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2025-02-23 Arabia

US officials: Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at US fighter jet and drone this week, but missed

[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...
’s 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...
s launched surface-to-air missiles at an American fighter jet and MQ-9 Reaper drone this week, but did not hit either, two US officials tells Rooters.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, do not specify if the attacks occurred over the Red Sea or Yemen itself.

One says the incidents could suggest the Houthis were improving their targeting capabilities.

Abdul Malik al-Houthi, who leads the Iran-backed group, said in a televised speech on Feb. 13 that the Houthis would intervene with missiles and drones and attack vessels in the Red Sea if the United States and Israel tried to remove Paleostinians from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
by force.

US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
has infuriated the Arab world with a plan to permanently displace Paleostinians from Gaza and take over the enclave to turn it into a beach resort.

The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships off Yemen since November 2023 in support of Gaza’s Palestinian terror groups fighting Israel, disrupting global shipping.

The Iran-backed movement, which controls northern Yemen, has also frequently fired missiles and drones at Israel over the past year.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 2025-02-23 03:24|| || Front Page|| [11169 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 I guess they don’t understand yet that the next attack will not include a week’s warning and a flight plan.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-23 09:23|| 2025-02-23 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 One says the incidents could suggest the Houthis were improving their targeting capabilities.

I dunno, Anonymous Guy. Being 0 for 2 is generally not the sign of an upward trend. I can understand missing the fighter. They are fast, maneuverable, and have counter-measures. Drones are slow and defenseless, but they still missed.

This "could suggest" journalistic idiom is becoming both tiresome and over-used.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-23 10:48|| 2025-02-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Wouldn’t this be a great place to send the Paleo’s in Gaza? It is already a shithole so they’ll feel right at home and the locals are crazy loco so they’ll fit right in. It’s a worthless place no one wants full of people no one cares about…perfect!

Posted by Remoteman 2025-02-23 12:20|| 2025-02-23 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Re #3: And they're brother Arabs, and Muslims. So the Houthis should welcome them with open arms.

Posted by Rambler 2025-02-23 12:49|| 2025-02-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 ^3, 4

Gazans are 95%+ Sunni
Houthis are 99%+ Shia

they might cooperate on some issues but things would soon get, uh, complicated

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-23 13:09|| 2025-02-23 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, I thought of the Shia/Sunni split right after I posted it.
So some Sunni Arab country should welcome the Gazans, right? Right?

Posted by Rambler 2025-02-23 13:24|| 2025-02-23 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 They’re both taking Iran’s money — they’ll be fine. And if they’re not, that’s fine with me. Maybe both will learn something useful from the experience.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 14:18|| 2025-02-23 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 The Iran dollars may be hard to come by based on what Trump and Musk are doing. The USAID spigot is mostly shut. There is a large amount of State Dept “anti-terrorism” funds going weekly to the Taliban, but if Trump cranks down on the Iranian sanctions again, the Mullah’s will have a tough time making payroll on the home front, yet alone for the exterior jihadi enterprise.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-23 14:46|| 2025-02-23 14:46|| Front Page Top

#9 What would hurt Iran even harder is if we can get oil back to around $60.barrel again.

If everything goes right oil production in the USA ought to go up 1M bar/day by late summer. Depending on demand and OPEC action, that might do it.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-23 16:27|| 2025-02-23 16:27|| Front Page Top

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