Saudi says two Houthi missiles intercepted over Riyadh

[Alameda]

Source: Al Jazeera

At least six loud blasts were heard on Sunday and bright flashes were seen in the sky over Riyadh, a witness told Reuters news agency.

Shrapnel was spotted on a street in the diplomatic quarter where most embassies are located and many foreigners live.



Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/saudi-houthi-missiles-intercepted-riyadh-180624232232166.html

[DURHAM D]

1. Is Jared on his way? I am sure he can fix it. nt

[leftofcool]

2. I thought Donnie said "I alone can fix it."

[Scarsdale]

3. Well, Kushner

in all his wisdom, will be putting his expertise to work on THAT. How does Pompeo feel about Kushner doing all this "work"? I thought dealing with foreign governments was P's job? Jared only negotiates loans for his family businesses, and patents for his Botox queen, Ivanka. When DOES he find time for trivialities such as peace in the M.E., the opioid crisis etc?

[Fred Sanders]

4. While the corporate media frets over some harmless explosions....dictatorship of Saudi is

invading Yemen and creating another humanitarian crisis, killing indiscriminately as it advances....but the concern is over some terrorists being d vested in SW Syria...because one is an ally and one is an enemy...the dead do not care.

[Igel]

5. It's a civil war.

Consider the reporting I heard today.

There's a huge humanitarian crisis. And by having one try to take the port from the other, the result can't help but be a huge humanitarian crisis. We must stop this humanitarian disaster from occuring--so there's the demand that if the government side takes the port from the Houthis, they must guarantee that food and supplies will make it to Houthi areas.

Unlike now, because since the port is the main way for food to get in and there's been a humanitarian crisis when the port was under Houthi control because apparently the Houthis don't see a reason to guarantee that food and supplies make it to non-Houthi-controlled areas.

See the asymmetry here? We're afraid that what's happened will happen, but we're really afraid of the moral taint not of having a crisis but having *our* side be responsible for the crisis. The crisis is news, but those currently suffering aren't important enough to us to say, "I know, let's take the port and alleviate the suffering of *our* part of the country. No, we must choose being sacrificing people in the name of fairness or making sure that we're morally superior."

I look at the origins of the crisis. It's a rebel-caused civil war, because of the attempted arrest of a symbol of both northern political power and religion. Symbols are stupid things to kill hundreds of thousands of people over, but there you have it--the symbol's defense was worth all the bloodshed. Now, I have to assume that conditions weren't great under the government when it had control, but most of the oppression seems rather low key compared to the cost of trying to avoid it. I can't help but note that for much of the fighting, the lines of control seem to be not so different from the old north/south Yemen lines.

[Fred Sanders]

7. The Houthis, led by a charismatic leader named Houthi, were the rebels when they overthrew

a Western backed tyrant and his family. Were backed by Iran. He was killed in a Saudi air strike.

Now the so called civil war is on, phase 2, with the Houthis mercilessly slaughtered by a far superior military force, aided and abetted by America and all Iran hating nations around there...the whole Muslim religious schism thing.

We are not on the right side of this world proxy war, by any stretch of propaganda.

[Xolodno]

6. Iran is testing Saudi Arabia's defenses.

They had no expectation those missiles would hit. But checking how far they went, response time, etc.

Meanwhile the proxy war in the guise of a civil war still rages on in Yemen. Think the only way this comes to a peaceful solution is if the country breaks up into north and south again.