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Arabia
Houthi forces target Saudi airbase for 2nd time in last 24 hours
2021-03-17
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Tuesday, 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 Ansarallah Movement (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...
forces) announced the targeting of the King Khalid Airbase in Khamis Mushait, 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...
, marking the second time in the last 24 hours that they have launched an attack on this installation.The front man for the Ansarallah-aligned Yemeni armed forces, Yahya Sare’e, said: "The air force targeted the King Khalid Airbase in Khamis Mushait with a Qasef 2k plane at dawn today, Tuesday, and the hit was accurate."

"This targeting comes as part of the response to the escalation of the aggression and its comprehensive siege on our country," Sare’e added in a tweet on his Twitter account.

Earlier in the day, the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen announced the interception and destruction of a booby-trapped drone launched by the Ansarallah Movement towards the city of Khamis Mushait.

The coalition said in a statement that its forces "are taking operational measures to neutralize and destroy sources of threat," stressing that its operations "are in accordance with international humanitarian law and its customary rules."

On Monday, the Arab coalition stated that it had destroyed a fortified cache of ballistic missiles and launchers in Yemen’s Sa’ada Governorate, which is located along the southern border of Saudi Arabia.

Prior to this announcement by the Arab Coalition, the Ansarallah Movement said they bombed both the King Khalid Airbase and Abha Airport.



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