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Saudis Shoot Down Missiles, Drones as Middle East Tensions Flare

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted ballistic missiles and shot down drones sent from Yemen, in the latest attack by pro-Iranian rebels that showed improved military capabilities more than three years into the conflict.

One missile was intercepted over Riyadh, with loud blasts heard in the night sky above the Saudi capital on Wednesday. Two other missiles were intercepted over the southern areas of Jazan and Najran, authorities said. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said it also downed a drone targeting an airport in the southwestern province of Abha and another in Jazan.

The missiles were fired just hours after President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. would strike Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces are backed by Russia and Iran, over a suspected chemical weapons attack. The State Department said the Houthi attacks on Saudi population centers were “fueled by the Iranian regime’s dangerous proliferation of weapons and destabilizing activities in the region.”

“It’s hard to see the timing of the latest Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia as purely coincidental,” said Hani Sabra, founder of Advisory, a New York-based consultancy. The attack is probably an Iranian message to embarrass Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is wrapping up a foreign tour to world capitals and has repeatedly accused Iran of seeking to destabilize the kingdom, he said.

The Houthis have been aiming their ballistic missiles at major Saudi cities and targets more regularly in the past few months than any other period in the three-year war. The kingdom and its allies accuse Iran of arming the Houthis, a charge Tehran denies.

Iranian Message?

“The Houthis have indeed been stepping up their attacks on their northern neighbor, but with regional tension sharply escalating, particularly as a result of recent Syria-related developments, Iran, through the Houthis, probably wanted to send Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a message,” Sabra said.

A missile fired in December was aimed at the main royal palace during a cabinet session headed by King Salman. Last month, Saudi defenses intercepted seven ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh and other cities by the Houthis, the biggest such barrage since the war began in March 2015.

The Houthis, who have repeatedly targeted the kingdom in retaliation for its offensive inside Yemen, said Wednesday’s attack on Riyadh was directed at the defense ministry.

Increasing Risks

“The Houthis’ capabilities have improved — with outside assistance — over the course of the conflict, and it is reasonable to expect that they will continue to do so for the duration of the conflict,” said Allison Wood, an analyst with Control Risks. And while Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s best defense systems, the risk of a missile or a drone hitting targets “at some point” will increase with more regular attacks, he said.

Saudi Arabia and its allies have been able to recover areas in southern Yemen from the Houthis, but the rebels still control the capital Sana’a and territories in the north.

The conflict has caused a humanitarian disaster with thousands of civilian deaths, disease, hunger and displacement.

bloomberg.com

151 Comments on "Saudis Shoot Down Missiles, Drones as Middle East Tensions Flare"

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:32 pm

Clogg Russia is all talk no action. People who threaten never do anything. And stop spamming this site with Alex jones. You nut job..Get some medical help! Do it for your families sake at least.

Boat on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:33 pm

Clog

Let’s see what the political Mastermind Putin does now. It appears his claimed victory in Syria might have problems.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:39 pm

Wow, Fox News questioning the wisdom of the strike!

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/984997950396002304

makati1 on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:44 pm

Boat, maybe you don’t want to know what Putin will do? I have not seen him back down in any area. Only Americans have run with their tail between their legs since WW2.

Since when has patience been out of fashion other than in the Us where insanity reigns. Putin and China are being patient, handing out longer and longer lengths of rope to the Us. At some point, the Us will hang itself and that will end the empire.

makati1 on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:45 pm

MM, reverting to that immature putdown does NOT help your argument. lol

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:45 pm

“Clogg Russia is all talk no action. People who threaten never do anything.“

They defeated ISIS, you fool, the very ISIS/Taliban you created. And you think you can defeat Russia-China-Iran, where you get your sorry fat asses kicked by the likes of North-Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon or Somalia? The US military is a total joke, zero morale, as you can expect from a bunch of third worlders:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/15/population.race

GregT on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:49 pm

“And now this Trump fool is caving in to the left after all.”

Sorry Cloggie, but I truly hate to say; I told you so.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:52 pm

The Skripals are fine:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/2018/04/06/updates-on-the-salisbury-incident-6/

Boat on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 10:57 pm

Mak

That rope included support from NATO, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc, etc. You may be hanging out with the weaker tribes.

