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I thought they bought all their **** from us, rQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Yet they've only managed to create famine and cholera in tiny Yemen, not actually win the war.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Did you know that tiny Yemen has a population of 28m.. The Saudi's have around 32m.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Perhaps incomparable in many other ways but, not so tiny.
15 Yemen Road,Yemen to be preciseQuote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Is that where you sent my postal order?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Well,you see,here's the thing.That auntie I was waiting on sending it from New Zealand,well,you see....Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I hope that explains it all.
GPWM. Though subtract 100,000 gone from Saudi bombing and perhaps another 500,000 cholera victims. Hardly surprising they'd want to chuck a missile at Riyadh.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
NB: Not an Iranian missile, as the Saudi headchoppers claim. https://twitter.com/hrome2/status/927574668210565121
So if some bloke on Twitter says something it is automatically true?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
The original source is Jane's Intelligence Review for fùcks sake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
But still, carry on flying in studs up as usual.
He's not that type of poster AQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
So it was the Russians, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
No surprise there, tbh.
Who the **** is Jane? Some woman on twitter?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Everything is always the Russians, even when it isn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Sister of Jesus.You know,Jesus and Mary's Jane?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Oh well that's all right thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Among the first subscribers of Jane's Intelligence Review was the then vice-president of the United States, Dan Quayle
A bit of reverence pleaseQuote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
NMow, was Mary's Jane her daughter or is it her sister, so she could have been his Aunt or his sister... if she came from norfolk could have been bothQuote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
I don't know P.I wasn't born then so you should really ask Biffa+Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Jane was in the bible.
I think.
Jane,comes from Joanna who was in the good book.Jebus did a Paul Daniels on her.Amen and praise be.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Well actually after the event I realised my error in confusing the Bible with Tarzan which of course Jane is in.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Bible wise I was thinking of Cane and Abel, who of course were blokes, or maybe fluid or something.
Easy to confuse the two in such a well read chap as yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Not sure what Dan Quayle reading a magazine decades ago has to do with the provenance of a Houthi missile, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
twas a flippant response as I was busy. I have now had time to look at the link properly. It actually talks at quite some measure about the Iranian involvement and merely states that the weapon is unlike one that exists in the Iranian Arsenal (football content). Even by your own source it seems there is extensive Iranian involvement in the regionQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Iranian involvement
Given that Yemen has no known history of producing its own ballistic missiles, let alone extended- range Scud versions, the emergence of the Qaher and Burkan missiles appears to support the claims made by the coalition and US officials that Iran is extensively involved. "Iran has provided critical capability and assistance to the Houthis in their campaign to attack Saudi Arabian territory with ballistic missiles and rockets," a US Department of State official told Jane's in October 2016.
There is now strong evidence that Iran has been shipping weapons to its Yemeni allies. This includes Iranian-made versions of the Steyr HS .50 anti-materiel rifle, which have been identified by Jane's in several photos of armed rebels, as well as in footage of Emirati soldiers recovering rifles from a rebel base outside Al-Mukha. Likewise, the rebels claim to be producing Qasef-1 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), although they appear very similar - if not identical - to the Iranian Ababil 2 UAV.
Joanna is from South Africa, c. Not sure JC got selected for that tourQuote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Iranian involvement is no secret, but when the Saudis and, IIRC, Donald Trump are claiming that it's an Iranian missile, possibly as part of a drive to justify starting a new war in Lebanon, I think it's healthy to consider alternative scenarios, especially when the sea blockade around Yemen makes it hard to get even food and medical supplies in, let alone missiles of such range.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Pointing to the article was not to dispute Iranian support for the Houthis, but to show how it is technically possible to have adapted existing Yemeni army missiles in their possession to extend their range to Riyadh.
Not to mention the utter hypocrisy of the Saudis and US complaining about third party support for a rebel side in a civil war.
Point taken. And not for one minute would I want to be seen as backing the Saudis or Trump of course. Actually went off an tangent from that article and was reading some very interesting takes on the regionQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Are you fond of conspiracy theories? There's some corkers going about just now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I just hope their hounds are OK :-(
According to my Twitter feed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Among all the river-less countries the largest of them all is Saudi Arabia with an area of 830,000 square miles.
that is where my interest in the country starts and ends.
but why the **** anyone would build a settlement where there is no water? nutters.
Yes, it is an interesting region historically. Arguably Britain's third involvement in a war in Yemen in a century. Possibly a record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Not sure that nomads & Bedouins built settlements tbh. Perhaps it was the thirsty wanderings that inspired the horrors of Wahhabism.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
:nod: My favourite is that many of the arrested Saudis are in the Podesta/Clinton gang and The Clown Prince and The Trumpet are working together to bring them down.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
well, someone settled in Riyadh at some point. there is now 5m plus of them there. It is nowhere near the coast on a desert plateau.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I think you're right... all that sun and no water. It is enough to make a man want to hit himself over the head with a large knife.