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2021-11-11 Arabia
Breaking: Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen, Seize Hostages and Equipment
Also submitted by 746.
[WFB] Let's go, Brandon! Fuck Joe Biden
State Department 'concerned about the breach of the compound,' demands release of hostages

The State Department is working to secure the release of several kidnapped hostages taken by Iran-backed terrorists just a day after the militant group stormed the U.S. embassy facility in Sana'a, Yemen, U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon early Thursday.

A group of Houthi rebels reportedly stormed the U.S. compound on Wednesday seeking "large quantities of equipment and materials," according to regional reports translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The raid comes just five days after the Houthis kidnapped Yemeni nationals who work for the U.S. embassy. "The alleged raid comes after the Houthis kidnapped three Yemeni nationals affiliated with the U.S. Embassy from one of the employee's private residences in Sana'a on November 5," according to MEMRI. At least 22 other Yemenis were kidnapped by the Houthis in recent weeks, "most of whom worked on the security staff guarding the embassy grounds," according to MEMRI.

The State Department confirmed to the Free Beacon that the Yemeni staffers are being detained without explanation and that the Iran-backed militants stole property after breaching the American facility in Sana'a, which housed U.S. embassy staff prior to the suspension of operations there in 2015.
Posted by Frank G 2021-11-11 13:40|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 Set as new headline.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-11 13:50||   2021-11-11 13:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Suspend operations, but keep desirable (by the attackers anyway, or so they think, or so we are told) equipment there and maintain a payroll. Sounds like typical gummint log-rolling to me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-11 13:54||   2021-11-11 13:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Aw Fuck, More Reruns.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-11-11 14:02||   2021-11-11 14:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Sana'a is deep in Houthi held territory.

US has probably, for years, been paying bribes to Houthis for safety.

Maybe somebody was too busy studying pronouns to write the check.
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-11 14:46||   2021-11-11 14:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah! The 70s!

What we need is a rescue mission which fails because NATO Phonetic is triggering.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-11 15:59||   2021-11-11 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ^^^ Exactly right. Except in the 70s it took about 10 years to mess things up this badly. Joe has done it all in less than a year.
Posted by Tom 2021-11-11 16:14||   2021-11-11 16:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Ted Koppel, where are you now that we really need you?
Posted by Tom 2021-11-11 16:14||   2021-11-11 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 We need someone with experience in this kind of situation. Paging Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter to the red phone please.
Posted by jpal 2021-11-11 16:25||   2021-11-11 16:25|| Front Page Top

#9 "#2 Suspend operations, but keep desirable (by the attackers anyway, or so they think, or so we are told) equipment there and maintain a payroll."

Did exactly that for 13 years in AFG from Feb 89 to Jan 2002. I talked to the dude who did the payroll runs from I-Bad to Kabul over the Khyber Pass.
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2021-11-11 16:59||   2021-11-11 16:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Party like it's 1979
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-11 17:04||   2021-11-11 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Thirteen years, Bangkok Billy? One wonders if we are still doing the same in Tehran...

Separately, PJ Media’s Robert Spencer reminds us that President Biden’s administration took the Houthis off the foreign terrorists list in February.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-11 19:32||   2021-11-11 19:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Can I say BAT SHIT CRAZY in Rantburgs comments section ?

If so,

Biden is BSC...

Thank you, Thank you very much, You BSC Biden Voters
Posted by Injun B. Hayes5531 2021-11-11 19:42||   2021-11-11 19:42|| Front Page Top

#13 #10: deja-vu all over again. n'est ce pas?
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-11-11 19:44||   2021-11-11 19:44|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 - of course you can. FACTS
Posted by Frank G 2021-11-11 20:01||   2021-11-11 20:01|| Front Page Top

#15 So, it's 11/11.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-11 21:18||   2021-11-11 21:18|| Front Page Top

#16 We’re actually stupid enough to have an embassy in Sana’a? Having one even in Aden would be bad enough, but Sana’a,???
Sana has been the Houthi capital for the last decade
Everyone who works in the State Department belongs in front of a firing squad for such stupidity or send back to Europe,
where most of them are from.
I'm still a little miffed about the Saudis financing that thing in New York where some people did some things. Let's Go Brandon and the Saudis too. Rot in Hell.
PS Why our military is listening to this highly European educated amateurs teenagers
Posted by Ichnusa  2021-11-11 22:09||   2021-11-11 22:09|| Front Page Top

#17 Give them the same treatment as State gave our people in Afghanistan. Leave them behind.
Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2021-11-11 23:47||   2021-11-11 23:47|| Front Page Top

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