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:01 pm

Clogg

That guardian article is misleading. White people will be the minority if you count all minorities together. But if you count white vs black or Hispanic. There will still be two white people for every one minority. This is why you need to question everything you read in life. And not jump to conclusions. Obviously you can’t do that though because you are an emotional basket case. Possibly a paranoid schizophrenic.

GregT on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:01 pm

“The Skripals are fine:”

Surprise, surprise.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:02 pm

“CLogg you think the globalist are communist? Communism would share the wealth. That is the last thing they want. You are so deluded and insane.“

Communism=globalism=world government or the world controlled from a single center.

There are/were two flavors of communism:

1. USSR, economic egalitarianism. Defeated
2. USA, racial egalitarianism. Soon defeated

Both are/were jewish attempts to get the entire world in their possession and they have/had the dumbest whites (you come to mind, boat) under control to get the job done. On this board millimind/apneaman is the representative of The Tribe, pushing the globalist agenda and simultaneously gloating about the demise of whitey through mass immigration. Response US whitey against this humiliation: zero (apart from Greg and Mak).

No go back to watching black ball, boat.

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:04 pm

Greg

WOW you nailed it. Who would have thought the US would keep going to war in the middle east. That was a hard one to predict…LOL Whats next are you going to predict the sun will shine tomw? LOL

GregT on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:06 pm

I sincerely hope that Boat and MM are not representative of the majority of the US population, because if they are, the US has gone completely batshit insane.

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:07 pm

Clogg

You are a paranoid schizophrenic.

There are no socialist countries existing today. Socialism is not when the government does stuff. Socialism is the process of putting the means of production into the hands of the workers and social ownership of that property. The reason it doesn’t work in modern countries is because the US doesn’t want it to work. Why? Who knows. Could be fear of revolution. The point is; socialism is very often misinterpreted as something it isn’t. Canada isn’t socialist, Norway isn’t socialist, Venezuela isn’t socialist, the USSR wasn’t socialist(it was state capitalism). The only example of Socialism was France immediately after the revolution.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:08 pm

Even millikike admitted on this board recently that the chemical attack was a false flag, “but it works”, gloat, gloat:

https://twitter.com/truthjihad/status/984990846847258624

How to get rid of cancer?

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:10 pm

“I sincerely hope that Boat and MM are not representative of the majority of the US population, because if they are, the US has gone completely batshit insane.”

Asking the question is answering it.

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:11 pm

Greg

How did you know the US would keep fighting wars in the middle east? I am impressed! You are a true visionary! I bet your prediction about a slow and gradual decline with no chaos will be true as well…..LOL

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:12 pm

Brian Williams on MSNBC had such a massive throbbing erection from the air strikes that he didn’t have enough blood left for his brain and introduced Trump as “President Obama.”.

https://twitter.com/RobertoAttilio/status/984991088917270528

Boat on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:14 pm

Clog

I hired PePe a 71 yr old Argentina non english speaking immigrant. We whipped out a 470 picket fence in 3 days. Geat guy. He did so well I paid him $15 per hr instead of the normal $12. Yep these are the people you fear.lol

makati1 on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:18 pm

“That rope included support from NATO, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc, etc. You may be hanging out with the weaker tribes.”

Boat, all you did was list the losers. All the poodles of the Us do not add up to one Russia or China. Not even close. They would all be speaking German if Russia had not won WW2.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:21 pm

“Xi reviews China’s biggest naval parade ‘in 600 years’”

http://www.atimes.com/article/xi-reviews-chinas-biggest-naval-parade-600-years/

Probably not directed against Putin.

Eurasians:Anglo-Zionists – 5:1

Hmmm…

GregT on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:24 pm

“We whipped out a 470 picket fence in 3 days. ”

Wow Boat. That’s like 1 picket every 4 minutes. That’s impressive stuff!

What do you and your friend PePe plan on tackling next? Please let us all know so we no longer fear those 71 year old non english speaking Argentinian immigrants.

