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US pulls missile defenses in Saudi Arabia amid attacks by Iran-backed rebels
2021-09-12
[IsraelTimes] Pentagon acknowledges ’redeployment of certain air defense assets’ but insists America maintains ’broad and deep’ commitment to its Mideast allies.

The US has removed its most advanced missile defense system and Patriot batteries from Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
in recent weeks, even as the kingdom faced continued air attacks from Yemen
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Saudi Arabia has just signed a military agreement with Russia -- something unthinkable under a Trump administration.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-09-12 09:39  

#2  So the improvement of relations between the KSA and Israel a couple of years ago could be rather helpful?
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-09-12 09:39  

#1  Joe needs a lot more turmoil in the ME to go with the interference with oil extraction in the US to get to $12 / gal gasoline.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-12 08:37  

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