...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates during a visit by Israel’s president, the second-such time American troops have opened fire, officials said.
The acknowledgements by the White House and Pentagon late Monday represent a widening American involvement in Yemen’s yearslong war, a conflict that US President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
declared nearly a year ago "has to end."
While the US has ended offensive support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting on behalf of Yemen’s exiled government, its involvement in defending the UAE comes as the rebel Houthis have declared al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi a target.
Al-Dhafra hosts some 2,000 American troops and has served as a major base of operations for everything from armed drones to F-35 stealth fighters.
Speaking from the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...said the US military "responded to an inbound missile threat on the UAE.
"This involved the employment of Patriot interceptors to... (support) efforts by the armed forces of the UAE," Psaki said. "I would say we are working quite closely with them."
At the Pentagon, press secretary John Kirby said that "US Patriots were fired, but it was the Emirati surface-to-air missiles that actually engaged the targets."
Asked if that would include targets outside of al-Dhafra, Kirby said: " If we can help defend our Emirati partners, we’re going to do that."
Biden also mentioned the attack on the UAE at the White House during a visit by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, saying that "America will have the backs of our friends in the region."
The Emirati military, as with a similar attack last week, did not acknowledge that the American military opened fire. The autocratic UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, has threatened criminal charges against anyone filming an attack or outgoing interceptor fire.
The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency reported Monday’s interception, saying "the attack did not result in any losses, as the remnants of the ballistic missile fell outside the populated areas." It wasn’t immediately clear where the remnants fell, though American Patriot missiles are thought only to be deployed at al-Dhafra.
The attack came just before President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Dubai Expo 2020.