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Arabia
Saudi Warplanes Intensify Raids ahead of Truce, Use Banned Weapons
2015-05-13
[ALMANAR.LB] Few hours before a planned truce in Yemen, the US-backed warplanes intensified Arclight airstrikes on several areas across the country, with al-Manar correspondent stressing that internationally banned weapons have been used in the brutal attack.

Khalil al-Omari, our correspondent in the Yemeni capital, said that the Arclight airstrikes on Tuesday hit al-Naqem Mountain and al-Nahda neighborhood in Sanaa.Saudi raids on Yemen

The strikes killed at least 19 people, the correspondent said, adding that the corpse count of the Arclight airstrikes which targeted the province of Taez a day earlier reached 34.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?

Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.

If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...

al-Omari quoted Yemeni doctor as saying that the Saudi coalition has been using internationally banned weapons.

"The situation is actually tragic since the aggression is harsh and barbaric," doctor Kamala Ramima told al-Manar.

He said that the doctors across hospitals 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...
are saying that the injuries indicate that the US-Saudi coalition is using internationally prohibited weapons.

The Saudi attacks come few hours before the five-day humanitarian truce
..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting...
. Earlier on Sunday, Yemeni army and Ansarullah revolutionaries agreed on the ceasefire, but warned against any violation by the 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...
or any of its allies.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen's runaway president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.

On April 21, Saudi Arabia declared the end of the aggression, dubbed "Decisive Strom," and the start of another campaign called "Restoring Hope."
Posted by:Fred

#14  Napalm? Would be good if so.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2015-05-13 23:21  

#13  Sounds like they are attacking with bacon, what could be more banned?
Posted by: Beau   2015-05-13 18:03  

#12  Aged Rockeye steaks non non nom
Posted by: Shipman   2015-05-13 15:17  

#11  How about bombs that release flaming bags of pig shut wrapped around cluster bomblets?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2015-05-13 15:16  

#10  Can we instead make the flaming bags of shit be pigshit?????
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-05-13 14:31  

#9  /me guesses: cluster bombs.

But I really like the flaming bags of dogshit idea.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-05-13 13:19  

#8  Banned weapons? I guess it means they're using non-muslim mercenaries to drop flaming bacon grease.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-05-13 13:12  

#7  I'm thinking flaming bags of dogshit...
Posted by: tu3031   2015-05-13 12:57  

#6  I note the "US-backed warplanes" make it extra evil and dastardly.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-05-13 12:41  

#5  Yet the article does not mention what kind of banned weapons they are using.

"Whatever is baneful to us".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-13 12:23  

#4  "the aggression is harsh and barbaric"

Yes, the lawyer-vetted and diplomat-approved aggression as practiced in the West is so much more preferable.

Posted by: Pappy   2015-05-13 11:33  

#3  Banned weapons. Like CDs of that new kid music group from the UK?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-05-13 10:40  

#2  "decisive storm" like a second-rate plagiarism of "desert storm"

I just don't really feel any sympathy here for any players. Yemen might be facing famine but you know? they're a sharia land where there is no age of consent because child marriage is applauded as being of the good example of the Great Prophet MoMo (Ptui). so really my only sadness is they can't put up a good fight and bleed the saudis ... they can all kill each other.
Posted by: anon1   2015-05-13 06:11  

#1  Yet the article does not mention what kind of banned weapons they are using.
Posted by: chris   2015-05-13 05:51  

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