Iran fired cruise missiles in attack on Saudi oil facility: Senior US official

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  1. jdog

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    WTF?
     
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    I know nothing about the Houthi
    Or any oil production they may have
    Or whether AQ there

    I am just saying....
    If there is a war
    It does not seem quite honest to blame the arms suppliers for one side
    When you are the defacto arms supplier for the other side?
     
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    Well, the jjihadi groups have been attacking KSA for the past 20 years … That's what Iran supports. KSA has never attacked Iran.
     
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    You believe you will help Iranians by going in and destroying their country. I am simply wondering what gives you such an idea. Would you like them or the Chinese or someone to do the same to the USA?
     
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    Absolutely. The same all the time in the ME. The Palestinians are cursed for killing the Israelis while their mass killing is simply overlooked.
     
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    And the iranians are cursed for supporting the palestinians
    While we send countless billions supporting the Israeli
     
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    Who you are calling Jjihadi groups are the people who have been living in the North of Yemen for over 1,000 years and who ruled it until 1962,

    What they were complaining about was their right to choice their religion being removed and them having Saudi Wahhabism shoved down their throats and in their mosques.

    Iran's support by all accounts has been nothing like how the Saud's and now the US like to make out. The US knew they were not being supported by Iran when Saleh was Dictator and so would not as he asked, bomb the Houthi. The US were supposed to be bombing Al Qaeda in Yemen but were killing civilians right left and centre and terrifying them daily.

    I seem to remember the US under Obama did not want to help the Sauds attack Yemen but the Sauds went in the huff and eventually he did.

    You know the Houthis got most of their weapons from the Yemen military when Saleh got deposed by the Sauds and changed his mind on the Houthis. Since then it appears they have become very good at making their own.

    There is only one time when war is acceptable and that is for self defence. That is what the Houthi are doing. They are the ones who fight Al Qaeda who the Saud's/UAE have been found fighting together many times. It is the Arab invaders who are in collaboration with Al Qaeda.

    There is no evidence that Iran is responsible for the attack on Saudi oil.


    Seems they fight and kill just about everyone they can get their hand on intheir fear of Iran being and yes, the Sauds are working with the Israelis to kill what they are calling pro Iranians in Syria.

    Saudi jets helping Israel strike pro-Iran militias on Syria-Iraq border
     
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    Nobody is or has been shoving Wahabism down Yemen's throat. Your assumptions will lead you astray.

    Read up on the Houthis since 2004. AQ, al Shabaab, Boko Haram in Yemen.
     
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    Saudi Arabia is by far the world's leading funder of radical Islamic terrorism. This has been true from the time the US began using extremist groups as a weapon to bring Russia it's own Vietnam (Brzezinski's own words) and even before.

    This fact is not in question. It is well documented no matter how hard you try to deny it.

    According to the dominant narrative, 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis and there is clear documentation that elements within Saudi Arabia were supporting and funding the attackers while they were in America.
     
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    Saudi Arabia has been supporting the Palestinians since 1948.. HAMAS and Hezbollah don't help the Palestinians.. They are just an excuse for Israel to continue pushing them out of the West Bank and the Negev.
     
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    LOLOLOL... The Afghani communists overthrew the monarchy in 1974.. The Soviets invaded in 1979. How did the US "trick" them into that?

    You'll love this.


    “The day after the attacks on Washington and New York City, Adnan Bukhari awoke at 5:10 a.m. to the sound of knocking on his front door. Then knocking became a hammering. Bukhari realized men were all around his house, banging on all his windows. Half-awake, he opened the front door. Six FBI agents, armed and wearing bulletproof vests, strode inside.”
    (Palm Beach Post, 9/21/01)

    One can only imagine the surprise for the FBI to meet the supposed hijacker of a suicide mission alive. Although it took CNN a whole day till they realized that Adnan Bukhari was alive (although they had reported live from his house at 3 p. m. still considering him as a dead hijacker) before he was called “alleged associate” of 911.

    Actually when Bukhari was taken for an interview the media only knew that “in Vero Beach, FBI agents detained an unidentified man in connection with the case.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... Found=true

    But very soon the FBI was facing the next problem: Ameer Bukhari had a perfect alibi for not being a hijacker on 911:
    “Ameer Bukhari (…) had died in an air collision above the St. Lucie County International Airport exactly a year before the attacks”.
    (Palm Beach Post, 9/21/01)
    http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/i ... terrorism/
     
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    No Margot you are the one in the wrong though has to be deliberate with your continuing attempt to align the Houthi to the people they, not Saudi Arabia fight.

    However there was one other thing I meant to put in which probably was the main reason for the Saud's to want to destroy the Houthis and that was their work for democracy in Yemen. We know the Saud's fought against that both in supporting the coup in Egypt and in bringing in their army to put down the protests in Bahrain.
     
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    The Saudis do not support the Muslim Brotherhood. Never have.

    Bahrain will cease to exist if the Shia take over.

    Have you ever experienced a Shia riot?
     
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    I understand the situation somewhat differently
    These groups have been trying to overthrow the government of their own country
    And ksa does not like them because of their ties to iran
    And so have been attacking that neighboring country for years
     
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    Most all Houthis weapons are from Iran.
     
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    Houthis motto:

    God is great
    Death to America
    Death to Israel
    God curse the Jews
    Victory to Islam
     
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    curious. what is that in response to?
    Is this your excuse for going with the Saud's militarily stopping the people of Bahrain moving towards democracy? It is the sort of excuse the elite have always given for stopping the people having rights.
     
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    yell I am well aware of that. Is that your way of avoiding answering my post? I came upon another instance of the Saud's attacking Iran. This time indirectly. There is word that the Sauds paid the Israelis to do a recent attack on Iranians in Iraq. Iraq are claiming that this resulted in them doing the attack on KSA

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/...hed-iraq-carried-out-attacks-saudi-oil-plants
     
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    LOLOLOL.. You think Iran is a democracy?

    Bahrain is quite successful.. naturally the Iranians want to wreck that.

    Houda Nonoo. She was appointed to the position by decree of Foreign Affairs Minister Khaled Ben Ahmad Al-Khalifa. Nonoo is the first Jewish person, and third woman, to be appointed ambassador of Bahrain. She is also the first Jewish ambassador of any Middle Eastern Arab country, and the first female Bahraini ambassador to the United States.
    Houda Nonoo - Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houda_Nonoo
     
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    LOLOL.. You do love the wild and crazy conspiracy theories. So NOW the Iranians claim they were forced to attack Saudi refineries. :eyepopping:
     
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    Enjoy your falling around on the floor and trying to act superior but I never said anything on Iran and democracy. I spoke about the Houthis wanting democracy. You replied to that that the Sauds had never liked the Muslim Brotherhood. I asked you why you said that. Your reply is


    ....
    We were not talking about the Iranians views on Bahrain. We are talking about the work for democracy in Bahrain being destroyed by the army of Saudi Arabia coming in. Your first response was
    My points made then remain

    Is this your excuse for going with the Saud's militarily stopping the people of Bahrain moving towards democracy? It is the sort of excuse the elite have always given for stopping the people having rights.

    Conversations with you at the moment seem a waste of time.
     
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    No the Houthis don't want democracy. They want death to America and death to Israel.
     
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    The Saudis do not support the Muslim Brotherhood. Never have.

    Bahrain will cease to exist if the Shia take over.

    Have you ever experienced a Shia riot?
     

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