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Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100
2019-09-03
[IsraelTimes] 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...
i medics say they pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a 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...
rebel-run detention center that was hit a day earlier by Saudi-led coalition Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens.

It is the deadliest such attack so far this year in a stalemated four-year war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, thrust millions to the brink of famine and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Saudi-led coalition, which has fought the Iran-backed Houthis since 2015, has faced international criticism for airstrikes that have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties, killing thousands of civilians.

By the early afternoon, 86 bodies had been pulled from the ruins of a building complex in southwestern Dhamar province, originally a college but converted by the Houthi rebels to a detention center, Yemen’s Red Islamic Thingy says.

There were around 170 detainees at the facility when the airstrikes hit on Sunday. The International Committee for the Red Thingy says 40 maimed are being treated for injuries while the rest are presumed dead, and that it will likely take days to recover all the bodies. The Houthis say the detainees were captured forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government, and that both the Red Thingy and the coalition knew detainees were being held there.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  War X Abdul Factor = Deadly Accidents

The accident is the byproduct of a condition multiplied by the dangerous nature of mass murdering weapons. A war is the fault of the initiators.

The houthis attack Saudi Arabia, they aggregate their political prisoners and detainees along with weapon stockpiles, their own higher ranks into hospital, college and other buildings. They are responsible for the coalition strikes.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-03 02:29  

#1  Just call them collateral damage, and it's all justified.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-09-03 00:30  

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