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2024-07-06 Arabia

More strikes by US and British invaders hit Yemen

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Posted by Fred 2024-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 Anyone know what those twin guns in the pic are?

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-07-06 04:53|| 2024-07-06 04:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I would have guessed twin Lewis guns, without the disc magazines.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-06 08:52|| 2024-07-06 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Wasn't the skull and bones the emblem of the Lafayette Escadrille?

Posted by Ulailet+Thud3602 2024-07-06 09:07|| 2024-07-06 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Vickers?

Posted by Frank G 2024-07-06 09:07|| 2024-07-06 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Ho D Ho Yemen? Shouldn't that be Hi D Ho Yemen?

Posted by Mercutio 2024-07-06 09:20|| 2024-07-06 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Vintage photo circa 1918 of a American two seat fighter aircraft with Naval airmen practising aerial target practice with a rear mounted Lewis machine gun

Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-06 09:25|| 2024-07-06 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 The aftermath of yesterday's RADAR strike news.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-06 10:21|| 2024-07-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Webley-Vickers 50.80?

Posted by SteveS 2024-07-06 11:45|| 2024-07-06 11:45|| Front Page Top

#9 The Houthi movement itself began in the nineteen nineties when a small knot of insurgents calling themselves "the Believing Youth" was created under the leadership of Hussein Badr al Din al Houthi. The politico-religious movement, active in Amran and Sa'ada provinces, was determined to seek regional autonomy and revive Zaidi shiism, a sect whose dominant belief is that only descendants of the Prophet Mohammad can be legitimate Muslim rulers. (The Hashimite Imamate ruled Yemen for centuries before a coup ended its rein in 1962.) The Zaidi opposed Yemen President Saleh; though he was a member of the sect, he did not have the Hashimite bloodline required to assume leadership. In addition, the Houthi believed that for decades the Zaidi had been marginalized economically, and thus the movement was determined to take a bigger bite of Yemen's (minuscule) economic pie. And now there is practically no pie, and continued air attacks will ensure that once again Yemen will be rushing pell-mell backward to the 14th century.

Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-07-06 12:49|| 2024-07-06 12:49|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ "But, at least we got ~~green drool~~ Khat!"

Posted by Frank G 2024-07-06 13:08|| 2024-07-06 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 yemen is a distraction. iran is the enemy. occupy chabahar

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-07-06 15:11|| 2024-07-06 15:11|| Front Page Top

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