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Yemeni Rebels Begin Attacking Saudi Oil Infrastructure: You Know What That Means
The Houthi rebels in Yemen, officially known as Ansurallah, have vowed to intensify rocket attacks on Saudi Arabia’s critical oil infrastructure, warning that they are now manufacturing their own ballistic missiles to achieve those aims, the Financial Times reports.
The threat comes at a time when Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have begun to increase. Just this Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s air defense system intercepted four ballistic missiles over the southwestern region of Jizan. The debris of those missiles reportedly killed one person. Just a week prior, two other missiles were launched at the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) facilities on the Red Sea.
At the beginning of April, the London-based IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center noted that the Houthis claimed to have carried out three separate rocket attacks on Aramco facilities in ten days, including an attack on a Saudi oil tanker, which suffered some damage and led to the intervention of a coalition naval vessel, which in turn repelled the attack.
The Houthis also unveiled their new Badr-1 surface-to-surface weapon system (a heavy artillery rocket system) approximately a week prior, which the rebels claimed they had used to attack Aramco facilities.
Mohammed al-Boukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political council, also told the Financial Times that these attacks were “only the beginning of the response” to the death of Houthi leader Saleh al-Samad, who was killed by Saudi air strikes in April.
“Yemenis will not pass on the death of Samad easily and they will do their best to take revenge for him,” Mr. Boukhaiti said.
Boukhaiti also dismissed allegations that Iran has supplied the Houthis with sophisticated missiles, claiming instead that the rebels have been developing and manufacturing their own rockets and drones.
“The Yemenis have added new systems for manufacturing missiles, so more missiles are targeting Saudi Arabia as a part of an escalation,” Mr. Boukhaiti also said.
The claim that Iran is responsible for the Houthis’ supply of arms is one that continues to skim the surface of mainstream discourse without being bolstered by any hard, credible evidence.
Despite this, these recent developments are raising fears that the war in Yemen may begin to spiral out of control even more so than it has already in the last three years. As even the Financial Times admits, so far into the conflict Saudi Arabia has struggled to make any decent advancement against the rebels. It is also worth noting that in recent times, the Houthis’ confidence only appears to be strengthening, and these recent attacks targeting vital Saudi infrastructure may only improve their standing in the conflict.
According to Graham Griffiths, a consultant with Control Risks Group, these Houthi-led attacks have raised concerns for the safety of employees and assets even if the Houthis cannot exact any significant damage to the Saudi-led coalition.
“This perception of the risk is likely to greatly increase if even a single strike hits a sensitive target,” Griffiths said, according to the Financial Times. “The sustained pace of the attacks allows the Houthis to demonstrate that despite three years of war, they can still retaliate against a much more powerful foe.”
Most importantly — and largely missing from any serious analysis of this conflict — is Mr. Boukhaiti’s statement to the Financial Times that the Houthis will continue these attacks on Saudi Arabia until Riyadh “stops its aggression completely.”
As far as international law is concerned, Yemen is entitled to the right to defend itself from foreign aggression, including striking directly at Saudi Arabia, which is by all accounts the principal instigator of this conflict.
One might be inclined to believe a simple solution worth pursuing would be for the Saudi-led coalition to withdraw from its aggressive and criminal war in Yemen and allow Yemenis to conduct their own affairs.
43 Comments on "Yemeni Rebels Begin Attacking Saudi Oil Infrastructure: You Know What That Means"
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:51 pm
The more Saudi oil infrastructure is destroyed, the less oil arrives in Europe, increasing dependency of Europe on Russia, reducing the options of European US vassals.
Internally EU leaders are already distancing themselves from the US.
https://www.rt.com/news/387313-us-losing-leadership-eu-mogherini/
Juncker: Putin is my friend
https://www.trouw.nl/democratie/jean-claude-juncker-poetin-is-mijn-vriend~a7236236/
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:04 pm
Iran probably full SCO member next year:
http://thesaker.is/eurasia-torn-between-war-and-peace/
An attack against Iran will mean WW3, not just a proxy war.
And Europe will not back the US, again.
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:55 pm
“…Americans in uniform have to ask themselves a very basic and yet fundamental question:
Do I want to die for Israel? Do I want to lose my job for Israel? How about my pension? Maybe just my stock options? Is it worth risking a major regional war for such a “wonderful” state?”
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/05/05/the-warmakers/#more-175661
“A lot depends on whether the US military leaders (and people!) will have the courage to ask themselves this question and, if they do, what their reply will be.”
