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Yemen's Houthis launch missile toward Saudi holy city, coalition says [Mecca]
Reuters ^ | October 28, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 10/28/2016 6:00:16 AM PDT by C19fan

Yemen's Houthi militia launched a ballistic missile toward Mecca on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen's civil war on behalf of the government said in a statement.

Coalition forces destroyed the missile 65 km (40 miles) from the holy city before it could do any damage, and retaliated against the launch site inside Yemen, said the statement, carried on the state news agency SPA. Mecca is home to the most sacred sites in Islam, including the Grand Mosque.

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


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KEYWORDS: mecca; yemen
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To: dp0622

The Iranians have forbidden thier people from performing the hadj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

The Iranians are promoting the shrine at Karbala (in Iraq) over Mecca. Note here, the Sunni-Shia split was born at the Battle of Karbala, the Iranians (Shia’s) want to make the site of the Sunni-Shia split the holiest place for Shia Muslims.

Tension will ever escalate between the Saudi’s and Iranians from here.

If you believe the bible then Edom (Saudi Arabia) will become an object of horror, burn like tar and nobody will go there.


21 posted on 10/28/2016 7:16:58 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Come Lord!


22 posted on 10/28/2016 7:24:23 AM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: Fitzy_888

Bkmrk.


23 posted on 10/28/2016 7:29:49 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Fitzy_888

Fascinating video you posted that convincingly makes the case that today’s biblically doomed “Mystery Babylon” is Saudi Arabia, Not New York or Vatican Rome.

Most thorough presentation on the topic I’ve yet seen.

Thanks for posting this!

RE: “Mecca is mystery Babylon and it will be destroyed by the King of the Medes (Iran). Yemen is Iran’s proxy.

Babylon the Great & The Caliph Antichrist - Armageddon News
https://youtu.be/uY20IFaWlsQ


24 posted on 10/28/2016 7:47:14 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: C19fan

Iran has been banned from Hajj again.

The Iranian Shia are thus excluded from practicing one of the five pillars of Islam.

The first ban was in the early 70’s after Iran sent armed Hajjis to capture Mecca. The gambit was countered and the ban was later removed.


25 posted on 10/28/2016 7:51:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: C19fan

If Mecca goes, Islam delenda est. But conventional warheads are not enough.


26 posted on 10/28/2016 8:08:45 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Fitzy_888
If you believe the bible then Edom (Saudi Arabia) will become an object of horror, burn like tar and nobody will go there.

And then there's Damascus...

Isaiah 17:1 (KJV) The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

27 posted on 10/28/2016 8:12:17 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Fitzy_888

You got it! Don’t agree with them on the timing of the rapture though based on YEARS of study on this topic through precept upon precept of scripture. But not getting off into that here. But I do agree on Mecca and Mystery Babylon.


28 posted on 10/28/2016 8:23:28 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Soon everything in America will be "free", except it's people.)
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To: C19fan

The U.S. probably destroyed the missile in flight.

This is what Patriot Missile batteries (”Star Wars”) and Aegis systems do, I think. (Please correct me, military guys.)

Who has anti-missile capabilities in the Middle East? Us and Israel, I think.

Wow.


29 posted on 10/28/2016 8:27:05 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("BECAUSE YOU'D BE IN JAIL")
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To: C19fan

Saudi Arabia began pursuing missile defense capability when Iraq fired Scud ballistic missiles missiles against the coalition military targets stationed in the Kingdom. On January 17, 1991, an Iraqi Scud was intercepted by a US Patriot missile defense system in Saudi Arabia. This event marked the first anti-ballistic missile fired in combat during the Gulf War. [3]  By enhancing its security architecture through missile defense, Saudi Arabia seeks to consolidate its place as a regional leader, protect its homeland, and safeguard its regional allies to further cooperation in the Arabian Gulf.[4]

In 1991, Saudi Arabia became the first Middle East customer of the Patriot missile system and maintains the largest missile defense force in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia’s ballistic missile defense capability is  designed to defend against its primary adversary: Iran.

Capabilities

Patriot PAC-2
Patriot PAC-3
MIM-23 Hawk

http://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/intl-cooperation/saudi-arabia/


30 posted on 10/28/2016 8:28:57 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("BECAUSE YOU'D BE IN JAIL")
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To: AppyPappy

Actually they want Mecca replaced by a Holy site located in Eastern Iraq.


31 posted on 10/28/2016 8:55:05 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

they can’t do that!! Which way would the Muslims pray???


32 posted on 10/28/2016 9:05:45 AM PDT by halfright (Character is what a man does when nobody is watching.... Trump/Pence 2016!)
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To: halfright

Muslims should pray looking straight down into a bottomless pit, since Satan is who they really worship.

RE: “they can’t do that!! Which way would the Muslims pray???”


33 posted on 10/28/2016 9:23:38 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: C19fan

Too bad it was destroyed in-flight. I would’ve raised a glass in a toast to them (a toast... lol).


34 posted on 10/28/2016 11:11:06 AM PDT by wastedyears (precious bodily fluids)
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