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Saudi-led coalition, mercenaries looted over 18 million barrels of Yemen oil last year
2019-10-06
[PRESSTV] 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...
i oil ministry affiliated with the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s says countries of the Saudi-led coalition and their mercenaries looted more than 18 million barrels of the country’s oil exports last year.

Speaking at a presser in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Saturday, Ahmed Daris said the coalition "looted more than 18 million barrels of oil exports last year and sent their money to the Saudi National Bank," Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported.

Daris also called on the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
to shoulder its responsibility in facilitating the release of oil shipments detained by the Saudi-led coalition waging war on the impoverished nation.

He warned the Saudi-led coalition that the continued detention of the oil tankers will further motivate Yemeni people to join anti-Saudi frontlines.

"Free oil tankers, our people will not surrender to the continued detention, but this will be an incentive to move to frontlines," he 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...
and its allies launched military campaign on Yemen in March 2015 with the aim of reinstalling the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Yemen’s southern areas are controlled by Saudi-backed officials of the former Yemeni government. Saudi Arabia has taken control over the provinces' seaports and airports, using them to deploy hundreds of troops in the region.

Related:
Houthis: 2019-10-01 #Yemen's #Houthis to free 350 captives, including three #Saudis, in good will gesture
Houthis: 2019-09-29 Trump rejected Iran’s conditions for meeting Rouhani: Zarif
Houthis: 2019-09-27 US deploys air defense systems, troops to Saudi Arabia
Related:
Sana’a: 2019-10-03 Three Saudi bases, over 150 square kilometers taken in 2nd phase of Najran offensive
Sana’a: 2019-08-30 UAE-backed troops abandon Saudi-led battle against Ansarallah forces in northern Yemen
Sana’a: 2019-08-17 Houthis believe Khamenei is continuing the Prophet’s leadership
Posted by:Fred

#1  so,that's what happens in war.
Posted by: chris   2019-10-06 11:10  

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