Including civilians.
But sparing the camels and house plants.
At least the ones that haven't been defiled with Muslim Love.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/06/2009 1:19:33 PM PST by jonatron
Thursday, Nov. 5,
A substantial Saudi armored infantry force and tank column crossed the border into Yemen to do battle with Iran-backed Houthi rebels the day after they killed a Saudi border guard. Saudi air force F-15 and Tornado jets have been bombing Yemeni rebel positions near the border with the southern Saudi Jizan province since Wednesday. The Yemeni Houthi rebels are the second Iranian ally to be attacked after Israel's Cast Lead operation against the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza earlier this year, DEBKAfile's military sources report.
"This is not a hit-and-run, this is a sustained action" to clean out the rebel camps in coordination with the Yemeni authorities, said a Saudi source Thursday night.
Sources in Riyadh report a number of Saudi casualties in the first hours of combat. The Saudis decided to send troops into northern Yemen to wipe out the Yazdi Houthi bases after the rebels crossed into Jizan Tuesday, Nov. 3, and captured three villages in the rugged Jebel al-Dukhan district. They killed a Saudi soldier and injured eleven before being driven out.
At this point, the oil kingdom's royal rulers decided to draw the line lest the Yemeni revolt spill over into southern Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim tribes which have an affinity with the Yazdis, a branch of the Shia. Most of all, they are concerned to prevent pro-Iranian fighters from encroaching on Saudi soil.
In the last two weeks, Saudi warships have helped the Yemeni navy apprehend at least three ships bringing fresh arms supplies from Iran to the Houthis, by the same method as Tehran arms supplies reach Hizballah and Hamas.
Tehran denied it is sending weapons to the rebels, but the Saudi rulers decided that Iran had crossed too many red lines and it was time to go on the offensive before the throne was imperiled by Iranian proxy belligerence.
For the last five months, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been providing Yemeni president Abdullah Salah with military assistance against the Yazdi Houthi insurrection, mainly military equipment and ammunition.
Nonetheless, the Yemeni military has not been able to quell the rebellion. The Houthis' strength has been constantly reinforced from Tehran to the point that the Salah regime is in danger.
Israel, Egypt and now Saudi Arabia have had enough of Iran’s interloping in their affairs. Who bombs Tehran first?
Why do I think it is somehow not a great plan to tick off the Saudis in this kind of situation?
Let em kill each other.
"Guys, when you make your move, we'll publicly condemn you so as to keep our own people off our banks. Privately, we'll offer you high-fives. This is the address where you can send the invoice, and we'll have the wire transfers -- via Switzerland -- on their way to the IDF by the next day."
Ping, FWIW.
Iran is sort of an inconvenient truth in the Muslim world. Even they are embarrassed.
I look forward to the Goldstone Saudi Report holding the Saudis responsible for every hangnail on every child in Yemen.
Uh oh.
And so it begins
Especially if you believe (as I do) that the Saudi's have nukes that they bought from the Pakastani's...afterall, it was the Saudi's who financed the 'Muslim Bomb.'
That is what I’m thinking. The Saudis, Jordanians and other interested parties who aren’t keen on having their regimes changed by Iranian imams are going to cut a deal with the Israelis, contract out the dirty work to Israel, and then are going to be shocked, shocked when this business is taken care of. ;)
Including civilians.
But sparing the camels and house plants.
At least the ones that haven't been defiled with Muslim Love.
I read it at DEBKA!!
Any other news sources in ME covering it?
And so it begins
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