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2024-12-28 Arabia

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Posted by badanov 2024-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 Israeli airstrikes hit a Yemen airport as a jet with hundreds onboard was landing, UN official says
Of course, left unstated is why that particular Yemen airport is still open for business & was not (some months ago) put out of commission permanently and completely. Does Houthi held territory still have an operating electric grid? Etc.

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-12-28 05:31|| 2024-12-28 05:31|| Front Page Top

#2 80 years ago today AP news item 28 Dec 1944
Moscow - Doomed Nazi garrison reeled backwards in the smoke-fill streets of western Budapest today but clung with suicidal resistance to positions in the eastern section of the capital... "The Russians are now attacking from the southeast, northeast and west," the broadcast said.)
The German and Hungarian defenders were reported to have already been denied the use of one of the two remaining airports Please turn to Page Three

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-12-28 05:43|| 2024-12-28 05:43|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Israeli attackers really want to hurt the Houthis they should fire-bomb the Khat fields...

Posted by 3dc 2024-12-28 06:53|| 2024-12-28 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 'I wasn't sure I could survive' Israeli attack on Yemen's Sana'a Airport, WHO chief says
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the explosions happened very close to where he was sitting.

Drama Queen

Posted by Frank G 2024-12-28 08:10|| 2024-12-28 08:10|| Front Page Top

Anti-Houthi Tribal Militiaman in Yemen using an M48 (Yugoslav Kar98k/M24/Gewehr 98 clone) rifle [2021] pic.twitter.com/gtrGtDsL2L
— POV combat footage (@Zoma3mk) December 28, 2024

Posted by badanov 2024-12-28 21:25|| 2024-12-28 21:25|| Front Page Top

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