Houthis Strike Back 3A
Formidable Yemeni Houthi Fighters Strike Back Stephen Lendman Sep. 15, 2019 Things aren’t going well for the US, NATO, Israel, Riyadh, and their jihadist proxies in Yemen. They’re losing endless war to Ansarullah Houthi rebels, their capabilities much more sophisticated than earlier believed. Their explosive-laden drones and missiles are able to penetrate Saudi defenses effectively, damaging strategic targets, including kingdom oil fields, its soft underbelly super-wealth producing lifeline. On Saturday, explosive-laden Houthi drones attacked two Saudi Aramco oil facilities, setting targets struck ablaze — the kingdom’s Abqaiq refinery (the world’s largest) and Khurais oil field. Both attacks caused huge fires visible from outer space. The facilities are crucial world energy supply chain links. The attacks halted over five million barrels of crude operations per day, more than half the kingdom’s daily output, around 5% of world oil supply. Its natural gas production was also affected, halting about half its output. It’s unclear how much damage was done and how long it will take to restore operations. Along with other strategic kingdom targets, key Saudi oil fields remain vulnerable to repeated attacks as long as Riyadh wages war on Yemen. A Houthi spokesman claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attacks, saying: They “carried out a massive offensive operation with ten drones targeting the refineries Abqaiq and Khurais affiliated to Aramco in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia this morning,...
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