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Arabia
Houthi forces unleash massive missile attack on southern Saudi Arabia
2019-02-17
[AlMasdar] The Houthi
...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ...
forces unleashed a massive missile barrage on southern 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...
, today, the Yemeni group’s official media wing said in a statement.

According to the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired approximately ten domestically-made Zilzal-1 missiles towards the Qyis Mountains in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan province.

The Houthi forces claimed their missiles were targeting the Saudi Army’s positions at the Qyis Mountains, adding that their projectiles managed to hit their intended targets in the process.

This latest attack by the Houthi forces comes just 24 hours after they fired missiles towards the same mountains in southern Saudi Arabia.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Kind of like 'Watership Down' where any number more than four was Hrair.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-02-17 17:25  

#3  The missiles themselves were 'massive'. Yeah, that's the ticket...
Posted by: Raj   2019-02-17 10:18  

#2  When 'massive' becomes nuclear or radiological civilization needs to start worrying.
Posted by: jpal   2019-02-17 09:08  

#1  MASSIVE = 10?
Posted by: Frank G   2019-02-17 08:26  

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