Attacks On Major Saudi Oil Installations Show Urgent Need For Peace With Yemen

Submitted by LocutusOP on Thu, 09/19/2019 - 23:55
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Taffyboy, so,  stevelaudig,  Laguerre  

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Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 23:30
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Attacks On Major Saudi Oil Installations Show Urgent Need For Peace With Yemen

 

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..."U.S. Ambassador John #Abizaid: “The U.S. strongly condemns today’s drone attacks against oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais. These attacks against critical infrastructure endanger civilians, are unacceptable, and sooner or later will result in innocent lives being lost.”...

Right again Captain Obvious, a string of pearls from a vomiting dog. We know who the aggressors have been. The Houtis, are following through, like a prize fighter knowing your opponent is doomed and making sure he goes down for the count. Start counting Captain, your man is finished.

 

Posted by: Taffyboy | Sep 14 2019 16:15 utc | 2

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The sooner my countrymen(US) find out the real cost/value of oil the better.
Time for a healthy dose of reality for the west. Of course we can always continue to destroy our water supply by fracking for a few more years.

 

Posted by: so | Sep 14 2019 16:24 utc | 3

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Greatest strength, greatest weakness. All the Saudi Royalty had to do with its vast wealth is figure out a way to spread it around. Instead, in their malice and delusion, they wanted to become an imperial power. With less success than Italy. It could have become the Denmark of its neighborhood. Competent, modern, instead it painted bull's eyes on its back by exporting religious bigotry. Saudi Arabia, the last home of Idi Amin.

 

Posted by: stevelaudig | Sep 14 2019 16:43 utc | 9

 

A very successful attack, to judge from the videos. The Houthis have become much more effective recently.

From what I can judge, the south of Yemen - Aden, Hadramawt and Mahra - is now in complete confusion, and there's no longer a base for Saudi/Emirati ground operations to work from. However the San'a and Aden staff of an NGO I know were able to get out this week for a meeting outside the country with their organisation. It turns out that people from San'a just get the bus to Aden, and whichever airport is functioning. The journey is just not very secure, but lots of people do it.

 

Posted by: Laguerre | Sep 14 2019 16:48 utc | 10

 

 

 

 

 

Own comment: 

It is hard to know what to make of the attacks on Saudi Arabia's - and the world's - largest oil refinery.

For sure the Saudis are the losers, and Iran can certainly be a winner, as can the U.S. and it's murderous zionist ally. However, it is difficult to see why Iran would go to all the trouble to launch such an attack and then not take credit for it. It is easy to see why the U.S. and especially Israel would do it.

However, it is easiest to see why the Houthi rebels would do it. They have demonstrated that they can strike deep into Saudi Arabia, and they have all the reason in the world to want to do it. The Houth rebels also have all the right in the world to take out Saudi Arabian infrastructure.

It is obviously an embarassment to the U.S. that the Houthis  would manage to do it given the amount of U.S. weaponry in the region, and it is therefore not surprising that the U.S. would cook up a story about Iranian involvement, and even less surprsing that the U.S. prostitute media would go along with whatever narrative the establishment cooks up.