Posted on 03/25/2015 4:12:08 PM PDT by kristinn
US officials confirm to @NBCNews that Saudi Arabia has started bombing rebel positions inside #Yemen. NO indication of troops crossing in.
The question is who are they shooting at? The Houthis, backed by the mullahs in Iran? AQAP? ISIS? All the players mentioned in the report are Sunni. Barky has partnered up with Iran against ISIS. He’s caved in on the nuke talks. Are we to believe that he is supporting an attack on Iranian puppets? Or have the mullahs sold out the Houthis to give Barky the appearance of a Mid East success? That would explain Earnest’s ridiculous statements at today’s press briefing about Yemen still being a success.
Even Al Jazeera pick up the story
Al-Jubeir told reporters that a 10-country coalition had joined in the military campaign in a bid “to protect and defend the legitimate government” of Yemen President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
He told reporters that Washington was not participating in the military operation, but U.S. officials said the United States was providing support to Saudi Arabia as it carries military operation in Yemen, according to Al Arabiya News.
Al Arabiya News Channel said Egypt was taking part in the coalition with ground, naval and air forces.
The Saudi-led military coalition declares Yemen’s airspace as “rrestricted area.”
The military operation came shortly after Arab Gulf states, barring Oman, announced that they have decided to “repel Houthi aggression” in neighboring Yemen, following a request from the country’s President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
In their joint statement Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait said they “decided to repel Houthi militias, al-Qaeda and ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] in the country.”
How is this possible? Obama said Yemen was one of his great success stories.
Rev 17:12”And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings”... soon!
Exactly...
We’re there now. It’s a slow roll start.
Lindsey Graham @GrahamBlog 5m5 minutes ago
This is going to be the first of many events where the Sunni Arabs push back against Iranian influence. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/saudi-ambassador-saudi-arabia-begun-military-operations-yemen-29911259 …
Yes.
Careful. This is shaping up as shia v. sunni. Saudi is sunni like al qaeda and islamic state, so saudi will leave them alone. They are allies against iran, syria, houthis, and hezbollah.
Obama might have stumbled on an unintentionally brilliant way to keep the US out of it. Since no country in the world trusts us any more, none of the combatants will ask for our help...
OUCH anybody been at Twitter YET LOL!
Former advisor to yemeni govt says on al jazeera the americans “sold them out”. does “US backed” mean much anymore?
I wouldn’t trust that airhead to take even a simple order.
Jordan is still in one piece.
When was the last time Saudi even lit a Firecracker?
This ten has nothing to do with the other.
-—I hope everyone filled their gas tanks.-——
Why....?
Currently the country is flush with oil....
Hey Bambam, how’s Yemen working out as a Counter-Terror ‘Model’ now?
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