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:58 pm
Clogg
You post that same RT article all the damn time. Its just what one out several thousand policy makers had to say. You are so desperate for evidence to fit your fantasy future..lol
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:00 pm
Madkat
Your whole crusade with the US is self servicing. Meaning, it makes you feel like a good person to stand up to what you see as bad. Even though you had no problem working and supporting the war machine with your blood, sweat and tears….You are a fake.
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:24 pm
MM, and that makes you a ‘yuge’ fake because you are still supporting “the war machine with your blood, sweat and tears…” You have to live in the Us. I don’t. You should be working to clean out DC, not me. I no longer support the Us government in any way. You do and will be.
I had no internet to get the real facts. You do. I point them out to you constantly. What are YOU doing about it? Hypocrite. Just like Davy trying to point to someone else as the guilty party and afraid to look in the mirror. Nah! Too much trouble. Easier to pretend in Mom’s basement.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:31 pm
Madkat
You are a nutty old man…Scaremongering about wars that we don’t have the oil to fight anymore. Do you just not accept peak oil? Don’t you realize when the oil starts to run short here soon. the US military will have to drift back into its side of the world. The war mongering will be over, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Davy on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:32 pm
3rd world, not only are you fake but you are a fraud. You are all talk and very little substance. I guess what can you expect with a worn out old man pushing 80.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:35 pm
Israel is not all run by Zionist like that article you posted said. And its not a racist state. Israel allows jew, Christians, Muslims, to live in Israel and visit. Jews are not even allowed to visit or live in most Muslim countries in the world. They wont even recolonize their existence. How do i know? My brother has been their twice. He is a Jesus freak..
Bloomer on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:47 pm
Another day another proxy war. People are fodder and the prize is black crude. No different than the Spanish Conquistadors lust for gold. Despite of all our technological advances, modern man has yet evolved. Its a miracle, we have so far escaped a nuclear holocaust.
onlooker on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:58 pm
Yep Bloomer but another holocaust has been ongoing since we became civilized. The social holocaust. We built our civilization rooted in injustice and inequality from the Pharaohs and Kings to a world now where 8 people own as much wealth as half the people on the planet
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:41 pm
Onlooker
Just to give you an idea of how rich those eight billionaires are. If you inherited one billion dollars, and you spent 1000 dollars a day. it would take you over 2700 years to burn through your inheritance. Jeff Bezos of Amazon could spend 1000 dollars a day for over 250k years, before he would run out of money. Longer than humans have even evolved.
onlooker on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:46 pm
Yeah, can’t take their money to the grave though,can they. And the grave is awaiting them like everyone else
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:49 pm
All this talk about WWIII when Russia and Iran have been taking it on the chin. Look guys, they will be ok. Those black eyes heal.
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:51 pm
Mm
And the US dollar is gaining strength.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:56 pm
Boat
You see the world through rose colored glasses…
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:00 pm
Mm
Try basic reality. Accept the good and the bad.
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:03 pm
Onlooker
Many of the rich give back in billions. Try a Google, you’ll be amazed.
onlooker on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:07 pm
Boat are those the same who have their money parked in tax havens around the world?
onlooker on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:07 pm
Boat are those the same who have their money parked in tax havens around the world?
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:11 pm
look at boat, bootlicking the billionaires..If you keep working hard and don’t give up, I am sure you will become one yourself one day…
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:13 pm
Those billionaires take with one hand, and give with another. Even Bono of U2 got busted hiding money in tax havens. Typical religious person. And George W Bush (911 mastermind) just had a conference with bono praising him on this charity work. Those two are thick as thieves.
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:15 pm
Yemen rebels are just another Sharia Law wanna take over the world and keep women as slaves group that need to be run through the capitalism cleanser. Much like the Clog far right groups. Scrub a dub with a wire power tool to eraticate the barnacles from the good ship capitalism.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:19 pm
Trump claims he is the healthiest president
ever?
https://imgur.com/a/sXw5GAM
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:19 pm
Onlooker
Don’t know but at some point let’s hope tax Haven trash are busted. Over 400 billion in missed taxes every year. Republicans cut IRS funding as a response.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:34 pm
Front page of German newspapers today
https://i.redd.it/3lbhyuk6n2w01.jpg
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:39 pm
Giuliani: Trump is ‘committed to’ regime change in Iran
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/giuliani-trump-iran-regime-change-570744
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 10:46 pm
Clog, mak, Jew haters
There are at least a dozen cities around the world that have larger populations than every Jew on Earth. This irrational fear of around 15 million humans is laughable.
deadly on Sun, 6th May 2018 12:51 am
The price of oil is going to keep increasing with all of the war and ongoing conflict in the ME.
