentioned the fighters against Zionism.
Oh another tedious one, I see. You clearly spoke as though Zionism and socialism were somehow inherently incompatible. Allow me to remind you what you said:
All socialists fight Zionism…
Rather succinctly, but convincingly, I would say, I gave the lie to your pronouncement by citing a high profile Zionist who was a socialist. By no means did all socialists “fight Zionism”- some were very much part of both persuasions. Indeed, Ben-Gurion was only one example of many socialist Zionists.
A scintilla of intellectual integrity would require at very least to acknowledge that you misspoke
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Ben-Gurion was only one example of many socialist Zionists.
One such example is Golda Meir.
3 years ago
Reply to
Nelly
One such example is Golda Meir.
Indeed. And I’m quite certain that Golda would have been appalled (actually, probably just more scornful) at the idea that all socialists fight Zionism!
But I will congratulate you on one aspect of how you present here. Despite harsh criticism of your position, and my finding you a bit “tedious”, you responded civilly- almost refreshing on this site. So you definitely are not a part of the “goon squad” on this board. In fact, I even see the outline of some areas of agreement between us.
So best wishes to you, with hopes for your continued refinement of your commentary! :>)
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Thank you for your kind words
As for Zionism, as such, it is not stuck at the level of Golda Meir and Ben Gurion, Today there are few Zionist Jews who would agree with the statements of Golda Meir.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
A scintilla of intellectual integrity would require at very least to acknowledge that you misspoke
Well, yes and no, but mostly yes. oh excuse me, I will repeat myself, I was not going to analyze Zionism. I was not going to go out to the intellectual level of the conversation. I was referring to the commonality of the ideas of a certain Karl Mrax and a certain Adolf Hitler. For both, socialism was global in nature and both believed that the Jews should disappear .
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
The history of the development of Zionism was not touched upon by me. I can say that this idea has greatly refolded since it was created. But holy belief of modern fighters against Zionism that the Zionists want to seize domination over the world has passed to them by inheritance from the good old anti-Semites, such as Adolf Hitler, whom they condemn out loud. Unlike Hitler, today’s fighters against Zionism verbally love us but in fact they wish us to die , at least as a nation . .But perhaps I agree with you about something they would have liked Ben Gurion’s ideas but at the same time, they would have condemned him for standing by Israel’s independence in the Arab-Israeli war.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
David Ben-Gurion (spit) also wouldn’t allow Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s body to be buried in Israel. Despite the fact Jabotinsky was organizing Jewish self-defense forces in Yerushalem before the 1929 muslum pogrom against Jews.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
I hate left-wing Jews. Perhaps I would prefer an open anti-Semite to a left Jew, all the same, open enemies are more pleasant than traitors. As for Ben Gurion’s Zionism , in any case, I never share his opinion I find his opinion a dead end but not with regard to his positions on Israel’s independence
3 years ago
Reply to
Nelly
I hate left-wing Jews.
Nelly, I will go out on a limb and assume you are Jewish (I am not, btw). May I suggest that hatred, particularly toward fellow Jews, is not a Jewish value.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Well you are right. I am Jewish. … Of course, this is not a Jewish value at all – hatred of fellows.But for Jews, as well as for most people and, of course for me , nationality is not the main scale by which I evaluate people . I am way past guys like ,E.G, Soros and this awful Jonathan Greenblatt(with his loyalty to Obama and his double standards). I don’t see them as my fellows .
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Hmmmmm, the Judean civil war resulted in the crucifixion of some 800 Pharisees:
https://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Jannaeus-Hasmonean-King-and-High-Priest/6000000012136439392
3 years ago
Reply to
V.V.
Be VERY CAREFUL when using Wikipedia as a source. Wikipedia itself publishes the material within might be erroneous!
3 years ago
Reply to
Laddyboy
I know most of the time I go to the library to find my information but I cannot post the library on here… LOL. So sometimes I have to find internet sites to give that information. But I do hear what you are saying and thank you.
3 years ago
Tehran denies arming to the Houthis …
Quite right. Must be the Joos, dontcha think?
3 years ago
Hitler admired the prophet Muhamet
3 years ago
Reply to
Nelly
I don’t think Hitler (spit) ever expressed admiration for Mohamhead himself but he did express admiration for islam, in private, to one of his closest confidantes Albert Speer while deprecating Christianity.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
You are right, literally Hitler expressed admiration for Islam. But Islam and the prophet Muhamet are inseparable.
3 years ago
Reply to
Nelly
True enough. Some people say Albert Speer should’ve faced the hangman’s noose too.
3 years ago
Muslums killing muslums? What’s not to like? It’s not like there’s ANY non-muslims left in Yemen anymore — not after the muslum scum rounded up the last hundred Jews, seized their properties and lands and told them to leave the country.
3 years ago
They are just like the obiden administration that’s why he dropped them from the terrorist list!!!!!
3 years ago
Notice AP calls terrorists “rebels”
3 years ago
Biden a man without a plan. First he takes our new status oil exporter and reverses it to Oil Importer. He prefers to make us dependent upon the Theocracies, autocratic regimes, and Russia. So, in our new weakened oil position he gets sassy with a strategic key oil producer that held the US hostage in 1973 with an Oil Embargo because it didn’t like our foreign policy. Biden the Justin Trudeau of the US is turning out to be “I never saw a terrorist I didn’t like”. He’s going for broke with Iran and Nukes and now the Houtis who are terrorists but he thinks if we don’t call them that name they’ll come around. You know what Biden, you’re an idiot or have an Agenda probably Iran.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack
Biden a man without a plan.
Jack, to have plan, you first have to have a clue.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
That little scratch?! That plane will fly just fine. All Aboard!!
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack
Biden suffers from senile dementia, so he cannot be suspected of planning. In fact, he came to continue Obama’s course of transforming America. As for foreign policy, as such, it is also a continuation of Obama’s course. . Was Baiden ever able to plan anything? No, because he is a typical American politician. He came into politics for the sake of profit, for this one does not need to be smart.
3 years ago
biden says; I am going to stop helping Syria and help the H______s attackers from the North. BUT, I am going to help Syria.
W H AAAAAAAA TTTTTTTTT???
3 years ago
This makes King Bidet a sponsors of terrorism.
3 years ago
We will see alot more of things like this in the near future –
