If anybody but a Bush had been President on 9/11, this would have been an American action on 9/12. Good for the Houthis for standing against the font of Islamic terrorism.
What Islamic terrorist attack in Yemen or Iran prompted this?
You have no evidence to support that claim. It's also perfectly obvious that we're arming the aggressor here, the Saudis.
Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia could turn to Russia or China for arms, but the French intelligence report emphasizes its dependence on the West.
theintercept.com
Not defending the Saudi's for their part but you and I have different definitions of "aggressor."
Tec from the US drone the Iranians reverse engineered?
I also immediately thought of the RQ-170 incident.
Still, drones shouldnt get through. Many anti-drone systems developed over the years and should have prevented this from happening.
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I guess that should be a wake up call not just for the Saudis, but for any country seeking to protect its vital economic facilities and infrastructure.
Maybe they got more stealth tech out of the RQ-170 than we give them credit for.
Maybe. They'd need to be launched not too far from the target because they depend on line of sight communication. That's a long way over some truly forbidding desert from Houthi controlled Yemen. Hundreds of miles.
Would you assume that any drone attack from the USA was remote-controlled from the USA? Yemen doesn't have boats? If they were servicing the USS Cole in 2000 then I imagine they have a fleet of them.
Besides, half the reason we call them "drones" is because they can do a lot of their work autonomously without remote control, which is how Iran captured our RQ-170. They jammed the military version of GPS it was using to navigate autonomously then fed it false coordinates so it thought it was returning to a base in Afghanistan when, in reality, they were steering it to their own airfield. Would've been a soft landing too except Iran's airfield was several meters below the altitude the drone was expecting. Even consumer drones have a lot of automation including following, homing, auto-landing, programmed routes, etc. Commercial drones are going to be even more configurable.
The "Why?" is simple; the House of Saud is waging a genocidal war against the people of Yemen. The Iranians are helping the people of Yemen so it is very likely that the drones were supplied by Iran. The shame here is that the U.S. is supporting the House of Saud, the very people who attacked us.
This rhetoric is laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Even Usama bin Laden's ethnically-Yemeni family became rich and successful as Saudi's within Saudi Arabia. The House of Said must be pretty incompetent if they can't even pull off this "genocide" in their own country.
This attempt to implicate the Saudi's more than they were in terrorist attacks against the West is purely political. To also claim that they want to genocidally exterminate Yemeni's is beyond laughable. Tell me again that the hijackers were Saudi and I'll tell you "so was ethnically-Yemeni Usama bin Laden even though he was not allowed back in the country." Completely destroys your unjustifiably racial hyperbole.
One bad guy directly attacked the United States, murdering 3,000 people and sponsors terrorism around the world. The other bad guy is Iran. We don't really need to pick either.
Ugh. You've taken a hyperbolic interpretation of our imperfect relationship with the Saudi's to it's ridiculous conclusion. Good job.
SA != AQ
The founder was specifically forced to leave the country and never return, which is a big reason why he took refuge with The Taliban.
Never go full r*tard.
Btw, something seems off with the damage photos. How can the damage holes in these tanks be at almost exactly the same angle, height and position?
Because the attack was launched from really far away. Military drones can do those from really high and really far.
It's called fakery, like the pic of the supposed unexploded limpet mine attached to the Kokaku Courageous.
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