Saudi issues drone restrictions following palace incident
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Sunday instructed drone enthusiasts to obtain permission to fly the devices until regulations were finalised, a day after security forces shot down a recreational drone near the king's palace in Riyadh.
Amateur online videos of heavy gunfire in the capital's Khozama district on Saturday sparked fears of possible political unrest in the world's top oil exporter. A senior Saudi official told Reuters there were no casualties when the drone was shot down and that King Salman was not in the palace at the time.
A security screening point had noticed the flying of a small unauthorized recreational drone, leading security forces to deal with it "according to their orders and instructions", state news agency SPA had said.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 24 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)
They're tremendous with swords. Maybe not so great with guns. But we're making them very safe. Because they're buying a THAAD. The same thing we have in South Korea. On the golf course. But this will belong to the Saudis, they're buying it. Not like South Korea. They're getting it for $15 billion -- a very good price, I negotiated very hard for them on that. And I got them a great deal. Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they're going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world. 💰 Not just the THAAD. They're buying tanks, ships, planes, helicopters and much more. That's what use they are. #MAGA [twitter.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:09PM
Saudi airstrike kills 33 at wedding in northern Yemen [wsws.org]:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @06:52PM
I sometimes worry that you are too convincing and are actually getting some people to support that guy...