Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, citing a military official, said on Monday that the short-range Badr-1 ballistic missile had targeted the oil facilities that belong to energy giant Aramco in the Saudi border province of Jizan, adding that the projectile had hit the designated target in the region with great precision.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
Saudi media, citing the country’s military authorities, claimed that Saudi air defense systems had intercepted the missile in the skies over the region.
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...
often claims that it intercepts incoming Yemeni missiles, but a close study of evidence by The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
last year clearly suggested that in one of the most high-profile of such Yemeni missile attacks, the projectile, launched deep into Saudi territory, had in fact landed unimpeded, bypassing American-made Patriot missiles and potentially other defenses used by Riyadh. Saudi Arabia claimed that it had foiled that attack, which targeted the Riyadh airport.