Saudi-Led Airstrikes Kill Scores at a Prison in Yemen

[Celerity]

Source: NYT

The strikes, which also knocked out the country’s internet, came after Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked the U.A.E., a key partner in the Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting in Yemen for years.

CAIRO — The seven-year-old war in Yemen intensified again on Friday when airstrikes by the Saudi-led military coalition on northern Yemen killed at least 70 people and knocked out the entire country’s internet, according to international aid groups and the rebels who control the area.

Capping a week in which rebel drones struck as far away as Abu Dhabi and Saudi bombs rained down across rebel-held northern Yemen, the hostilities were fresh proof of the conflict’s obstinacy a year after President Biden took office vowing to bring the war — and one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters — to an end.

After months of territorial gains by the Houthis, the Iran-backed rebels who control northern Yemen, forces backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have managed to claw back some territory and shift the momentum of the war. Those offensives have snarled international efforts to push the two sides toward peace.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/middleeast/yemen-saudi-arabia-airstrike.html

[spike jones]

1. This is our tax dollars at work. n/t

[Magoo48]

5. The moral boundaries between Dems and Republicans have never been more pronounced.

Except, both belong to the War Party.

Recent history supports this statement. The suffocating War Department’s budget continues flowing into the pockets of MIC. The killing budgets go higher and higher without a bit of trouble skipping through the otherwise treacherous congressional minefield. The arms we sell around the globe continue to Kill and Maime. True anti-war candidates never really stand a chance.

We are a violence supporting nation both inside and around the planet. Presidents from both parties have come and gone; the wars keeping coming.

Now, Jingoistic rhetoric is spewing about Russia and China. The voices of peace are shouted down.

When it comes to war and the production, use, and selling of killing machines; we are a one party nation—The War Party.

[spike jones]

6. You got that right. n/t

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. We are in popular company.

The movie Lord of War is about a fictional arms dealer based on actual events and a composite of actual gunrunners. The final scene is a view of a street filled with spent brass from bullets fired. Superimposed on that is text: "While private gunrunners continue to thrive, the world's biggest arms suppliers are the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, and China. They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council."

Writer director Andrew Niccol is rather gifted, IMO.

[spike jones]

2. This is too. From three years ago. graphic warning.

[link:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6184927/UN-warns-time-running-prevent-Yemen-famine.html|

[Evolve Dammit]

3. Yeah, we're paying for this genocide

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. It's not the first time the US has spent money on crap like this

Propping up Papa Doc, Rhee Syngmun, Ngo Dinh Diem, Augusto Pinochet, Chiang Kai-Shek.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. and the Shah.. You are spot on

[EX500rider]

9. Paying for it how?

Saudi buys their weapons and if the didn't get them from US manufactures Russia or China would gladly supply them, wouldn't change what's going on in Yemen even a bit.

Saudi Arabia will spend 171 billion riyals (U.S. $46 billion) on its military in 2022, about a 10% decrease from the 2021 defense budget of 190 billion riyals, according to the kingdom's budget statement

[Evolve Dammit]

11. We are cozy with the Saudis for the last 70 years for one reason. And the Bush/ Bin Laden family

connections are well documented. 45 continued it after the brutal dismemberment of a US jouranlist. Support of a brutal dictatorship should have stopped a long time ago. Our support is how we pay for it; monetarily or internationally. You're saying it doesn't matter. I'm saying it does.

[EX500rider]

12. The Saudi's have the Iranian backed Houthi rebels firing Iranian cruise and ballistic missiles..

...against Saudi targets, they aren't going to quit if we stop selling them bombs, they will just switch suppliers and the US will have even less leverage.

[amaico]

10. Murderers

They have been doing it for years.