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2024-08-24 Arabia
Fires break out on abandoned Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion that Yemen rebels attacked in Red Sea - ABC News
Fires broke out Friday on a Greek-flagged oil tanker previously attacked by 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...
'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...
 rebels this week, with the vessel now appearing to be adrift in the Red Sea, authorities said.

It wasn't immediately clear what had happened to the oil tanker Sounion, which had been abandoned by its crew on Thursday and reportedly anchored in place.

The Houthis didn't immediately acknowledge the fire. The rebels are suspected to have gone back and attacked at least one other vessel that later sank as part of their monthslong campaign against shipping in the Red Sea over the ongoing Israel-Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
 war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip that's disrupted a trade route that typically sees $1 trillion in goods pass through it annually.

The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported the fires in a note to mariners on Friday night.

''UKMTO have received a report that three fires have been observed on vessel,'' the center said. ''The vessel appears to be drifting.''

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
 to discuss intelligence matters, said American officials were aware of the fires and continued to monitor the situation.
IRNA adds:
The Yemeni armed forces announced in a statement on Thursday night that it has launched two more operations to continue supporting the oppressed people of Gazoo and the Mujahideen of resistance and to respond to the aggression of the United States and the UK against yemen.

According to the website of Yemen's "Al-Masira" network, in the first Yemeni operation, the oil ship "SOUNION" belonging to a company that cooperates with the Zionist enemy, was attacked by the Yemeni armed forces in the Red Sea and the ship is sinking.

According to this report, in the second operation, the ship "Sw North Wind I" was targeted in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, which also belongs to a company related to the Zionist regime.

In these two operations, Yemeni naval, drone and missile forces participated.
Posted by Fred 2024-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 Around the year 1900 there was the Heshamite kingdom of Transjordan and there was Yemen. There was no Saudi because the Saudi lived in Kuwait and were a favored warlord for protecting British caravans from the far east.

Then the British found oil on the Arabian peninsula. But the British will sware up and down that they did not find oil yet, even though they did.

Then the British made a deal with the warlord Saudis living in Kuwait.

The British would supply the money,the weapons, the strategic planning, the political support all around the world, and the Saudis would supply the puppet figurehead.

The British, using the Saudis conquered the southern part of Transjordan and the northern part of Yemen and established a new country called Saudi Arabia. (THIS COUNTRY SHOULD NOT EXIST,AND IRAN KNOWS IT)

But now, it has been discovered that under Yemen there is more oil than the Saudis had, plus there is natural gas the Saudido not have.

So, the race was on to conquer Yemen.

That is why the US, using Saudi (again) bombed Yemen for the last 12 years
Posted by Frank Sias 2024-08-24 14:19||   2024-08-24 14:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Around the year 1900 there was the Heshamite kingdom of Transjordan ?????????????????????????
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-24 15:09||   2024-08-24 15:09|| Front Page Top

#3 "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor??"
Posted by Frank G 2024-08-24 17:17||   2024-08-24 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Sometimes I find myself idly wondering if the world was a better place when the British East India Company was running the show.
Posted by SteveS 2024-08-24 17:21||   2024-08-24 17:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Houthi's claim they blew it up, raising an Article 5 question?

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/08/23/watch-houthi-terrorists-blow-up-greek-flagged-oil-tanker-in-move-that-could-trigger-natos-article-5/">https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/08/23/watch-houthi-terrorists-blow-up-greek-flagged-oil-tanker-in-move-that-could-trigger-natos-article-5/
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-08-24 17:42||   2024-08-24 17:42|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd go for an intense "Houthi Infrastructure 7th Century reset" program. Just 7 days of smackdown would send a message to other Iranian tools. Use weapons nearing their expiration dates
Posted by Frank G 2024-08-24 18:09||   2024-08-24 18:09|| Front Page Top

#7  Use weapons nearing their expiration dates

I thought all those were given to Ukraine or left behind during the bugout from Afghanistan.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-24 19:07||   2024-08-24 19:07|| Front Page Top

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