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    Saudi-led strike kills dozens of children on school field trip in Yemen

    Saudi-led strike kills dozens of children on school field trip in Yemen

    By Hakim Almasmari, Sarah El Sirgany and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN

    Updated 2:19 AM ET, Fri August 10, 2018

    (CNN)Dozens of children, many younger than 15, were killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a school bus in northern Yemen on Thursday, according to the Houthi-controlled Health Ministry.

    The children were on a field trip when their bus was struck at a market, the first stop of the day; 50 were killed and 77 injured, according to the ministry.

    Most of the children were inside the bus when the airstrike hit, according to a local medic, Yahya al-Hadi.

    The International Committee for the Red Cross said a hospital it supports in Saada had received 29 bodies of "mainly children" younger than 15, and 40 injured, including 30 children.

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    The monstrous Saudi regime, in close cooperation with the US government, continues its indiscriminate slaughter of Yemeni civilians, blowing up a bus full of children. I guess this time they could not find a wedding party to bomb.

    Of course this is only the tip of the iceberg. Apart from their wanton bombardment of civilians, the Saudis have caused widespread famine and a cholera epidemic by blockading Yemen and targeting critical civilian infrastructure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    The monstrous Saudi regime, in close cooperation with the US government, continues its indiscriminate slaughter of Yemeni civilians, blowing up a bus full of children. I guess this time they could not find a wedding party to bomb.

    Of course this is only the tip of the iceberg. Apart from their wanton bombardment of civilians, the Saudis have caused widespread famine and a cholera epidemic by blockading Yemen and targeting critical civilian infrastructure.

    Our collaborators can do no wrong. Probably because they know too damn much

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    The Houthis and forces still loyal to previous leader Saleh are attempting to take control of Yemen and Saudi backed....and UN backed Hadi who the US, France and the Brits give aid concerning logistics and intel, are in a civil war. Saudi Arabia and 8 other Arab states began an air campaign in support of Hadi years ago.....the region where this school bus on a 'field trip' was hit under Houthi control and has been for some time. In the Saada region on the border with Saudi Arabia....where airstrikes by the Sunni coalition against Shia backed rebels are engaged since 2011.

    Collaborators? I don't know. Can do no wrong.....hitting a school bus not intended to be hit is wrong. If the target was something or someone else, this is a tragic and sad result of this civil war where neither side can claim a clean slate where civilians are concerned.

    It does allow for those who hate the United States to make comments such as the previous two predictable posts prior to this one. Allows for that anti-American itch they always have to be scratched.

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    Also donttread and Ethereal. Let's not expose your selective outrage here, this Member will expect further comment, thread starts, and responses from the likes of you two regarding realities in Yemen. It's civil war, the Saada region on the border with SA, the southern regions where al-Qaeda have operating bases and please...….give context to the regions involved relevant to West's(especially this country as you both despise it) geopolitical perspective. This struggle not only occurring on the border with Saudi Arabia.....but the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf itself, even bringing threats from Iran that they'll close the Strait of Hormuz. For example.....

    https://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...ke-tankers.php

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander confirmed for the first time that the Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthis) struck targets following the IRGC’s order, according to transcripts of a speech published on Aug. 7.
    We told the Yemenis to strike two Saudi oil tankers, and they did,” said Brigadier General Second Class Naser Shabani, the operations deputy of Sarallah Base (Tehran), which is tasked with security in the capital during emergency situations. “Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemeni Ansar Allah are our rear guards in the region, the enemy is so vulnerable that we can engage them beyond the border

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    You can touch on the Iranian regime backing the Houthis too should you like, Ethereal. Although, I doubt you'll refer to the Iranians as monstrous. Unless it concerns how they've systematically oppressed your Kurds and prevented their autonomy.

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    Must be tough when you ambulance chasers raise red flags over civilian atrocities without understanding why they're occurring in the first place, what are the actual realities. Ambulance chasing often dangerous as it's by nature a winging it process. Often times, head down while in hot pursuit of a story to make yourself look smart, an Ethereal just as an example and highlighted nicely here will plow head long into the back of the ambulance itself thus exposing the motivation behind his argument here. Is it intellectual curiosity? Or an agenda to spit on the United States?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ransom View Post
    The Houthis and forces still loyal to previous leader Saleh are attempting to take control of Yemen and Saudi backed....and UN backed Hadi who the US, France and the Brits give aid concerning logistics and intel, are in a civil war. Saudi Arabia and 8 other Arab states began an air campaign in support of Hadi years ago.....the region where this school bus on a 'field trip' was hit under Houthi control and has been for some time. In the Saada region on the border with Saudi Arabia....where airstrikes by the Sunni coalition against Shia backed rebels are engaged since 2011.

    Collaborators? I don't know. Can do no wrong.....hitting a school bus not intended to be hit is wrong. If the target was something or someone else, this is a tragic and sad result of this civil war where neither side can claim a clean slate where civilians are concerned.

    It does allow for those who hate the United States to make comments such as the previous two predictable posts prior to this one. Allows for that anti-American itch they always have to be scratched.
    No information on whether is was the target or in the wrong place at the wrong time. I notice that in everything Etheral posts.

    It's just his talking the other side in all things American. Somehow this is our fault.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ransom View Post
    You can touch on the Iranian regime backing the Houthis too should you like, Ethereal. Although, I doubt you'll refer to the Iranians as monstrous. Unless it concerns how they've systematically oppressed your Kurds and prevented their autonomy.
    No, he leaves the Iranians alone. They are our enemies. Can't condemn anything they do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    No, he leaves the Iranians alone. They are our enemies. Can't condemn anything they do.
    Condemns Trump for ending the deal with Iran in fact. Ethereal against every policy opposing Iran's aggressive posture in the region. Even last week claiming Iranian forces would crush Arab armies given the opportunity.

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    And when the barbaric Saudis aren't bombing school buses and starving millions, they're paying off AQ in Yemen, the AQ branch responsible for 9/11.

    US-backed coalition cut deals with al-Qaida in Yemen

    The Saudi-led coalition has been paying off al-Qaida militants to retreat, claiming victories without disclosing payment deals, according to an Associated Press investigation. The compromises run the risk of strengthening the terror organization.

    military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has cut secret deals with al-Qaida fighters, paying some to leave key cities and towns the militants had seized across Yemen and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment, and wads of looted cash, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Hundreds more were recruited to join the coalition itself.

    Again and again over the past two years, the coalition has claimed to win decisive victories that drove al-Qaida militants from their strongholds and shattered their ability to attack the West. What the victors didn't disclose: many of those conquests came without firing a shot.

    The compromises and alliances have allowed al-Qaida militants to survive to fight another day – and risk strengthening the most dangerous branch of the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks.

    Key participants in the pacts said the US was aware of the arrangements and held off on any drone strikes as the al-Qaida fighters retreated in plain sight.
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