I know personally, that just the very thought of them has been keeping me awake at night. I’m sure that I’m not the only one.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:26 pm

“I hired PePe a 71 yr old Argentina non english speaking immigrant. We whipped out a 470 picket fence in 3 days. Geat guy. He did so well I paid him $15 per hr instead of the normal $12. Yep these are the people you fear.lol”

You confuse an individual business transaction with the macro-interactions between complete demographics. Look at Ukraine, Palestine, Ruwanda, Turkey/Kurds, Iraq, Syria, Yugoslavia to verify first hand how multi-ethnic societies play out: millions killed.

Send my regards to pepe.lol

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:26 pm

Madkat

China is not best friends with Russia. You are making shit up based on zero evidence because you want to believe the US can be stopped. It can not. We have to large of a military and way to many allies. It aint happening..The days of large scale wars are behind us. We are going to have massive global oil shortages in a few years which will make any more major wars impossible. You are stuck in the past because you are an old febrile minded construction worker. Your IQ has declined for over fifty years and you are not thinking clearly.

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:29 pm

Boat

You nailed it exactly. Clogg fears them because they will work harder than he will. He and most white people these days are big fat tub of lards. And he fears being replaced by people who are more Superior.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:30 pm

Apparently the humanitarian agressors avoided to hit the Russians:

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/985010935684313088

makati1 on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:30 pm

Boat, the construction crew for the farmhouse here will cost us about $80 per day TOTAL for the five workers who will live on site for the duration. That team consists of the four experienced laborers and a foreman who built another house my partner designed and supervised for his sister in a different town two years ago.

The construction will be rebar, concrete and CMU, not wooden sticks and fiberboard. All concrete mixed and moved by human muscle, not machine. You could not even hire one laborer in the Us for that daily cost.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:31 pm

“Boat
You nailed it exactly. ”

You’re a good ZOG-bot boat. Your owner just gave you a pat on the back.

Cloggie on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:34 pm

“And he fears being replaced by people who are more Superior.”

I fear being replaced. Americans are even more replaced than I am and I don’t like what I see:

https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/the-new-america/

Boat on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:34 pm

The US had a much more diverse population from the beginning. A one of a kind country of any size. I don’t discuss immigration in countries other than in the context of sustainability. Take care of your own messes. Play your politics at home. What goes on there….who cares.

Boat on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:37 pm

Mak

Your right, the third world is different. Got AC?

GregT on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:38 pm

“You nailed it exactly. Clogg fears them because they will work harder than he will.”

Boat would have been better off by just buying a 30 dollar made in China nail gun. He could have saved himself 22 hours of labour, at 15 bucks an hour.

makati1 on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:46 pm

MM, perhaps you need to check some recent facts about Russia and China? How many hundred articles would you like me to post to prove my point? I can provide them. For instance:

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-russia-military-political-partnership-us-2018-4

What does a lot of military sites have to do with winning? Maybe 50 years ago, it would but today, missiles are the power and Russia has the newest and best. The Us, not so much. Even China has carrier killers. The Us has zero defense against them. Denial does not change fact, MM.

BTW: A third grader calling names does not support your claims, MM. You cannot resist reverting to the little boy when you have nothing to back up your claims. The Us is being sidelined by better and more powerful countries. Adjust.

GregT on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:46 pm

Or, he could have hired Pedro from down the street, the 18 year old non english speaking illegal Mexican immigrant, and payed him 5 bucks an hour.

Boat could have saved himself enough money to pay off his ESPN bill, for at least the next couple of months.

Boat on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:48 pm

greggiet

Lol, of course we used a nail gun. We also took out the old fence. Dug a trench and put in 2×12 bottom rail for flooding along with 30 bags of concrete. A little bigger project than you pictured.

makati1 on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:50 pm

Boat, A/C? I never had A/C until I moved here. I survived 100F summers in PA for 63 years w/o A/C.

Yes, I have it here for my comfort/convenience. It is off more than on. A nice sea breeze, large, open windows and tree shade is ok most of the time. If the electric ends, I will survive. Will you?

MASTERMIND on Fri, 13th Apr 2018 11:52 pm

lol

https://i.redd.it/2hlzine0zrr01.jpg

GregT on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 12:08 am

lol

https://i.redd.it/2hlzine0zrr01.jpg

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3Fg

Boat on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 12:41 am

Mak

I don’t worry about such silly things.

