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| US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid rising tensions with Iran |
| 2021-01-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] Military says testing of shipping through Yanbu is ’contingency’ planning; bases at Tabuk and Taif under consideration as attacks increase 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... ’s Tehran-backed 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 JewsThey 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. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 And yesterday we were cutting off the sale of arms to the Magic Kingdom. We are also trying to restart the Iran deal. If I were Saudi Arabia I'd be looking for alternate sources of military aid if the US cuts off the tap and I'd put any US bases down near Yemen. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-01-28 10:05 |