Yemen war: Houthi rebels claim mass capture of Saudi troops

Bbc ^

[SunkenCiv]

• How Egypt’s Gas Warfare in Yemen led to Israel’s Preemptive Air Assault in the 1967 Six Day War | Monday, 5 June 2017

[rbg81]

Everyone who works with them seems to come away with an impression of laziness and ineptitude. Also, they don’t plan well.

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Some of them do rise to the challenge after getting kicked n the a$$ a bit. But they are in the minority and they never really get good.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3782137/posts?page=21#21

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3782145/posts?page=22#22

[AdmSmith]

add this:

A prominent bodyguard of King Salman has been shot and killed by a friend on Saturday night, the official Saudi news agency reported.

The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday that Maj. Gen. Abdulaziz Al Fagham has been shot and killed in a dispute with his friend Mamdouh Bin Meshaal Al Ali, in Jeddah.

https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/king-salmans-personal-bodyguard-shot-dead-in-a-dispute-in-saudi-arabia-1.1569735957589

What was the relationship between al Fagham and Crown prince MbS?

Probably bad, as MbS wanted to replace him, there are too many rumors in KSA now, we have to wait a few hours.

[PIF]

Notes from the link:
53 M1A2S. 20 were lost in Yemen

M60A3 (Patton) At least 37 are visually confirmed as being destroyed in Yemen.

AMX-30SA (French tank) In reserve. Though at least 3 are visually confirmed as being destroyed in Yemen.

M2 Bradley At least 57 lost in Yemen.

M113 At least 61 visually confirmed as destroyed in Yemen.

Oshkosh M-ATV several dozen have been destroyed in Yemen. With many being donated to Pro-Hadi forces and subsequently getting destroyed in fighting.

[nuconvert]

According to the conversation, the pic of the Toyota trucks are old photos. The one of the troops sitting on the ground, are supposedly new.

I’m wondering if the “thousands” captured is more like hundreds. They love to exaggerate.

[AdmSmith]

Re Death of the bodyguard

This is getting weird

a picture of the assumed killer (red cross) and the killed circe

source:
https://twitter.com/layl_a_/status/1178216430606655488

A coup d’état?

Is the king or MbS still around?

[PIF]

According to one report MbS wanted the killed guy gone ...

[AdmSmith]

A bodyguard knows a lot of secrets, perhaps someone suggested Clear Memory?

[AdmSmith]

05MAR2018

Rumours grow of rift between Saudi king and crown prince. King Salman said to have been angered by recent moves by Prince Mohammed against him.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/05/fears-grow-of-rift-between-saudi-king-salman-and-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman

[AdmSmith]

Was the assumed killer not the killer, but was killed together with Major General Abdulaziz al-Fagham?

Check this later: https://twitter.com/MohammedAWADDA

[SE Mom]

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1561526/saudi-arabia

Massive fire at Saudi rail station in Jeddah. “No injuries”...

[caver]

That was my thought too.

[bert]

The Saudis are American Allies

To ask such a question is to illustrate gross ignorance.

[bert]

The fool, the ignorant fool, forgets that the Saudi’s have been Americaan allies for many many decades

[caver]

Yea, right....

[SunkenCiv]

...has been shot and killed in a dispute with his friend...

And a nice, solid friendship it is, er, was. Thanks AdmSmith.

[AdmSmith]

around the time of the killing on Saturday night, Saudi officials reached out to regional intelligence sources to ask for urgent help in gathering and analyzing information about a number of Saudi citizens, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/world/middleeast/saudi-bodyguard-shooting.html

[ArcadeQuarters]

Inbreeding generally doesn’t create geniuses.

[Jim Noble]

And should have from his point view

And we should have let him.

I had so many tabletop plan posts here in September and October of 2001.

My major scenario had the idiot Bush flying to New Delhi right after his 9/16 speech to Congress requesting a Declaration of War on SA and Pakistan, and going from India to Baghdad, sending Saddam south to Riyadh (which wouid have taken him about ten minutes) and India right through Lahore to the tribal areas and Karachi to Quetta with US air support and SOF guidance while we raised the 80-division occupation force we needed.

Nothing is more certain than the demise of the House of Saud. Half the princes in Switzerland, the other half's heads on poles ringing Mecca.

This could have happened with our assistance, Iraq in control of the peninsula (and in a permanent alliance with the US), Pakistan abolished. and Afghanistan neutralized.

The very idea of an alliance with SA is repulsive. Not because the House of Saud is repulsive (although they are) but because they are weak.

If we are going to keep f***ing around over there, we need strong allies - which means brutal nominally-Islamic dictators, who do what they want with their women and worship their moon god however they want.

We have this fetish of making alliances with the weak instead of the strong, believing (falsely) that having a CIA station chief, a US ambassador, and unlimited gay pornography can turn the weak strong.

Nothing is more of a threat to our position in the world than this idealistic nonsense.