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Attack on Saudi oil terminal leaves fuel tank on fire after wave of Houthi drones targets nearby cities
RT ^ | 3-26-21 | RT

Posted on 03/26/2021 12:09:16 PM PDT by dynachrome

An attack on an oil terminal on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast set one fuel tank ablaze, the country’s petroleum ministry said, after several Houthi drones reportedly targeted two cities not far from the border with Yemen. A projectile struck an oil terminal in Jizan, a port on the Red Sea north of the Saudi-Yemen border, on Friday, igniting a fire but resulting in no casualties, according to a statement from the Saudi Oil Ministry.

“The kingdom condemns this cowardly attack directed against vital installations, which does not target the kingdom only, but also targets the security of petroleum exports, the stability of energy supplies to the world, and the freedom of global trade,” the ministry said.

Unverified video footage has circulated online purporting to show the blaze in progress.

(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: attack; houthi; iran; obamalegacy; refinery; saudi
Some videos at the RT site.
1 posted on 03/26/2021 12:09:16 PM PDT by dynachrome
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2 posted on 03/26/2021 12:13:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: dynachrome

Time to wipe out some Houthis!


3 posted on 03/26/2021 12:13:45 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

*** Time to wipe out some Houthis! ***

Because killing Yemen’s children by blocking food, medicine, and bombing clean water sources is insufficient?


4 posted on 03/26/2021 12:22:34 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Why?
Dead Sunnis, dead Shias, both are good things.

I am more concerned for the implications of mass attacks by cheap drones. We need to study this and deploy counter measures.


5 posted on 03/26/2021 12:25:15 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: sockmonkey

Iran is backing the Houthis.

Is that a positive sign?


6 posted on 03/26/2021 12:38:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Attack on Saudi oil terminal leaves fuel tank on fire after wave of Houthi IRANIAN drones targets nearby cities
7 posted on 03/26/2021 12:41:59 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: dynachrome

Isn’t this the group the Biden regime took off the terror group list? I guess this is part of making energy prices skyrocket to save the planet.


8 posted on 03/26/2021 2:51:30 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: ETCM

CIA drones!


9 posted on 03/26/2021 3:22:18 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: ConservativeMind

*** Iran is backing the Houthis. ***

You need to change your FR moniker.


10 posted on 03/26/2021 5:46:47 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: sockmonkey

Do you believe in self-defense?

If someone comes up to your home to destroy it or kill you, do you feel justified using deadly force?

Inquiring minds want to know what a liberal professes he’d do.


11 posted on 03/26/2021 5:50:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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*** Inquiring minds want to know what a liberal professes he’d do. ***

I wouldn’t know what a liberal would do. I am an American Conservative.

Me:
True conservatives have always resisted the imperial and military impulse: it drains the treasury, curtails domestic liberties, breaks down families, and vulgarizes culture.

I do not support military actions and sanctions that to steal a phrase from HRC, “will bring them to their heel”.

As to your self defense mention, KSA is the aggressor in Yemen.


12 posted on 03/26/2021 6:37:19 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Good video from 2016 on the US involvement in Sovereign Secular Syria.

https://youtu.be/mfWdNI096ho


13 posted on 03/26/2021 7:10:50 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: dynachrome

HOw many Billions have the Saudi’s spent on defense?
Still can not take care of the Houthi’s?
I have heard despite spending billions and forever practicing, the Saudi military is about as ready for trouble as the police dept on The Dukes of Hazzard.


14 posted on 03/27/2021 4:58:43 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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