Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Yemen’s Houthis claimed Wednesday its Shia militants targeted Saudi Aramco facilities with a missile strike in Jizan on the Red Sea in the kingdom’s south, which caused a brief surge in oil, jumping above $54 a barrel in New York, before it slipped back down to a nearly 3-month low on reports that no missiles reached their intended targets, leading to skepticism about the Houthi statement.
An hour after the announcement briefly rattled oil markets, a Saudi oil official indicated that all missiles were intercepted by Saudi defenses — though details still remain unclear and unconfirmed, especially the timeline of when the attack allegedly happened.
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It marks the first such Houthi attack on Aramco facilities since the major Sept.14 drone and missile strikes which severely damaged two facilities deep inside Saudi Arabia, knocking all the country’s production offline for at least a day.
Reuters reports: “Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria did not give a timeframe for the assault.” State oil giant Aramco itself has not issued confirmation or denial.
And further, the Houthi military statement indicated “the group that has been battling a Saudi-led military coalition for nearly five years had also targeted non-energy Saudi facilities near the border with Yemen,” according to Reuters.
Typically either the Saudis or Houthis themselves release some level of video evidence for such major rocket attacks. In past rocket attacks from Yemen onto Saudi soil, Riyadh has released images of missile debris which fell short of the intended target. The Saudis have yet to provide proof that an “intercept” did in fact take place.
The Jazan facility, while not a crude oil production or major export site, is home to a 400,000 barrel-a-day Aramco refinery, which is further expected to operate at full capacity by the end of 2020.
Destroy Aramco completely
“…had also targeted non-energy Saudi facilities near the border with Yemen…”
1,200,000 cases of cholera just in the last two years from Saudi/US weaponizing water in Yemen. 300,000 Yemeni child victims – mostly severe cases. 1513 deaths, three times as many permanent developmental disabilities in children. No wonder WHO doesn’t give a shit about China. They’re busy not giving a shit about Yemen. Something to do with WHO’s biggest financial donors, I guess. WHO also goes out of its way to point out that Houthis are also responsible for destroying their own water supplies… [groan] so ‘both’ sides are guilty [facepalm].
Gosh… it would be awful if anything happened to SAWACO’s desalination plant in Jeddah. Perhaps the Saudi King or his butcher son should ponder the ongoing Zaydi Muslim genocide in Yemen. The one he caused by using CENTCOM to bomb water wells, purification plants and waste treatment facilities. Weaponizing water – that’s a big Wahhabi thing, isn’t it?
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The range is possible, accuracy questionable, but barely byhome built missle systems Hothi posess, so in truth they would need mush more accurate and faster more reliable foreign equipment.
US and those specialized aircraft early warming and ground surveilance planes supplied to UAE and Saudi,plus satellite monitoring capabilities would give ample warming time for Saudi missle defences to intercept.
From launch to finding trajectory is just to contact with air defense systems is under 90 seconds, and even older but updated Patriot sytems Saudis have are capable of defence, especially by Saudi ability to launch many at a time, repeatedly.
Thats untrue, in the early war they had old unaccurate missile, but recently the accuracy got improved. This just a stunt because if houthis really launch that, they will post everything regarding the attack
Watch this story morph from “failed missile attack” to “slight damage” to “oil facilities shut down for regular maintenance” over the next few days …
Sept.14 attack did not interrupt any oil supply, since Saudi refineries were working at half capacity. Actually most of their distillation columns are idling, because demand was low. The aim of the attack was to hurt their IPO event on NYSE; hurt their rapidly emptying wallets; Saudis produce nothing other than oil, no other industry whatsoever.
nooooooo i want it says the missiles destroyed all targets not intercepted!!!!