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Arabia
Missiles, drones from Yemen 'intercepted' over Saudi Arabia
2018-04-12
[DAWN] 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...
's air defences on Wednesday "intercepted" a ballistic missile fired from rebel-held 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...
at Riyadh, a military front man said, adding two others were shot down in southern Saudi Arabia.

The announcement came after an AFP journalist witnessed kabooms and heard three blasts over the capital, which has previously been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

"An Iranian ballistic missile launched from Sadaa towards Riyadh was successfully intercepted by Saudi Air Defence earlier today," Colonel Turki al-Malki, front man for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Huthis, said.

He said Saudi forces also intercepted two missiles in the southern Jizan and Najran
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces....
provinces close to the border with Yemen.

The attacks were claimed by the rebels via their news outlet al-Masirah.

"The missile force carried out a large-scale ballistic missile attack on various parts of Saudi Arabia," al-Masirah said.

As the announcement on the missile interceptions emerged, Malki also said in a separate statement that Saudi air defences had shot down two unmanned Yemeni drones on Wednesday in southern Saudi Arabia.

One of the drones was targeting the Abha international airport in Asir province, which led to a temporary suspension of air traffic, and a second was approaching a "civilian object" in Jizan province, he said.

The Huthis claimed attacks on Abha airport and Saudi Aramco, located in Jizan, via al-Masirah, publishing an infographic of the "Qasef 1" drone.

Aramco in a statement on Wednesday said, "Saudi Aramco operations and facilities, including our facilities in Jizan, are operating normally and safely".

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