2 Major Saudi Oil Installations Hit by Drone Strike, and U.S. Blames Iran

The Saudis have been murdering Yemenis in large numbers, but of course they didn't destroy the refineries. Clearly it was the Democrats! :)
 
Althea said:
Saudis meddling in Yemen will cost them dearly. This isn't the first attack, but a better one.

Remember how much fun drones were when only we had them?
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LOL -- Yes, back then they were awesome.

I see the Toadstool announced that the U.S. bagged bin Laden's son. No doubt he will take full credit, and if the assassination was via drone, that'll be just fine and dandy. If via actual troops like with father bin Laden, Trump will still take all the credit. There won't be any "Thanks, Seal Team Six" from the toadies. lol
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
LOL -- Yes, back then they were awesome.

I see the Toadstool announced that the U.S. bagged bin Laden's son. No doubt he will take full credit, and if the assassination was via drone, that'll be just fine and dandy. If via actual troops like with father bin Laden, Trump will still take all the credit. There won't be any "Thanks, Seal Team Six" from the toadies. lol
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And no exposing Seal tactics that gets people killed.
 
anatta said:
Drone attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two key oil installations inside Saudi Arabia on Saturday, damaging facilities that process the vast majority of the country’s crude output and raising the risk of a disruption in world oil supplies.

The attacks immediately escalated tensions in the Persian Gulf amid a standoff between the United States and Iran, even as key questions remained unanswered — where the drones were launched from, and how the Houthis managed to hit facilities deep in Saudi territory, some 500 miles from Yemeni soil.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind what he called “an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply” and asserted that there was “no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.” He did not, however, specify an alternative launch site, and the Saudis themselves refrained from pointing the finger directly at Iran.

President Trump condemned the attack in a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and offered support for “Saudi Arabia’s self defense,” the White House said in a statement, adding that the United States “remains committed to ensuring global oil markets are stable and well supplied.”
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The Houthis said they had launched the aerial attacks with 10 drones, which would amount to their most audacious strike on Saudi Arabia since the kingdom intervened in Yemen’s war more than four years ago. The Saudi-led bombing campaign has devastated the impoverished country and exacerbated the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Houthis are part of a regional network of militant groups aligned with and backed by Iran, Saudi Arabia’s regional rival. American and Saudi officials suspect that Iran has dispatched technicians to Yemen to train the Houthis on drone and missile technology.

United Nations investigators have written that the Houthis have acquired advanced drones that could have a range of up to 930 miles. That leaves open the possibility that the drones used Saturday had flown from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. But they may also have been launched from another country, such as Iraq, or from inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has been training its militia proxies in the region, from Lebanon to Yemen, in more sophisticated warfare using drones, according to two people in Iran with knowledge of the programs.

In Yemen, for example, after Houthi missiles targeting Saudi Arabia were intercepted, Iran moved to train Houthis in drone technology, taking groups to Iran to master assembling, managing and repairing drones, said the people familiar with the programs.
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Thank God President Trump has moved us towards energy independence. Under democrat rule,these events would roil oil markets. But, now it is no big deal

Drilling for our own oil is a national defense imperative and will lead to less wars

Democrats are too fucking stupid and worried about cutting their own dicks off to realize it
 
Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Still In Prison,
https://www.ibtimes.com/pakistani-d...bin-laden-still-prison-health-concern-2792793
Eight years after U.S. Navy SEALS stormed into an al-Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, about 35 miles north of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and killed the much-feared terrorist Osama bin Laden, a doctor who had helped the CIA to track down the most wanted person in the world by running a fake vaccine program in the city is still in a Pakistani prison, said media reports.

Pakistani officials arrested Shakil Afridi weeks after the U.S. special forces killed bin Laden in a military operation that lasted 40 minutes. Since Afridi was not aware of the real target of the U.S. mission when he signed up for running the vaccination program, he didn’t expect that some of the details of the covert mission would be leaked, exposing his identity.

Afridi was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment for his links with the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.
But Qamar Nadeem, Afridi’s lawyer, the charges as mere excuses to punish the doctor....
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Sure -- but Congress should stay out of it. Glad you're okay with your tax dollars going to yet another bogus bullshit war in the ME w/o any sort of voter say-so at all.
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Actually, Mujer de Bujo, you do have a say-so. The members of the house and Senate and the president are all elected by the voters, which includes you, if you vote.

That's how it works in a Constitutional Republic.
 
Teflon Don said:
Thank God President Trump has moved us towards energy independence. Under democrat rule,these events would roil oil markets. But, now it is no big deal

Drilling for our own oil is a national defense imperative and will lead to less wars

Democrats are too fucking stupid and worried about cutting their own dicks off to realize it
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Indeed.
 
https://www.ibtimes.com/saudi-races-restore-oil-supply-after-strike-blamed-iran-2827108
Saudi Arabia raced on Sunday to restart operations at oil plants hit by drone attacks which slashed its production by half, as Iran dismissed US claims it was behind the assault.

The Tehran-backed Huthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, have claimed Saturday's strikes on two plants owned by state giant Aramco.

But United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed the finger squarely at Tehran, saying there was no evidence the "unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply" was launched from Yemen.

"The United States will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and Iran is held accountable for its aggression," the top US diplomat added.

That drew an angry response from Tehran, where foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said: "Such fruitless and blind accusations and remarks are incomprehensible and meaningless."

The remarks were designed to damage Iran's reputation and provide a pretext for "future actions" against the Islamic republic, he said.

Saudi de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose nation is pitted against Iran in a decades-old struggle for regional dominance, has said the kingdom is "willing and able" to respond to this "terrorist aggression".

But a tit-for-tat strike on Iranian oil fields is "highly unlikely", Middle East expert James Dorsey told AFP.

"The Saudis do not want an open conflict with Iran. The Saudis would like others to fight that war, and the others are reluctant," said Dorsey, from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
Markets nervous

Instead, the kingdom focused on restoring production at the plants, as the Saudi bourse slumped three percent as the week's trading began on Sunday morning.

Saturday's explosions set off fires that engulfed the Abqaiq plant, the world's largest oil processing facility, and nearby Khurais, which hosts a massive oil field.

Saudi's energy infrastructure has been hit by the Huthis many times before, but this strike is of a different order, abruptly halting 5.7 million barrels per day (bpd) or about six percent of the world's oil supply.
 
Althea said:
Saudis meddling in Yemen will cost them dearly. This isn't the first attack, but a better one.

Remember how much fun drones were when only we had them?
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I remember how much you lefties enjoyed drone strikes when B. Hussein Yobabymama was dropping indiscriminately on other countries. Yes. I do remember that.

Do you now have an aversion to drone strikes?

Can you provide us a chart of your changing positions, it is hard to keep up. You are for it. You are agin it. You are for it again.
 
Teflon Don said:
I remember how much you lefties enjoyed drone strikes when B. Hussein Yobabymama was dropping indiscriminately on other countries. Yes. I do remember that.

Do you now have an aversion to drone strikes?

Can you provide us a chart of your changing positions, it is hard to keep up. You are for it. You are agin it. You are for it again.
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Remember when drones were so much fun when only we had them?
 
The Saudis will not take this lying down.

A response of Biblical proportions is on the horizon.
 
"U.S. accuses Iran of launching drone strikes against Saudi Arabian oil plant."
CBS News

They probably funded this attack with the money given to Iran ( on the State Dept. list of state sponsors of terrorism) by Obama...in cash in the middle of the night.
 
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