Saudi Shoots Down 'Smuggled' Yemen Rebel Missiles

W460

Saudi Arabia intercepted four missiles fired by Yemeni rebels on Tuesday, a Saudi-led coalition said, in what it described as evidence of arms smuggling through a rebel-held Red Sea port.

The coalition has said previously that it destroyed much of the Shiite rebels' missile capability early in its two-year-old bombing campaign and says persistent launches show they are receiving new deliveries from abroad.

"Early this morning, four missiles were intercepted," the coalition said. 

"The ongoing missile attacks on Saudi cities provide clear evidence of the arms smuggling that continues to take place in Yemen, notably through the port of Hodeida."

The coalition said that the missiles targeted Khamis Mushait, which houses the coalition's main airbase for its operations in Yemen, and Abha, another city close to the Yemeni border.

It said they were intercepted without casualties or damage.

The coalition has previously accused Shiite Iran of smuggling weapons to its coreligionists, a charge Tehran denies.

The coalition has enforced an air and sea blockade of rebel-held areas since the start of its intervention in March 2015.

Hodeida is the main port of entry for UN-supervised aid deliveries to rebel areas.

The UN World Food Programme said on Friday that a third of Yemen's 22 provinces were on the brink of famine.

It said it was providing food to around seven million people each month but that was less than half the 17 million who were going hungry.

Earlier this month, the coalition called on the United Nations to take full control of Hodeida to facilitate "ending the use of the port for weapons smuggling." 

The UN rejected the request, saying the responsibility to protect infrastructure and civilians could not be shifted to other parties. 

Sunday marked the second anniversary of the launch of the coalition's intervention.

Hundreds of thousands poured into the streets of Sanaa in a show of support for the Shiite rebels, who still control the capital as well as most of the north and the Red Sea coast.  

More than 7,700 people have been killed since the intervention began, most of them civilians, according to World Heath Organization figures. 

Comments 35
Thumb justin 28 March 2017, 14:16

I bet Iran says the Saudi claims are delusional.

Thumb Mystic 28 March 2017, 14:36

Even if true, 4 rockets out of how many?

You should know that the Ansarullah fires dozens of rockets every hour in Yemen all days of the week.

And yes most of them hit their targets on Saudi Bases.

Thumb chrisrushlau 28 March 2017, 14:37

Would you call Saudi airstrikes in Yemen "smuggling"?

Thumb chrisrushlau 28 March 2017, 14:37

And who is this Saudi anyway?

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 14:53

"The coalition has said previously that it destroyed much of the Shiite rebels' missile capability early in its two-year-old bombing campaign and says persistent launches show they are receiving new deliveries from abroad.":

or

more credible andmore intelligente conculision is that the so-called-coalition did NOT destroy anyting.... missile launching capacity still intact.

Thumb Mystic 28 March 2017, 16:16

Big words and no action. That is the Saudi style

Thumb Mystic 28 March 2017, 16:28

Said the jew. How about you promising to destroy Hezbollah in 2006?

Big words jew.

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 16:35

lol anonyme you always pull the silliest stories out of your rear

Thumb Mystic 28 March 2017, 16:54

Texas American scum
If the popular mobilization units were allowed to enter Mosul, then Da3ish would've been completely slaughtered by now.
But the Gulf countries including the U.S says it would be a massacre of Sunnis then.

America supports ISIS not Iraq.
Yemen is the Ansarulkah killing Gulf minions on as daily basis with good counts unfortunately the Yemeni people is starving because American navy blocks the food supplies from aid organisations.
Syria is different, you have all the salafis of the world with a free zone in Turkey to stream into Syria for 6 years of unlimited weapons and money you still can't topple Assad.

You are on the losing side texas.

Thumb justin 28 March 2017, 18:17

"_mowaten_ 1 hour ago
lol anonyme you always pull the silliest stories out of your rear"

it sure sounds he did not but you did with your repulsive harassing comments.

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:27

justench: he did, and I demonstrated it below by putting parts of his version side by side with the actual "source" he claims to have used.
even a simple mind like yours will have no problem seeing the lies, even if your dishonesty will prevent you from admitting it.

Thumb EagleDawn 28 March 2017, 20:09

hi-la-ri-ou-S! when @mowateh talks about honesty and morals.

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 17:02

maybe this is where you got -inspiration- for your story, but the way you said it above is entirely different.

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 18:09

yalla666
".. I have sources to every thing I say. ":

but twisted to fit your biased and hateful mind, in other word: fabricated lies.... like your adopted country which created all terrorist groups in Syria to later claim that they are "rebels" who seek democracy by practicing cannibalism and cutting throats.

