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To: Elsie
Houthis : Why do they still EXIST???

Can you say Arc Light?

8 posted on 02/26/2024 3:33:21 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Mark17

“Houthis : Why do they still EXIST???”

You can’t take out a terrorist group like this. They are not a rag tag group of people with tents in the desert.

Iran is widely accused of backing the Houthis, a Zaydi Shiite movement that has been fighting Yemen’s Sunni-majority government since 2004. The Houthis took over the Yemeni capital Sanaa in September 2014 and seized control over much of north Yemen by 2016. Yemeni officials and Sunni states have repeatedly alleged that Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have provided arms, training, and financial support to the Houthis. But Iranian and Hezbollah officials have denied or downplayed the claims. The United States, in coordination with Saudi Arabia, has presented physical evidence of Iranian arms transfers to the group.

Hezbollah, their main supplier of weapons, had over 40K missiles at the southern border ready to fire into Israel less than a couple of weeks ago alone. You can’t kill all of them without destroying a whole lot of a number of countries plus all of Iran and Yemen. There are other ways of forcing the issue. But Biden hasn’t tried them yet, if he is going to. Time will tell.

wy69


31 posted on 02/26/2024 5:48:30 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: Mark17

“Houthis : Why do they still EXIST???”

You can’t take out a terrorist group like this. They are not a rag tag group of people with tents in the desert.

Iran is widely accused of backing the Houthis, a Zaydi Shiite movement that has been fighting Yemen’s Sunni-majority government since 2004. The Houthis took over the Yemeni capital Sanaa in September 2014 and seized control over much of north Yemen by 2016. Yemeni officials and Sunni states have repeatedly alleged that Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have provided arms, training, and financial support to the Houthis. But Iranian and Hezbollah officials have denied or downplayed the claims. The United States, in coordination with Saudi Arabia, has presented physical evidence of Iranian arms transfers to the group.

Hezbollah, their main supplier of weapons, had over 40K missiles at the southern border ready to fire into Israel less than a couple of weeks ago alone. You can’t kill all of them without destroying a whole lot of a number of countries plus all of Iran and Yemen. There are other ways of forcing the issue. But Biden hasn’t tried them yet, if he is going to. Time will tell.

wy69


32 posted on 02/26/2024 5:48:30 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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