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UN urges Saudi-led coalition to stop targeting Yemen airport
2015-05-06
A Saudi-led coalition should stop targeting Yemen's Sanaa airport, the United Nations said on Monday, as it prepared a plan to set up an air-bridge to airlift humanitarian workers and white Toyota Land Cruisers into the country from Djibouti.

"No flights can take off or land while the runways are being repaired," the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Johannes Van Der Klaauw, said in a statement.
The whole point of bombing the airport is to keep the other guys from using it. If the Saudis stop bombing, the Houthis and Iranians will indeed repair the airport, and use the pretext of "humanitarian relief" as a cover to bring in weapons and ammo. Either the UN is stupid and doesn't understand this, or the UN is venal and does...
"I strongly urge the coalition to stop targeting Sanaa international airport and to preserve this important lifeline - and all other airports and seaports - so that humanitarians can reach all those affected by the armed conflict in Yemen."

A Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes in Yemen to drive back Iranian-allied Houthi rebels.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Most chowder and marching societies
Are loud and eschew the proprieties,
But not the UN, no --
There, dim innuendo
Enshrouds your anarchic anxieties.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-05-06 18:40  

#3  preserve this important lifeline - and all other airports and seaports -

Yep, gotta make sure they get their ammo and arms from Iran with no muss or fuss. The International Elite as implemented in the UN is the most stupid being led by the most venal.

I can't help but to start believing in the OWG conspiracy theories this is all so f***ing insane.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-05-06 16:08  

#2  I flew into the place twenty years ago, bone jarring landings and take offs.

Repaired ?

How can you tell?
Posted by: Beldar Unock4590   2015-05-06 14:16  

#1  Why not both stupid and venal????
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-05-06 01:54  

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