Thumb shab 28 March 2017, 18:09

Who cares, let them bomb each others. We have our own problems --> The Filthy murdering militia

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 18:14

we know that Israel has its own problem, a serious one, its fake existence.

Thumb justin 28 March 2017, 18:19

why don't you eradicate the fake existence then? All we see you doing is killing other Arabs to serve your masters in iran.

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 18:43

don't worry maintain Syria out of the axis of terrorism and Saudi influence is the 2nd victory... getting closer

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 18:49

***maintaining

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:19

lol anonyme you really are bats crazy, southern said one thing, which is:
"maintaining Syria out of the axis of terrorism and Saudi influence is the 2nd victory"

you go on twisting his words, pretending to quote him, and making up an entire paragraph of your own trying to pass it off as his. DUDE, how far gone are you?

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:21

and btw I agree with southern, had syria fallen to takfiris/saudis, it would now be a slave to israel's slaves, and all hopes of successful resistance would have been dead. protecting syria was not an objective by itself, it was simply an existential matter.

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:22

justench you can laugh now, like those who laughed in the 90s saying hezbollah would "never free an inch of lebanon's south", but trust me you will choke on those laughs one day sooner or later.

Thumb Puppet 28 March 2017, 19:26

I immensely respect Mr. Mowaten because he is nice, wise and never tells a lie.

Thumb barrymore 28 March 2017, 19:28

the iranian heretic is still under the illusion that his terrorist militia liberated he south.

Missing peace 28 March 2017, 19:32

and in what is eradicating israel a lebanese matter? is none of our business but the palestinians one...and if iran wants to eradicate them then it is their business not a lebanese one! they've been saying that since 1979, what have they done so far except wanting to take control of the arab world under the pretext of eradicating israel? nothing....
but hezbis obey iran not lebanon... no wonder there

Thumb EagleDawn 28 March 2017, 20:05

lol @mowateh
You're not Lebanese, and even less honorable, so don't pretend to speak for what you're not.
You have no idea what is good for Lebanon, and you don't care either. You're an iranian-loving muppet and only their interests count for you.

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 20:34

yalla666

and is a conjunction..

terrorism and Saudi influence is the same thing.... thus both are the 2nd victory, the first was when the zionists were beaten in 2000 and 2006.

keep manupulating our statements, i can imagen how red-faced you're now. LIAR.

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 21:41

gee anonyme, take a break with all that BS, everybody sees very clearly you got whipped, yet again, today.

Thumb shab 28 March 2017, 22:25

So now I'm Israeli ? lool yalla basita, I'm "Byerte". But you have to be Lebanese to know that word

Thumb Southern...... 28 March 2017, 18:40

facing the truth by insulting, it's called stupidity up-to the last bone, this is your case....

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:10

lol, how pitiful. you havent nailed anything besides yourself anonyme, by showing you're so dumb you dont understand plain english. you took an article and transformed every part of it, which means you made up the story you said above. nothing changed here, you're still retarded and psychotic, a total waste of oxygen.

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:13

blatant lie n1:
in your version you said : "Obama administration rejected the request citing that seeking a decisive victory over the Houthies goes against Washington efforts & objective of brokering a peace deal based on political settlement and not a military one"

while the article says: "A similar Emirati proposal for help in attacking Hodeida was rejected late last year by the Obama administration, on the grounds that Emirati ships and warplanes, U.S. Special Operations forces and Yemeni government troops were unlikely to succeed in dislodging the entrenched, well-armed rebels and could worsen the humanitarian situation"

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:15

blatant lie n2:
in your version you said: " Trump answered - anything you need will be at your disposal.

while the article says: "Some advisers to President Trump share those same concerns, the senior official said. “There has been no decision yet as to whether [the restrictions] will be lifted. There is certainly broad disagreement across our government""

Thumb _mowaten_ 28 March 2017, 19:40

no this is not called paraphrasing, it's called LYING, though i don't expect a fundamentally dishonest person like you to understand the difference. your version is not another phrasing for the source, you're twisting the facts and inserting your own wishful thinking in between, it's a different story altogether.
now go on, i expect you to keep on screaming and squirming after getting a hit on the nose like this one, but nobody cares.

Thumb EagleDawn 28 March 2017, 20:07

lol @mowateh
please don’t make me laugh, your only job here is to post cheap accusations and personal attacks on commenters. you never post anything on topic, you're at the rock bottom of trolling, an untrained chimp could post more meaningful comments than you.

habboub dont be so pathetic. when you have nothing to say, say nothing. trolls will speak of everything except the points that matter.

BTW, I love it when you sound so bitter :)