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2019-09-29 Arabia
3 Saudi brigades destroyed, scores of mercs captured in Najran offensive: Yemeni Army spox
[PRESSTV] The front man for 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...
i Armed Forces says three Saudi military brigades were completely destroyed after Yemeni Army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, mounted a large-scale military offensive in the kingdom’s southern border region of Najran
a city in southwestern 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...

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near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved....
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Speaking at a presser in the capital Sana’a on Saturday evening, Brigadier General Yahya Saree described the major and efficient operation, dubbed God's Victory, as the biggest-ever since Saudi Arabia and some of its allies embarked an atrocious military campaign on Yemen more than four years ago, noting that the offensive lasted several months and inflicted dramatic losses ‐ both in terms of military hardware and personnel ‐ upon the enemy, the media bureau of Yemen’s 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 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...
Ansarullah movement said in a statement.

"The operation resulted in the complete destruction of three military brigades of the enemy (Saudi) forces, seizure of large quantities of military equipment, including hundreds of vehicles and armored vehicles, capture of thousands of enemy forces, mostly traitors and the beguiled (Saudi-sponsored Yemeni bully boyz loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi). Hundreds more were killed and maimed in the process as well," Saree pointed out.

Posted by Fred 2019-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [25 views ]  Top
 File under: Houthis 

#1 ...Not impossible, but damned unlikely. The Saudi Army is approximately eighteen brigades in size, so losing three - or even having them chewed up enough to go combat ineffective - would be a pretty serious hit. I'm thinking that were it true, the 82nd Airborne would be ramping up for a deployment, and the Marines would be inbound as well; a hole in the forces like that would simply be too much for the Iranians to resist.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-09-29 04:38||   2019-09-29 04:38|| Front Page Top

#2 It's them pesky decimal point, Mike.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-29 05:49||   2019-09-29 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep hearing about these mercs.All they seem to do is get killed.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2019-09-29 06:49||   2019-09-29 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 spox?
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-09-29 07:14||   2019-09-29 07:14|| Front Page Top

#5 spox?

A viral disease - like chicken spox.

Or Persian for 'spokesweasel'
Posted by SteveS 2019-09-29 07:25||   2019-09-29 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 ...said Sana’a Sam, Baghdad Bob's little brother...
Posted by Hupuling Sforza8933 2019-09-29 08:12||   2019-09-29 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Baghdad Bob seems to have found a new job.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-29 08:19||   2019-09-29 08:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Video
Posted by newc 2019-09-29 14:15||   2019-09-29 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 LWJ
Posted by newc 2019-09-29 14:23||   2019-09-29 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 The video is more a parade than surrendered Army. Dutifully marching along, no walking wounded, no camo.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-29 16:40||   2019-09-29 16:40|| Front Page Top

#11 They needed footage of defeated, demoralized men of military age so they just called out everyone from a nearby town.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-09-29 17:35||   2019-09-29 17:35|| Front Page Top

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