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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 11 2016, @01:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-shoot dept.

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Saudi military base also targeted by missile fired deep inside the kingdom near holy city of Mecca.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/navy-ship-targeted-missile-attack-yemen-161010034052132.html

A US Navy destroyer has been targeted in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, a US military spokesman says.

In another attack, a ballistic missile launched from Yemen targeted a Saudi airbase near the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi and rebel media reported Monday, the deepest strike yet into the kingdom by the rebels and their allies.

Two missiles failed to hit the US Navy ship after being launched on Sunday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told Reuters news agency.

"USS Mason detected two inbound missiles over a 60-minute period while in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship," he said. "There were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship."

Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey, a Navy spokesman, said on Monday that it was unclear if the Mason was specifically targeted, though the missiles were fired in its direction.

The destroyer at the time of the missile fire was north of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which serves as a gateway for oil tankers headed to Europe through the Suez Canal, a defence official said.

[...] On Monday, Saudi state television broadcast a brief clip of what appeared to be a projectile landing in Taif and the flash of an explosion, followed by images of emergency vehicles.

Taif is home to Saudi Arabia's King Fahad Air Base, which hosts US military personnel training the kingdom's armed forces.

The Saudi military said the missile fired late on Saturday caused no damage. The US military's Central Command, which oversees troops in the Middle East, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Al-Masirah, a satellite news channel run by the Houthis, identified the missile as a local variant of a Soviet-era Scud missile. It said the Volcano-1 missile targeted the airbase.


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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 11 2016, @02:03PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @02:03PM (#412936)

    I'm sure some will try to paint this as part of the "War on Terror" and how this is showing that those Yemenis are dangerous terrorists. But those weren't terrorist attacks at all: This was the group of people that more-or-less are the government of Yemen, going after military targets of nations that have been attacking them, most recently hitting about 700 people that were attending a funeral.

    Just in case people in the US were under the delusion that their news media told them the truth about what was going on in faraway places.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @04:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @04:56PM (#412994)

    Saudi Arabia are the biggest sponsors of terrorists, if you don't count the US sponsoring them.
    They deserve to be bombed even further back into the stone age than they already are.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday October 11 2016, @06:05PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @06:05PM (#413035) Journal
    Any resistance to 'us' is terrorism now, regardless of circumstance, and any action by 'us' is virtuous, again regardless of circumstance.

    Get with the times!
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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:15PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:15PM (#413118)

    Just in case people in the US were under the delusion that their news media told them the truth about what was going on in faraway places.

    I'm not in the US but that is exactly how my local media characterise this. The Houthi are rebels, and the Saudi forces are invading to protect legitimate interests.
    I have never heard or read a single piece with any real insight into the facts (as far as they are known).

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:54PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:54PM (#413136)

      The Houthi were rebels once, but they control the capital city and much of the country, and the president (who was elected in what was decidedly not a free election, since he was the only candidate) fled to his good buddies in Saudi Arabia.

      Regardless of Saudi Arabia's or the United States' motives for doing what they're doing, what the Houthis are doing is attacking hostile military forces and bases, which is exactly what you'd expect a combatant force in a war to do.

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      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 11 2016, @10:53PM

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @10:53PM (#413150)

        Quite right, all I'd like is for my local media to make the effort to explain those simple facts to their audience.

        None of the people involved are reality TV stars however, so I don't imagine it will happen.