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| Yemen Rocket Kills One at Saudi Mosque |
| 2015-06-13 |
| [AnNahar] A rocket fired from 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... killed one civilian and maimed another at a mosque during Friday prayers in the Saudi border region, the Saudi-led coalition said. "They fired one missile, a Katyusha... at the time of Friday prayer," Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri, the coalition front man, told AFP. Assiri initially said two people had died in the attack. The incident came two days before Yemen's exiled government and rebel forces are set to hold talks in Geneva sponsored by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... in an effort to end the war that has killed more than 2,000 people. On the Saudi side of the frontier at least 39 people -- civilians and troops -- have now bit the dust in shelling and border skirmishes since March 26, when the coalition began bombing Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. Authorities tightly restrict access by foreign journalists to the border zone. Last Saturday the coalition said it shot down a Scud missile fired from Yemen and Assiri said the alliance is still hunting others that might be in rebel hands. "We are not at zero risk," he said. The coalition made targeting rebel missile capabilities a priority when it launched its aerial campaign. "We destroyed most of them," Assiri said, adding that 300 missiles of various types belonged to the Yemeni army before the war. Houthis obtained government weapons when they seized the capital Sanaa late last year before advancing into other parts of the country. Some troops loyal to Yemen's ousted president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... have been fighting in Yemen alongside the Huthis, who are still hiding missiles in caves and other locations, Assiri said. About 10 percent of the rebel missile arsenal has yet to be located, he said. "We work hard to find them. It is not an easy task." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 It's the Wahabbi Sauds. They keep theirs in proper armories. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-06-13 14:14 |
| #1 lucky it didn't set off the secondaries |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-06-13 11:32 |