[AnNahar] A Saudi general has been killed in the south of the country near the border with Yemen, where he had been "defending the country", the army announced Sunday.Brigadier General Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Jazan, died from his injuries after being taken to hospital, 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...
's official news agency said, without giving the date or exact circumstances of the incident.
He is the second high-ranking Saudi military official to have been announced killed on the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
border this weekend.
A colonel and another border guard were killed late Friday in a shootout after a landmine blast along the frontier with Yemen, according to the interior ministry.
Several other Saudi soldiers have also been killed since March when the kingdom formed an Arab coalition to fight Shiite Houthis in Yemen.
In June, a Saudi lieutenant colonel died in a landmine blast in Jazan, while another general was killed in cross-border fire in August.