Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing
In the late hours of August 29, Najran Regional Airport in southern Saudi Arabia was attacked by several Qasef-2K suicide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs), which had been launched by the Houthis.
“The air force operation targeted warplanes shelters [in Najran International Airport] which resulted in the suspension of aerial aviation in the airport,” Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Houthis, announced.
The Yemeni group’s spokesman added that the attack was yet another response to the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes and siege on Yemen.
Najran is one of the biggest airports in Saudi Arabia’s southern region. Earlier today, the Houthis attacked another big airport in Abha with a cruise missile dubbed Quds-1.
These repeated attacks by the Houthis have disturbed aviation over southern Saudi Arabia. The coalition improved its defensive measures. However, it is yet to fully secure Saudi airspace.
If ARAMCO doesn’t own the airports, then the attacks are of marginal use. Little people and common workers take the scheduled airlines – that’s the only disruption that occurs. Big shots, oligarchs, CEOs and royalty take their own aircraft and don’t have to worry about the tower or terminals being down. Military portions of the airports are fair targets, but hitting civilian parts of airports isn’t accomplishing much or buying Houthis any friends. There’s no point in sinking to the level of depravity of the al Sauds even though they have done far worse to Yemen.
Bombing oil infrastructure, on the other hand, terrifies the rich Saudi owners and western cronies. Hitting the East-West Pipeline, Jizan Refinery and Shaybah NGL Plant bought the Houthis a ton of good PR. Global energy security? F’k that – it isn’t like a few Saudi ports and refineries will be missed. The Saudis will cave well before their production or exports are significantly affected. Most people on earth hate oil companies – few tears will be shed as long as Yemenis are still being slaughtered.
The government owns Aramco and the government owns the airports, thus I humbly disagree with you.
Still buddies?.
See what you did, now? I’m crying. Why can’t people just agree with me? Leave me alone you God damn bully!
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Your comment is factual. In 1988, ARAMCO become a state-owned company, and renamed Saudi Arabian Oil Company (SAUDI ARAMCO). However, the change was nominal as the Saudi idiots don’t have the management and technical skills to run a whorehouse. Their Americunt and Jew masters run the show.
My point wasn’t so much the ultimate ownership, but the effect of the attacks. KSA objects to airport attacks, but doesn’t see unusually worried about them. On the other hand, KSA and global financial and oil markets start chattering like a bunch of high-school girls after oil infrastructure attacks (while simultaneously censoring or whitewashing any mention of them in the MSM). If the Houthis are trying to make Saudi Arabia and UAE GTFO of their country, they should provide the incentive to do so. Years of mowing through Sudanese mercs and random rocket attacks on airports is ‘fighting’, but the Saudis are not getting the message. F’king up ARAMCO’s $100 billion IPO? KSA needs that money, way more than they need Yemen.
No worries, just having fun. The lads 18 birthday last night and he left lots of bottles I must drink.
Looks as if someone finally started thinking clearly.
I’m expecting the FBI to kick in my front door any second now, shoot my dog and then put a few rounds into my neck (just for the hell of it). That should keep me distracted long enough so I don’t notice the other feds sneaking into the back door to plant some drone manufacturing evidence, ARAMCO map coordinates and, of course, hang up an autographed portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini inscribed “to my best drinking buddy ever and honorary Houthi, PavewayIV”. I’ll get the chair after the requisite stop at Gitmo, for sure. [sigh….]
Well, that WOULD have been the case back in the day when our Fearless Leader, his favorite dictator and the addled king gathered around the Palantir, when MbS’s star was on the rise, and when the Saudi-backed head-choppers still seemed to have a chance in Syria. Now, tho, you’ll get a Medal of Freedom because a jump in oil prices will save the day for US exports and frackers, perhaps the only bright spot in an economy crippled by trade wars conceived by one with the focus of a middle schooler with ADD.
Wahhabism is root of all evil. They’re telling fairytales about some guy abdul wahhab, thats such bull, all of us knows where they are from and in whos (CIA) monstrous laboratories they are made.
I wish that airport up in the air and uprooted with several more of these Quds cruise missiles.
Wahhabism like Zionism is a British created evil. They used it to radicalize the Bedouin tribes and later destroyed the Ottoman empire. Most of Wahhabi ideology of evil was written in Whitehall and later the US, which favored these headchoppers and convenient tools to destroy the Sunni world.
To destroy, if you have missed entire Muslim world, or entire wide World. There are created in ’70s, where there was prepasrations for Afganistan, nothing much to do with colapse of Ottoman empire.
apparently Houthi successes have frightened the UAE. Qatar abandoned SA earlier, as did Turkey. SA retains 2 allies—USA, Israel
Actually, the devious Brits and French are also playing both sides of the Wahhabi morons and milking billions from both the UAE pimps and Saudi pimp masters.
Meanwhile the Wahhabi bastards are killing each other to control Aden. The UAE pimps are using the once peaceful island of Socotra to bomb their Saudi vermin “allies”. The devious Brits and French control their UAE puppets and have lengthened the airstrip to 1500 meters to accommodate F-16 and Mirage 2000. The Saudi morons who are totally incompetent will now try to bomb Socotra.