"Saudi oil facilities attacked" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 14 May 2019 9:47 p.m. PST |
Saudi Arabia said armed drones struck two of its oil pumping stations on Tuesday, two days after the sabotage of oil tankers near the United Arab Emirates, and the U.S. military said it was braced for "possibly imminent threats to U.S. forces in Iraq" from Iran-backed forces… link |
fantasque | 15 May 2019 1:37 a.m. PST |
Seems credible to me that it was the Yemeni Houthis who did this. They are at war with the Saudi's and have every reason to hit their enemy at their vulnerable points. This was a smart, low cost, low risk, minimal physical damage but high publicity way of doing it. Iran may have partly armed them but that's secondary. UK, US and others are arming the Saudis and those governments don't accept responsibility for everything they do, do they? Whether or not they should shoulder more responsibility is another question |
Mkultra99 | 15 May 2019 4:43 a.m. PST |
Cyberpunk shenanigans right there |
fantasque | 15 May 2019 6:50 a.m. PST |
Good article with more details link |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 15 May 2019 7:17 a.m. PST |
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Mr Jones | 15 May 2019 7:20 a.m. PST |
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Oberlindes Sol LIC | 15 May 2019 11:12 a.m. PST |
Clever as hell. Way better than sending a suicide bomber into a market or a mosque. |
Thresher01 | 15 May 2019 6:20 p.m. PST |
An interesting development, with even more to come in the coming days and weeks I suspect, given ALL non-essential US embassy personnel have been ordered out of Iraq. |
fantasque | 16 May 2019 8:11 a.m. PST |
Have the Houthi's used suicide bombers? I am not aware of that happening. |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 20 May 2019 10:41 p.m. PST |
@fantasque The first two of these articles specify Houthi suicide bombers. I haven't read the others sufficiently to find out if they identified the bombers. link link link link link link |
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