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Coalition: Evidence indicates Iranian arms used in Saudi attack
Saudi Gazette ^
| September 16, 2019
| Staff
Posted on 09/16/2019 3:55:26 PM PDT by PA Engineer
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To: PA Engineer
The Saudis spend billions and billions acquiring arms, mostly from US arms manufacturers. This includes defense equipment. How come they failed so completely in defending their most important oil installations? Why is that?
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:16:41 PM PDT
by
RAldrich
If we dont know who launched the missiles and where they were launched from we are totally inept.....
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:21:53 PM PDT
by
TnTnTn
To: Sacajaweau
When Hillary Clinton has the same standard of the law applied to her as lets say that navy submariner who took a picture of his bunk bed.
I don't think any American's should fight to maintain this status quo. Two levels of justice, access and what not. Its a whole lot of Baloney - we should fight to defend the corrupt deep state uniparty by attacking Iran because Iran attacked Saudi Arabia - just when we've pretty much become energy independent. Yeah I guess I just don't care that region has been noting but a source of avoidable trouble for the US for a long time. Now we've spent trillions, lost thousands of lives and killed hundreds of thousands. The mideast is Kafkaesque nightmare.
We've sold the Saudi's lots of weapons over the years perhaps they should use some of them.
Tough to say over the years who is responsible for more terrorism Iran directly or Saudi Arabia with its funding of madrasas through out the world - oh and 9/11.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:44:13 PM PDT
by
datricker
(Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
To: RAldrich
The Saudis spend billions and billions acquiring arms, mostly from US arms manufacturers. This includes defense equipment. How come they failed so completely in defending their most important oil installations? Why is that?
First, they have far more important installations. These two facilities are a fraction of what they have. Second, I think they lacked imagination.
I posted this on another thread:
You are able to discern the difference in severity of the situation had these missiles been fired from Iranian territory correct? The Saudis bomb Yemen all the time, thats not an escalation.
Go to google earth and study Saudi Arabia (SA) and the surrounding geography. I am intimately aware of both the Khurais and Abqaiq GOSPS. There are multiple in each field. I have been to each one and the surrounding fields.
The Yemen and Saudi boarder is porous.
Look for the old Riyadh highway from Khurais to Hofuf and then Abqaiq. I know the attacks came from the west northwest. I have commented on it in other threads. Khurais is remote with some SA air assets in the area. Beyond that it is easy for Iranian "boots on the ground" to attack both facilities and then disappear with logistical support from the Houthis and potentially tribal support in Hofuf.
The NG tanks were low hanging fruit, however ingenious. It did not take sophisticated weapons to penetrate a pressurize vessel and ignite the gas. SA at one time flared all the gas until they began gathering it for desalination, electric power and export via a new parallel NG line in the east west pipeline corridor to Yanbu. We'll never know, however I would not be surprised that internal security was lax and unimaginative.
SA can easily start production again by flaring it. The flares are still there. The repairs will take place quickly. Anyone that has worked in Kingdom with Aramco knows this.
The "missiles" could have been fired from Iranian territory, however I believe Iran launched them in country with the help of the Houthis. Either way it is till Iran. Launched from Iran or smuggled into Hofuf. The attack on Khurais was the biggest tell. I don't expect the US or SA to reveal all of their intel. I do expect to see a lot of beheadings in the coming months.
Launched from within SA by Iran would be a major escalation. I can understand why they don't want the real truth to come out if that is the case.
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posted on
09/16/2019 6:08:30 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: PA Engineer
Beware the silent one.......China.
To: Jim Noble
“Speaking of nut jobs - what you are talking about would start a fire that would burn for 100 years.”
“Speaking of nutjobs”; are YOU talking about the fire that started fifteen hundred years ago?
To: PA Engineer; All
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posted on
09/16/2019 9:30:24 PM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
To: PA Engineer
Like the “strait” of Hormuz????
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posted on
09/17/2019 3:32:27 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: PA Engineer
Let’s send our young men and women off to die over oil they don’t even use.
Let the Iranian people topple the mullahs and take back their land.
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posted on
09/18/2019 1:36:52 AM PDT
by
free_life
(If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
To: PA Engineer
Retaliate against Iran. They are behind it. Probably funded it.
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:54:34 AM PDT
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Rapscallion
(If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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