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2019-06-16 Arabia
Drone Wars Over Yemen And Gulf Of Oman Revealed
[Jpost] Two US MQ-9 Reaper drones were involved in incidents 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...
and the Gulf of Oman that raises questions about the extensive use of the drones and also how Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its allies are targeting them. Fox News and CNN revealed that a US drone was targeted by an Iranian missile during the June 13 tanker incident and that a drone was downed over Yemen by Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets

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...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. Houthi drones also have targeted 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...
numerous times over the last week.

In the last weeks the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have increased their drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. This is part of an ongoing war that stretches back to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in 2015 when the Houthis appeared to threaten Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb straits. The Houthis have sophisticated technology, including ballistic missiles that have been fired at Riyadh, anti-ship missiles that have harassed warships in the Red Sea, and also drones. In the last week three drone attacks have been reported on Saudi Arabia’s Abha city.

However new details show that two US MQ-9 Reaper drones were involved in incidents in Yemen and the Gulf of Oman that paint a new picture of the extent of US drone use and involvement. The story in Yemen is murky. Houthis claimed to have shot down a US Reaper drone on June 6. Details were released over the last few days but the US largely ignored this story. US drones have been targeted before over Yemen. One was shot down in 2017.

Barbara Starr at CNN reported on Friday that a Reaper was shot down in the Red Sea by Iranian backed Houthis.

In addition a second US drone was involved in the tanker incident on June 13 when the US says two tankers were attacked off the coast of Iran. "A Us drone tracked Iranian boats closing in on the two tankers prior to attack Thursday. Iran spotted the MQ-9 and launched a SAM missile but missed," Starr reported.

FoxNews reported that the drone arrived on the scene after the tanker Front Altair sent a distress call. That would have been in the morning around 6:20am. An official told Fox News that the MQ-9 Reaper arrived within 8 minutes of the 6:12am distress call. At 6:45 an SA-7 missile was fired at the drone from Iran.

That means Iranian air defenses fired at a US drone that was apparently over international waters off the coast of Iran. Iran may have learned how to confront US drones from their Houthi allies.

The US did not initially report either of the details about the drones. That the Houthis shot down a US drone appears to be important news. But like so much else in US operations in around eighty countries in the world against terrorist and holy warrior groups, much goes on in the shadows.

A drone war is occurring over Yemen and also in the region between Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf of Oman, testing both US weapon systems and the weapon systems that Iran and its allies and proxies have at their disposal. The use of drones over Yemen has gone on for many years. For instance Anwar al-Awlaki
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
, an holy warrior and eventual al-Qaeda supporter was killed in 2011. One of the first known dronezaps in Yemen was carried out by an MQ-1 Predator drone in 2002. These have been flying since the mid-1990s, while the Reaper has been in service since the mid-2000s. Of more recent importance is the Houthi rebel use of drones. With both sides now using them, and with anti-drone technology increasing, tensions in the gulf are increasingly a contest between unmanned vehicles, and the missiles that target them.
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