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2025-01-17 Arabia

Mysterious airstrip being built on Yemeni island nears completion, satellite photos show

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-17 2025-01-17 02:50|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ] Top

#1 The biggest danger would be the fuel storage area.
It's not an airfield if you can't refuel there.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-01-17 08:48|| 2025-01-17 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Airstrip being built on Yemeni island near shipping route; ‘I LOVE UAE’ spelled in dirt

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-17 11:50|| 2025-01-17 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Unknown Yemeni facts:
The Muslim Brotherhood, though born in Egypt, really didn't amount to much. When Colonel Nasser took over in Egypt he attacked the organization's center. So, many Egyptian brothers migrated to Yemen, but at first there was no well-organized Brotherhood chapter to speak of. Ironically, the Ikhwan only evolved years later as a result of the visit of Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Zubairi. Unlike most Muslim Brothers who were Sunni Arabs, Zubaairi was Shia, and he founded the Shiite Hizbullah movement in a town near Sanaa, Yemen, in 1965. It was soon transposed to Lebanon, while the Shiite Houthi revolt festered in Yemen. And the rest is history.

Posted by Glusomp Spealet4328 2025-01-17 18:05|| 2025-01-17 18:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Incoming in...3...2...1...

Posted by Crusader 2025-01-17 20:02|| 2025-01-17 20:02|| Front Page Top

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