Where have I seen that before?
Posted on 03/26/2015 10:52:22 AM PDT by tcrlaf
As reported first thing today, while the initial phase of the military campaign against Yemen has been taking place for the past 18 hours and been exclusively one of airborne assaults by forces of the "Decisive Storm" coalition, Saudi hinted at what is coming next following reports that it had built up a massive 150,000 troop deployment on the border with Yemen.
And as expected, moments ago AP reported that Egyptian military and security officials told The Associated Press that the military intervention will go further, with a ground assault into Yemen by Egyptian, Saudi and other forces, planned once airstrikes have weakened the capabilities of the rebels.
SNIP
Three Egyptian military and security officials told The Associated Press that a coalition of countries led by Egypt and Saudi Arabia will conduct a ground invasion into Yemen once the airstrikes have sufficiently diminished the Houthis and Saleh's forces. They said the assault will be by ground from Saudi Arabia and by landings on Yemen's Red and Arabian Sea coasts.
The aim is not to occupy Yemen but to weaken the Houthis and their allies until they enter negotiations for power-sharing, the officials said
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Fox is probably covering some missing white chick.
How will they get troops there,
Water?
News_Executive 3 minutes ago
Breaking: Arab foreign ministers agree on a draft resolution to form a unified Arab military force.
Funny, last time the Egyptians were fighting in Yemen the Saudis and Jordanians were backing the Islamist on the other side.
It’s remembered as ‘Egypt’s Vietnam’...
Arm both sides and let them kill each other off!? /s
I was thinking the same thing and also how quite it even on this site about it all.
To me this is the number one story that everyone should be following and talking about.
Pretty sad when I trust Egyptian motives under Al-Sisi more than I do ‘our’ motives under Barry Hussein.
Where have I seen that before?
Yemen Post Newspaper @YemenPostNews 8 seconds ago
BREAKING: Houthis raid Al Jazeera office and close it down in Sanaa.
There is certainly A LOT of pro-Houthi activity on Twitter today. Lot’s of anti-US chatter coming from pro-Iranian a*holes all over the world on this one.
“Fox is probably covering some missing white chick”
Fox has been covering the Saudis and what they have been doing in Yemen for two days, as well as the non missing white chick and the crashed air liner.
At least on my Fox news and as per a search.
Your Fox News may be different.
Egypt, Pakistan join military campaign against Houthis
Osamah Alfakih 2 min
#Breaking #Houthi militias storming the offices of Almasdar Newspaper, Aljazeera, Suhail and Yemen Shabab TV channels #Yemen
My tagline says it all....
Can we get them to raid MSNBC?
“There is certainly A LOT of pro-Houthi activity on Twitter today. Lot’s of anti-US chatter coming from pro-Iranian a*holes all over the world on this one.”
There is so much stuff flying around on Twitter about this, that I can’t keep track of it all.
I know I’m going to miss something important, just trying to see what the latest is.
Bump for continued reading.
Conflict News ConflictNews 1 minute ago
Houthi says US & Israel being behind attack on #Yemen yesterday and KSA being a tool used to carry out airstrikes -omeisy
Same sch*t, different day...
Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish
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