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Mine Kills Saudi Guard on Yemen Border
[An Nahar] A mine blast killed a Saudi border guard on Sunday on the kingdom's southern frontier with war-wracked Yemen, the interior ministry said.Another three members of the force were maimed in the kaboom in Jizan province, a front man cited by the official SPA news agency said. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has led a coalition battling Iran-backed Houthis in its impoverished southern neighbor for the past two years. At least 130 Saudi members of the security forces and civilians have been killed, mainly by rockets fired from Yemen, since the coalition intervened in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in March 2015. The Saudi-led coalition also comprises the Gulf monarchies of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and the United Arab Emirates along with Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan. Despite the coalition intervention, the Huthis still control the capital Sanaa and much of the northern highlands adjacent to the Saudi border. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-17 |
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