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2021-05-29 Arabia
Yemen warns 'lava of fire' as Saudi Arabia claims mysterious base
Follow up to this story from a few days ago.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
has acknowledged that it has constructed a military base on an island in the Bab al-Mandab strait to fight the Sana’a-based government.

In a Thursday statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, an official said all equipment currently present on Yemen # id) ?>
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1 I think it's actually Barīm (Arabic), which is like a corded rope something.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-29 01:22||   2021-05-29 01:22|| Front Page Top

2 lava of fire?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-29 03:18||   2021-05-29 03:18|| Front Page Top

3 ^ Words are all they have ♪ , to take your heart away ♫
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-29 03:34||   2021-05-29 03:34|| Front Page Top

4 ’LAVA OF FIRE’
"It will be like a hundred Hot Pockets™ fresh from the microwave! Bite in, Kaffir, and suffer!"
Posted by Frank G 2021-05-29 06:44||   2021-05-29 06:44|| Front Page Top

5 Shouldn't that be "The Mother of All Lava of Fire"?
Posted by Mercutio 2021-05-29 08:07||   2021-05-29 08:07|| Front Page Top

6 Lava of Fire? What kind of five-cent KCNA Guy cheap foreign knockoff bullshit is that?
Posted by Raj 2021-05-29 08:30||   2021-05-29 08:30|| Front Page Top

7 Not the Lava of Gin-Milk-Fizz, a whole different level of hell.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-29 09:59||   2021-05-29 09:59|| Front Page Top

8 In December 1856, Lord Elphinstone, the governor of Bombay, wrote to the Resident of Aden that "on the subject of Perim, [..] we have been directed to occupy the island, and that it is the intention of Her Majesty's government that a lighthouse should be built there." He added that since the island had already been taken possession of in the name of the East India Company in 1799.... Wiki
Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-05-29 10:15||   2021-05-29 10:15|| Front Page Top

9 This as opposed to the dreaded 'lava of ice'.
Moves a lot slower.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-05-29 17:56||   2021-05-29 17:56|| Front Page Top

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