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| How Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen has made al Qaeda stronger – and richer | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 8 2016, 07:33 AM (1,219 Views) | |
| Che On The Rocks | Apr 8 2016, 07:33 AM Post #1 |
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| George Aligator | Apr 8 2016, 08:14 AM Post #2 |
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Saudi Wahhabis and Israeli haredim have much in common, theologically, politically and militarily. Uncle Sam supplies the bankroll and the crazies do the rest. |
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| Che On The Rocks | Apr 20 2016, 05:34 AM Post #3 |
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Yemen’s guerrilla war tests military ambitions of big-spending Saudis
![]() LOW FLYING: Saudi Arabia has the third largest defence budget in the world. But its armed forces, seen here at a ceremony for air force officers at King Faisal military college in Riyadh in 2009, have struggled in the guerrilla conflict in Yemen. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed ![]() ![]() ![]() LETHAL TOLL: A man carries a body from a house destroyed by an air strike in the old quarter of Yemen's capital Sanaa, September 19, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi |
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| Robert Stout | Apr 20 2016, 08:55 AM Post #4 |
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The Yemenis kill many more of each other without using expensive weapons like the Saudis use..............
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| George Aligator | Apr 20 2016, 02:42 PM Post #5 |
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I'd like to see the casualty statistics that back up your pronouncement. In any event, two young men shooting at each other with assault weapons produce a different casualty demographic than the prefered Saudi-Israeli tactic of HE and cluster weapons dropped indiscriminately on towns and cities. It ain't just how many you kill, it's whom you kill. |
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| Robert Stout | Apr 21 2016, 12:09 AM Post #6 |
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Both sides use live civilians as mobile sandbags...........
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| Che On The Rocks | Apr 26 2016, 02:57 PM Post #7 |
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How Wartime Washington Lives in Luxury
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| Che On The Rocks | May 7 2016, 07:42 AM Post #8 |
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Former U.S. Diplomats Decry the U.S.-Backed Saudi War in Yemen
![]() Top photo: Yemenis inspect the damage at a sewing workshop that was hit by a Saudi-led coalition air strike in the capital Sanaa, on Feb. 14, 2016. Photo: Mohammed Hawais/AFP/Getty Images) Edited by Che On The Rocks, May 7 2016, 07:44 AM.
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| Che On The Rocks | Jun 7 2016, 08:35 AM Post #9 |
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Yemen conflict: UN takes Saudi coalition off child blacklist
![]() The UN said 1,168 children, more than 70% of them boys, were injured in the conflict in 2015 |
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| George Aligator | Jun 7 2016, 11:13 AM Post #10 |
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The King of Saudi Arabia has set his hair on fire in Yemen and he is trying to put it out with a hammer. When the kingdom topples, the Egyptian army will take over and create a new regional superpower. Then we won't need Israel any more and Bibi can go back to measuring linoleum for Monkey Wards in Pittsburg. |
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| mysysail | Jun 7 2016, 03:43 PM Post #11 |
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The House of Ibn Saud has always profited from the West's dependence on oil. We kow-tow to them because of that, while they secretively sponsor terror. Our naiveté will cost us dearly one day. |
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| Robert Stout | Jun 8 2016, 01:06 AM Post #12 |
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Your grand plan for the Middle East sounds like a Palestinian wet dream............
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| George Aligator | Jun 8 2016, 05:21 PM Post #13 |
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Our naiveté has already cost us beaucoup. Saudi oil production was something of a late comer to world markets but their low lift cost gives them a serious price advantage. When the US started courting the Saud family we were equally focused on the strategic importance of air bases for defense of the Middle East. The rabid anti-Communism of the Wahhabi clergy was much admired as a bulwark against Nasser and Assad who flirted with the USSR. |
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| Robertr2000 | Jun 8 2016, 05:23 PM Post #14 |
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Only because the US gold backed Dollar ended and the creation of Perto/Dollar (Oil had to traded using only US dollars) This is ending btw. US dollar is losing it's World Reserve status. |
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| George Aligator | Jun 8 2016, 06:51 PM Post #15 |
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Our relatively strong dollar is dragging down our exports and slowing job creation in the USA. We need a cheaper dollar and at least 5% inflation to get our annual growth up to the point where we can rebuild for tomorrow. |
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| Robert Stout | Jun 8 2016, 07:29 PM Post #16 |
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More recently ISIS was created as the bastard child of the CIA and Obama...Somehow "moderate rebels" were another miscalculation in Washington DC....Is everyone there still asleep at the wheel ??? Sadly the liberation of Libya did not teach them anything............. :oyvey |
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| Che On The Rocks | Jun 9 2016, 03:12 PM Post #17 |
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Rights groups urge U.N. to put Saudi Yemen coalition back on blacklist
A soldier from the Saudi-led coalition walks on a street pavement in Yemen's southern port city of Aden September 27, 2015. REUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER |
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| Che On The Rocks | Jun 9 2016, 03:41 PM Post #18 |
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U.N. Chief Admits He Removed Saudi Arabia From Child-Killer List Due to Extortion
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| Che On The Rocks | Jun 17 2016, 03:49 PM Post #19 |
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Worried About “Stigmatizing” Cluster Bombs, House Approves More Sales to Saudi Arabia
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| Robert Stout | Jun 18 2016, 02:44 AM Post #20 |
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Oh please...The USA would sell Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons if Saudi Arabia requested some............
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