Official: Houthis seize U.S. Embassy vehicles, Marines' weapons at airport

CNN ^ | February 11, 2015 | Hakim Almasmari and Greg Botelho

[McGruff]

Houthi rebels took all U.S. Embassy vehicles parked at the Yemeni capital's airport and wouldn't allow departing U.S. Marines to take their weapons with them, a top airport official in Sanaa said Wednesday.

The actions come after the United States, along with Britain, suspended operations at their respective embassies and moved out staffers because of the instability in the Arab nation.

[ZOOKER]

The enemy learned from this - next time there WILL be hostages taken.

If robbery is tolerated this time, next time it'll be kidnapping, extortion, acts of piracy maybe. No American will be safe on the streets (especially women)

[elpadre]

Why aren’t we flying our people out with Marine helicopters??

[liberalh8ter]

This is sickening.

[BBell]

I'm not surprised.

I'm assuming the Marines had no ammo for these weapons.

Not a bit

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

frosty, man it’s upsetting to read and try to understand what you wrote. When I left basic and went to Nam I can honestly state that I was in the best shap of my life and that was after playing football thru college and high school. We were ready warriors for sure. To bad that even than the politicians meddled with how to effectively defeat the enemy.