Posted on 09/14/2019 7:02:21 AM PDT by LRoggy
(Moderator, if I can't excerpt the BBC, please note)
Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.
Footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant, while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield.
The fires are now under control at both facilities, state media said.
A spokesman for the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said it had deployed 10 drones in the attacks.
The military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future.
He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest operations the Houthi forces had undertaken inside Saudi Arabia and was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".
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If the Saudis didn't think it was vastly overvalued, they wouldn't have put it up for sale in the first place.
Arabs are NOT known for exemplary honesty in business. But here they over-estimated how many suckers are in the world.
Houthi drones, bought from the Iranians and flown by the CIA.
Someone, somewhere is pulling out their hair saying, “What the hell do we have to do to get a war started here.”
//A little sarcastic
It’s not technically a refinery, but it is a huge processing facility. It removes hydrogen sulfide and makes it safer to ship the crude oil.
“The solution to the problem is to kill Houthi’s,”
Are the Saudi’s the good guys?
I didn't think it's a "refinery". The Saudis ship very little to no refined fuel. Thanks for the clarification.
“The solution to the problem is to kill Houthi’s,”
Are the Saudi’s the good guys?
Damn I hate trick questions!
Bert.
You spelled it wrong. It is “Abqaiq”
Type that in to google earth or google maps and you will find a refinery in the town.
Nice information. Thanks.
Makes sense, because I've read in several places that there are very few actual refineries in the ME, that major petro exporting OPEC members have to import gasoline and refined products from other countries.
Good thing America is now energy independent. Oh wait, the dim/socialists say we shouldn’t be with their insane green policies.
Slightly better than the Iran backed Houthi’s.
"EuroTwit" seems to be an unusually appropriate handle. How're things in Tehran lately?
Well, gas prices were going down. At least around here. $1.99 gallon last week. Now $2.19. Something had to be done...
Of course they are. Let us take more loans to finance another war...
Where did I say the US would do it? I didn’t. Your username is appropriate.
Good point. Let's hope that our more violently inclined domestic Greenies don't adopt this tactic.
Saudi Arabia blaze image....
I will file that but I started to put it in my folder for “urban dwellers react to police shooting of drug dealer in hostage situation.”
Really doesn’t go there.
Therefore, 1) a few decades ago that place was nearly all foreign workers, not Saudis, so I'd need to see some solid proof it was a drone rather than duct tape and a block of C4 planted just before shift change and 2) if it was a drone strike the drones are as likely from Israel or the US to implement something Bolton cooked up as from Iran.
Remember these poor Kuwaiti babies the Germans tossed on bayonets... I mean Iraqis tossed from incubators. Or whatever.
It’s sort of like the Iran Iraq war and the Nazis vs the Soviets. You want both sides to lose.
I did choose my monicker wisely, didn’t I?
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