Of course, they are always at each other’s throats seeking revenge for one reason or another. It never stops.
Keep lobbing those missiles at the Saudi oil infrastructure, somebody is going to make some money.
Cloggie on Sun, 6th May 2018 12:58 am
“There are at least a dozen cities around the world that have larger populations than every Jew on Earth. This irrational fear of around 15 million humans is laughable.”
Boat the egalitarian has zero understanding of the concept of power structure.
Boat has a wicket method of determining who runs the US: simply count flags on display in front yards. He noticed very few Israeli flags and a lot of Confederate flags and next concluded that “the Germans run America”.
The good people of Dresden will be surprised to learn about that little factoid.
#YouCantFixStupid
Bloomer on Sun, 6th May 2018 1:04 am
Mm, onlooker. Look I got no bone to pick with Jewish people, Americans, Muslims or any collective group of people who share common values or beliefs.
But here’s the deal. What is being exploited is the intolerance one group of people has towards another. Its the old adage rule of divide and conquer. Only when we all come together as people things will change. Our masters control us because we are divided. We the people have the power to change. We just can see it because we are blinded by prejudice, intolerance and resistance to change.
deadly on Sun, 6th May 2018 1:41 am
Everybody is fomenting discord, it’s a shame.
Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine can tell us more about how it all was wayback then, the view.
Dresden 1945
Plenty of apartments for rent, a plethora of housing available, everybody was dead. The bodies were stacked like hay.
By the time the bombing of Dresden was taking place, it was ‘we are going to get this over with and put an end to it’ mindset, the goal was to end the war and it did end.
Took a couple of nukes at Nagasaki and Hiroshima too. It was over just like that, the Japanese did learn the hard way.
The war ended in Europe and the Pacific Rim.
The Japanese were in Manchuria in the 30s raising hell. They didn’t arrive hat in hand.
The Chinese weren’t all that happy about that.
It’s Sunday, so it time to drink.
Theedrich on Sun, 6th May 2018 2:49 am
On the issue of the Dresden bombing of Feb 13-14-15, 1945: it was in the days immediately after that mass murder of about a quarter of a million innocent civilians that Franklin (the Freak) Delano Roosevelt met with the original King Saud in the Bitter Lakes region of Araby and made a blood pact between the sheik and the U.S. to back the Saudi monstrosity forever, no matter what they did, in return for Arabian oil. Hence the current Yankee military participation in the murder of Yemenis.
Cloggie on Sun, 6th May 2018 3:53 am
In 1944 my father, at a tender age of 20 at the time, was rounded up by the Germans from his small town in the East of the Netherlands…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twente
…in order to participate in the so-called Arbeitseinsatz in Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitseinsatz
He was brought into the city of Dresden a few days after the bombardment. He was never willing to talk about it.
I still cringe at the memory of my constant quarrels with my father. Me, the irritating brat, light on knowledge and pro-American to the core, against my father, whom I suspected of having pro-German sympathies, although he was a leftist-pacifist throughout his entire life.
In 1995 I was still a Churchill admirer. Seven years later, under the heavy influence of the Fortuyn revolution in the Netherlands, 9/11 and the internet and its “forbidden sources”, my understanding of WW2 and the JQ turned around 180 degrees. The relation with my father markedly improved during his last decade, culminating in the car trip to Eastern Germany and Poland in search for old memories.
Davy on Sun, 6th May 2018 4:21 am
give it a rest nedernazi. The Germans raped a continent. Many innocent Germans paid the price. Many wonderful cities destroyed. The Nazi’s destroyed them too. You can’t claim you were a victim no matter how hard you try. You people were vicious murders and thank God were put down like rabid dogs. Besides please stop the obsessive spamming of the board with your stupid WW2 nonsense and get back on topic.
Cloggie on Sun, 6th May 2018 6:13 am
The Germans raped a continent.
They didn’t, you dumb nitwit. Read your own prairie prick Jackson to verify that he couldn’t find any evidence that the Germans planned aggressive warfare (because there wasn’t any):
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/justice-jackson-has-to-admit/
Germany was raped by the USSR, USA, UK, France, Poland, Norway, Holland, Canada, Australia, basically the entire world.