Theedrich on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 12:48 am

By rocketing Syria the Empire shows its virtue. Just the thing that Millikike/man-ape along with other Yidlings in Canuckia and elsewhere want to see. Washington’s legalistic smokescreen is that the Syrians are “suspected” of gassing the rebels. Like Saddam Hussein was “suspected” of developing nukes. After all, any pretense will work if you control the Anglospherical Jewbox. And never mind the Yankee-assisted genocide of Yemenis going on south of Araby. Somehow that doesn’t interest the Heeb media.

If one of Captain America’s missiles “accidentally” kills Russians in the country that the Empire is trying to regime-change, the Pentagon may suddenly find it is missing a ship or two. Meanwhile, the North Koreans, observing all this from afar, are hardening their resolve not to be the next target of the world’s largest insane asylum. Not even all the imported Chinese geeks working to update American H-bombs may be able to intimidate the DPRK into surrendering. So with the D.C. warmongers determined to subjugate the entire globe to themselves, we may now be slouching toward doomsday.

makati1 on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 12:49 am

Boat, sounds like a famous quote:

“What? Me Worry?”

makati1 on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 12:52 am

Theedrich, one step at a time towards that midnight. We can only hope for a ‘Yuge’ collapse or revolt inside the Us. Not likely, but…

Cloggie on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 1:10 am

“lol

https://i.redd.it/2hlzine0zrr01.jpg”

Congrats millikike/apneaman, you have your Anglos under control again.

Btw, what you need is a good shower.

Cloggie on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 1:21 am

Meanwhile in Germany: Merkel’s CDU dramatic losses in polls.

https://www.focus.de/politik/videos/aktuelle-wahlumfrage-afd-in-brandenburg-ploetzlich-zweitstaerkste-partei-cdu-erlebt-historischen-absturz_id_6011977.html

In East-Germany CDU open for cooperation with AfD.

DerHundistLos on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 1:36 am

Poor Theedrich can’t bring itself to criticize the Dear Leader for ordering the bombing of Syria so blame it on “Millikike/man-ape along with other Yidlings in Canuckia”, whoever the hell these people constitute.
In essence, Theedrich suggests President Dump is a robot. Dump is not at fault-poor Don-it’s his evil controllers from Canuckia.

Oh, brother, what a nutty conundrum.

Cloggie on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 2:27 am

Ok, time for some damage assessment. Perhaps it is not so bad afterall. US military said the attack was twice as heavy as the previous one, but twice times nothing is still nothing. Most interesting, a lot of missiles were intercepted, well, according to the Russians:

https://www.rt.com/news/424103-100-missiles-launched-at-syria/

Russia did NOT use its missiles. More than 100 US cruise missiles were fired and many of them intercepted with old Soviet “junk”. LOL we already knew that all military hardware, from carriers to jets, is inferior to missiles in 2018, but now we know that even state-of-the-art US cruise missiles are no match for old Soviet junk, let alone S400 air defense.

This is valuable knowledge and extremely bad news for parties with agressive intentions, the US comes to mind. We already knew that the US navy was a 1940s anachronism, now apparently the ISIS err US airforce can be categorized as useless junk as well. The wine will be tasting excellent tonight. In the Kremlin.

The additional good news is that apparently the Russians and Americans were carefull to avoid direct confrontation and were constantly communicating.

Perhaps we can book this event as releasing western resentment steam in the face of the failure of the Anglo strategy of destroying Syria on orders of the neocohns.

I think I am NOT going to short-cut my already short vacation, high in the Alps. Perhaps I am even going to skip cut-throat gestures at British and Americans.lol

Cloggie on Sat, 14th Apr 2018 2:41 am

The greatest disappointment for me was the behavior of Macron. “Voila, nous sommes important! quaak”

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/985056862369443840

Some good news:

https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS/status/984766172980752384

Muslims good for something after all.

Look who is arriving at work this morning.lol

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/985045409830760448

Lonely sane voice from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard:

https://twitter.com/FDW_VB/status/985040903755698177

Alex Jones crying:

https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/985025741136932864