Posted on 03/25/2015 9:02:50 PM PDT by kristinn
Saudi deploys 100 fighter jets, 150,000 soldiers for anti-Houthi campaign.
Also from Al Arabiya:
UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan Deploy Warplanes Against Houthis
The UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan have deployed fighter jets to join the Saudi air force in the ongoing air campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Al Arabiya News Chanel reported.
The UAE has deployed 30 fighter jets, Bahrain 15, Kuwait 15, Qatar 10 and Jordan 6 warplanes, according to the news channel.
Pakistan and Egypt are also taking part in the military campaign, contribution with air and naval forces.
Al Arabiya said Egypt, Pakistan and Sudan have also expressed readiness to contribute ground troops against the Houthis.
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A beginning, of what we'll see.
Contrary to some of the anti Obama comments, I'm confident our CIC will be successful "leading from behind".
Whether dragging our behind, or far behind, that's beyond my pay scale. Ask an expert.
I’m with you. I need a program to keep all the actors straight.
Surviving Mideast leaders have stuck a fork in the US and pronounced it "Done." Obama has achieved yet another of his goals: to make the US powerless as an international force.
Seems they have given up on the Obama/Jarett axis and have decided to do it themselves
Agreed — SA first and then Israel. I suspect that the Saudis have procured their own bomb from Pakistan and may get help from Israel.
Looks like a sniper’s rifle.
Does getting off their camel buttz include the recent bombing run in Libya after the group of Egyptian Christians were publically executed in Libya by ISIL supporters? Actually, I was surprised that they took any action for Christians.
That was the Egyptians who retaliated in Libya for the murder of Egyptian Christians.
Al Sisi of Egypt has broken new ground for an Egyptian President, for relations with their Coptic Christian community. He was the first ever to go to a Christian Church on Christmas, to offer good wishes.
The Saudis don’t allow Christian churches to even exist in their country.
Glad to hear Al Sisi is improving relations with Christians. I can’t wait to see if Saudi Arabia ever slaps down their Wahabbi clerics and pernicious funding of Madrassas world wide.
The UAE at least made air strikes against Libya jihadist targets, and those attacks weren’t run by the Soetero regime in advance, taking him and his fellow criminals by surprise. That’ll teach him to leave his wide-open Blackberry in the car in the golf course parking lot.
from five weeks ago — Has Iran Conquered Yemen?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3255563/posts
from January — Yemeni rebels hold president ‘captive’ at his house
(+captured base housing ballistic missiles)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3249103/posts
Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea [2008]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2145621/posts
Iran Has Ballistic Missile That Poses Threat to United States
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3249787/posts
Iranian ‘diplomat’ caught gathering intel on Israeli embassy flees Uruguay
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3255418/posts
Egypt seizes Bab el Mandeb ahead of Iran. Saudis bomb Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis. US launches air strikes over Tikrit
[Debka, but nice map]
http://www.debka.com/article/24487/Egypt-seizes-Bab-el-Mandeb-ahead-of-Iran-Saudis-bomb-Iran-backed-Yemeni-Houthis-US-launches-air-strikes-over-Tikrit
http://www.debka.com/dynmedia/photos/2015/03/26/src/Yemen3_1.jpg
Rejected by Iran-backed Yemeni rebels, Obama now supports Saudi-led coalition’s war
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/26/obama-backs-saudi-attack-in-yemen-but-only-because-overtures-to-iran-backed-rebels-were-rejected/
Yemen’s president arrives in Saudi Arabia
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/26/iran-yemen-airstrikes/70475038/
Iran’s Zarif urges immediate end to Saudi attacks on Yemen
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/26/403426/Riyadh-must-end-Yemen-attack-Iran
Iran, Russia demand immediate halt to Saudi-led intervention in Yemen
http://rt.com/news/244373-iran-yemen-saudi-airstrikes/
A Trail of Bullet Casings Leads From Africa’s Wars to Iran [2013]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2977181/posts
Iran, Sudan Race to Control West Africa [2013]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3039374/posts
Iran’s Africa Fiasco [2011]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2680453/posts
The Islamic Republic of Sudan? [2010]
(Does Iran Have a New Terrorist Weapons Factory in Sudan?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2532181/posts
Yemeni Officials Facilitating Iranian Missile Shipments? [2009]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2370225/posts
Arab-parast president: Iran and Sudan two pillars of the arabs’ culture [2006]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1621345/posts
China supplies arms to Iran, Sudan (China, the mother of autocracy) [2005]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1430224/posts
A few little revolts by a few left here and there DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A NATION BEING THERE!! Get real. Israel as a nation was totally done by 135 AD, completely!!! They did not reform until 1948. They were not a nation. Get into real history books. The one called the Bible should help you a bit.
They were in exile from 135 AD, not 600 AD. Rome crush Israel in the final revolt of 135 AD. THAT is when the Romans stuck the name that we are stuck with today hearing, PALESTINE!!! on the country there. They also stuck another name on Jerusalem, but that did not stick like Palestine did. 135 AD. Just keep repeating that date. THAT is when Israel was destroyed final. Not 600 AD. A few revolts by a very very few little groups of zealots does not constitute a nation at war.
I say we just sit back and let the Arabs fight it out amongst themselves. If one side or the other gets too big we keep a close eye on them. We should also let Israel know that we will not criticize them for doing whatever they need to defend themselves up to and including using nuclear weapons against Iran.
Hopefully if Iran has/gets nukes they will attempt to launch from Mecca and Israel will make Mecca disappear.
Well...that will make oil prices go up with US domestic production becoming affordable and “needed” again!
I do remember concern in the 1980s over Iran and shipping. This is same issue here, you re right.
Wow What f’ing mess war makes. Thanks for the reality check.
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