Americans and Soviets teamed up as of 1933 to intentionally rape Europe and had the world’s first neocon Churchill at their disposal to get the job done.
Many wonderful cities destroyed.
Like what? Coventry? Every beautiful German city was destroyed by these f* Anglo-Zionists for no other purpose than to colonize the European joint. They started bombing civilian targets and threw 20 times as much on Germany as the Germans did on Britain (in retaliation).
But now it is your turn to be raped, by Eurasia, just attack Iran and land yourself in WW3 that will spell the end of the empire and the US itself. This bunch of murderers need to be stopped. America is going to be one giant war zone when unnatural multicult will blow up itself in your ugly face. And you know it, you already have your escape route planned, back to relative European safety.
Besides please stop the obsessive spamming of the board with your stupid WW2 nonsense and get back on topic.
Nothing to gain for you on this subject, now is there? You yourself are spamming this board with your mindless personal attacks against anybody you think is an.ti.a.me.ri.can (basically everybody and his mother) devoid of any on-topic content whatsoever, other than your girly collapse-whining.
Paul on Sun, 6th May 2018 6:44 am
“The Yemenis have added new systems for missiles manufacturing.” How does such a poor, oil-depleted nation pay for this infrastructure? Everybody needs to get paid.
twocats on Sun, 6th May 2018 7:26 am
well done davy – cloggie is a pile of maggots feasting on the board spitting out (f)lies by the dozen – and you kicked that pile and now they’re squirming. It’s fun to watch.
As for the content of the article – many people are not even clear on the reason for the Saudi invasion and interference with Yemen. It’s not to “stop Iranian influence” and it certainly isn’t about oil (yemen doesn’t have much). It’s about MBS sending a message to the Middle East that SA is a force to be reckoned with. Might also be about providing SA armed forces with live fire practice for any real wars that come about.
But the problem is that the Yemen conflict has not gone that well for SA. And if Houthis actually do mount a concerted attack on SA infrastructure – well that would be downright hysterical.
on paying for the missile systems – good question paul – I imagine there are countries that would find funding the Houthis as a means to strike at SA as a very cheap and efficient way to do that. Also keep in mind Yemen has only recently collapsed in terms of oil production and that is probably geopolitical and not entirely geological.
its a complicated picture. for example – average age of Yemenis is 19.5 years of age. Old people just die, there is no retirement home. Unemployment is 33% – nothing to do except war and herding. So if you are paying your soldiers next to nothing and receiving scrap military hardware and manufacturing equipment I imagine you could easily manage a 4 year war.
Also – yemen had 5 billion in reserves in 2014 – it’s spent most of that. A billion a year for warfare. Not chump change in a country of 28 million.
Also – they still export oil and natural gas.
Not that Yemen is doing well – I’m sure its a festering pit of disease, destruction and hunger. But that just sound like a population with nothing else to lose.
twocats on Sun, 6th May 2018 7:28 am
sorry forgot my sources:
https://www.cia.gov/library/Publications/the-world-factbook/geos/print_ym.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/yemen/crude-oil-production
Frank on Sun, 6th May 2018 10:38 am
The Saudis are likely fine with this…it raises the price of oil. We live in a bizarro world.
Boat on Sun, 6th May 2018 8:16 pm
Yo, Yemen rebels are a hotbed of Sharia Law religious fanatics. They are all over the world. It’s one war taking place in many countries. All that booming population with no jobs in the middle east and no change in site. For a few million you have an instant army Like other 3rd world countries.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 6th May 2018 8:30 pm
People don’t want the truth. They want to feel happy. Imagine if the MSM were to run front page stories about — how their antique/obsolete system of global crapitalism is crumbling. How conventional oil and gas are well past peak —how shale is a joke. How solar and wind are nonsense — how EV’s are bullshit and increase pollution… how we shredded Iraq and Libya and Syria so that we could keep BAU alive and continue to live large for a few more years….
This would cause mass hysteria. So since nobody wants truths — and giving them truths would only end badly for all involved… might as well use the MSM to keep the sheeple under control and entertained. See everybody wins! The public get their puff of hopium, the MSM owners get their shot of influence and wealth, and politics get their PR department for free, and doomsters get their laughs and (like everybody else) a few more years of life.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 6th May 2018 8:33 pm
Our entire economy is a house of cards. The entire food chain is a process of just in time inventory that relies on transportation and machinery. I suppose some people could survive by eating wild plants and animals. But that too will become scarce. More likely scenario is people eating one another.
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa