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| KSA Lacks Real Army to Invade Yemen: 10,000 Saudi Soldiers Fled Bases |
| 2015-04-30 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] The Global Research quoted European diplomatic sources as saying on Sunday that, almost 4,000 Saudi forces fled their border bases in anticipation of Riyadh's order for launching a ground assault on Yemen. "The intel gathered by the western intelligence agencies showed that the Saudi military forces have fled their bases, military centers and bordering checkpoints near 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... in groups," diplomatic sources were quoted as saying by Iraq's Arabic-language Nahrain Net news website. Other reports also said that over 10,000 soldiers from different Saudi military units have fled the army battalions and the National Guard, accordiing to the Global Research. Experts believe that the Saudi army lacks strong morale to launch a ground invasion of Yemen and such an attack would be considered as a suicide for 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... . Media reports mentioned that European intelligence services assert that Saudi does not have a real army and infantry troops to face the Yemeni troops and tribes as well as the Houthis in case Riyadh decide to launch a ground invasion. The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... considered that the Saudi campaign failed to attain any considerable achievement in Yemen, noting that the battlefield situation have not remarkably changed since the beginning of the Aggression on March 26. Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition. Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen's runaway president Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia. On April 21, Saudi Arabia declared the end of the aggression, dubbed "Decisive Strom". However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the Saudi-led warplanes are still conducting More than 2,800 people were martyred by the Saudi aggression, most of them are civilians. Thousands more were maimed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 More ... * RELATED TOPIX, TASNIMNEWS > SAUID ARABIA UNABLE TO REACH/ACHIEVE GOALS IN YEMEN: EGYPTIAN ANALYST. Ditto also as per Yemeni Officios. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-30 23:41 |
| #11 In the great words of AHMED AL-BUNDY > "D *** NG IT, ALLAN, THIS CERTAINLY S *** KS - THAT CAMEL DOESN'T CARRY"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-30 22:33 |
| #10 Al-Manar is Hezbollah's mouthpiece. Salt as needed. Thank you, Gloria. Incidentally, both The Daily Star (Lebanon) and Arab News (Saudi Arabia) also have no mention of any desertions. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-04-30 11:31 |
| #9 #7 - Arabs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-30 11:02 |
| #8 Al-Manar is Hezbollah's mouthpiece. Salt as needed. |
| Posted by: Gloria 2015-04-30 10:05 |
| #7 Not really surprising. All mid east armies except the Israelis seem to be like this. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-04-30 08:53 |
| #6 I bet the Ruritanians could take them. I bet even the mighty Uruguayans could take them. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-04-30 08:29 |
| #5 I'm not sure, but I have to wonder if Al Manar is Hizb'allah's newspaper, echoing the Iran party line. An Nahar didn't have any reports on Saudi desertions. If so, the above report may or may not be true. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-04-30 08:15 |
| #4 Must've gone 'diversity' a good time ago. An Army ready for parade is not necessarily an army ready for war. An Army that is ready for war is not necessarily an army ready to parade. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-30 07:30 |
| #3 Yet another imminent victory for Champ's "smart" diplomacy. What will happen if KSA turns into Syria or Yemen or Iraq? When, not if, the entire mid-east blows up who gets the Paki nukes? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-04-30 07:07 |
| #2 Saudi better nuke up, because they will be attrited to death by the Iranians. Saudis need hard fast decisive victories or they will lose. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-04-30 01:16 |
| #1 It appears that KSA has a parade ground army with lots of nifty uniforms and pretty equipment. Unfortunately they are a bunch of hot house pussies that don't have any guts to fight. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-04-30 00:39 |