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UAE Armed Forces say Houthi rebels targeted a medical aid ship off coast of Yemen

2017-06-16

[NEWS.XINHUANET] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces General Command said on Thursday that a UAE ship carrying medical aid had been hit by a rocket attack launched by Shiite al-Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militia off the Yemeni port of Mukha, Emirati state news agency WAM news agency reported.

"The rebel Houthi militias fired a missile at a United Arab Emirates aid ship carrying medical equipment while departing from the Yemeni port of al-Mokha," the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces said in a statement on Thursday.

The attack caused no damage to the vessel, but left one crew member injured, added the General Command, affirming that it is following up and tracking down those behind the attack.

The UAE command reiterated its warning against "the danger posed by the Houthi belligerent activities and arms smuggling on the safety of international navigation in this vital part of the world."

The statement called upon the international community to exercise more pressures on the Houthi militias to comply with UN Security Council Resolution No 2216 on prevention of such "criminal activities."

The UAE has been delivering urgent medical assistance to a number of governorates in 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...
to help contain the cholera outbreak.

Posted by:Fred

#5 *oh snap*

Posted by: Frank G 2017-06-16 12:44

#4 Bottom line, my dear Hemingway, you are being red pencilled for bad writing, not being un-PC. You simply don't meet our standads.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-16 10:21

#3 Hemingway doesn't do thought. He throws together some salacious text that he thinks we will swallow, hoping to point it out to his progressive friends as an example of how racist and simple-minded we are. He is like that writer who joined the Army and got as far as Kuwait, then wrote purple prose for one of the liberal magazines purporting to show that his comrades in Iraq were vicious simpletons... only it was entirely a figment of his imagination. He was court martialed for it, as I recall, and fired from the magazine as well. I don't remember if his girlfriend was fired as well, though she deserved to be for selling the series to the editor.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-16 10:15

#2 Sorry, Hemingway - but it isn't "Moslem Values". At least not as a primary reason.

Using your simplistic logic, 291 homicides (that's murders - try to follow me here) in Chicago are "OUR values" Baltimore's race to match them? Moslem values. Some guy shooting up a bunch of politicians on a ball field in the glorious state of Virginia? Our, or Moslem values. Two prisoners from that bastion of Southern Values, Georgia, killing two guards and carjacking their way to Tennessee? Whose values.

Sounds ludicrous, Hemingway? Sounds kind of stupid, doesn't it?

Maybe it's something else. Maybe you could come up with an answer if you did some real thinking. If you don't want to think, look at History. Pol Pot and Cambodia is an easy example. The Holocaust is even easier. If you're really stumped or reading is too damn hard, maybe you could ask a cop or an emergency room doc for an answer when they've dealt with a badly beaten toddler. Surely you know a couple - maybe even on friendly terms. Or find a good newspaper reporter and buy 'em a drink.

Or if that sounds like too much work - ask yourself, why the Protestant Irish still hate the Catholic ones and vice versa. Or if that's really hard to do, why, after 150 years, why the US Civil War still lingers, especially in your neck of the woods.

Moslem Values. Right?

Go on, Hemingway. Give it some thought.

Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-16 09:46

#1 Am I allowed to mention Islamic Values? Or is that not considered PC here?

Am I racist if I point out that Moslem Values actually are Moslem Values? Or is that too radical a concept for rantburg to allow or Conscience?

Islam is not going to have what we consider normal self evident Values. So if they target a Hospital ship or a Hospital per se...they don't feel any shame or disconnect. They feel perfectly at ease in their Islamic reality with setting up a rocket emplacement next to a Daycare center. They are Moslems.

We expect them to have OUR Values. They are actually Moslems and they don't have our values You can erase this post now for telling you the sky is Blue.

Posted by: Slavique Jese3950 2017-06-16 08:02

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