Devs Sep 8 >Turkey-US-SDF military council joint patrols begin as fortifications and heavy weapons are pulled back from the Turkish border >Iranian oil tanker ADRIAN DARYA 1(Grace 1) unloaded its cargo to Syria successfully, while under hostile drone monitoring >SAA stationed at the Khan Shaykhun perimeter checkpoints shell town of Ma'rat Harmah in the southern countryside of Idlib with heavy artillery >Turkish Armed Forces artillery units is heavily pounding the YPG positions in Malikiyah and Shawarighat, northwest axis of Tel Rifaat >Iranians still building Shia Disneyland at al Bukmal, while Syrians claim a tank base is being built >Border between Israel and Lebanon becomes quiet again >US seeking direct talks with Iran, tells Israel to cool it >Violent clashes between YPG and TFSA at Herbul Axis
/ug/ soon my fingolian friend, and the DPR/LPR will make swift gains against the hohols as they have before
Ethan Jenkins
youtube.com/watch?v=3zbOGjAt_Wk >Venezuelan Interior Minister Nestor Reverol held a press conference on Friday to discuss the recent publication of a series of photographs featuring Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido along with some members of a suspected Colombian paramilitary group known as 'Los Rastrojos’. Reverol pointed out that "all these elements of evidence of Guaido's direct links with the top leaders of this Colombian paramilitary organization, Los Rastrojos, show once again his association in all the terrorist actions planned in Venezuela to undermine democratic stability and peace.”
youtube.com/watch?v=OOnRC8M10JY >Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza denounced the decision to invoke the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) by the US and 10 other countries as "dangerous", during a press conference at the headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday. He assured that Venezuela stood ready to defend itself in light of the TIAR activation, noting, "We will defend our territory with our weapons system, with our Bolivarian National Armed Force and its dignity, with our militia, which surpasses three million militiamen and all Venezuelans.
>Trump confirms US has killed Osama bin Laden's son Hamza
Death of son of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was reported but not confirmed in July theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/14/trump-confirms-us-has-killed-osama-bin-ladens-son-hamza Dona rump confirmed on Sat that the US has killed Hamza bin Laden, a son of the aQ leader Osama bL, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.Bin Laden’s death was reported in July but not confirmed by the US govt. The NYT reported then he was killed some time in the last two years.
On Sat the US said he was killed in “a US counterterrorism operation in the Afghan/Paki region”. It did not say when.
Bin Laden, who was believed to be aged around 30, had been seeking to lead a resurgence of aQ, which has been eclipsed among jihadist terrorist groups by IS. The US state dept designated him as a terrorist in 2017.
AQ was clearly grooming him to be a next generation successor,” Peter Bergen, director of the international security programme at the New America foundation.
“Ayman al-Zawahiri hasn’t been a particularly effective leader. He’s got a sort of charisma deficit. And they were trying to put this guy forward.”
On Sat, using variant spellings of the Bin Laden name, that of the target’s father and the group he led, a statement issued by the US press secretary read: “Hamza bin Ladin, the high-ranking al-Qa’ida member and son of Usama bin Ladin, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation in the Afghan/Paki region.”
Bin Laden’s death, the statement said, “deprives al-Qa’ida of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father” and “undermines important operational activities of the group”.
The statement added: “Hamza was responsible for planning and dealing with various terrorist groups.”
Osama was killed by US special forces who raided his compound in Abbottabad, in 2011. Hamza bin Laden was the son of Khairiah Sabar, one of the 3 surviving wives who lived with him.
Nice bread. A question. How assassination gets along with western democratic speach? Why there's no lefty SJW crying against killing at cold blood an human beign? Ibn4 stupid question.
Charles Davis
cringe
Juan Barnes
DEATH TO AMERICA
Jace Sanders
They think not rising your hands up if police told you deserves death and killing newborn is fine so assassination is nothing to them.
Robert Bell
gib example. your question is pretty open, almost like bait. which human got assasinated and which sjw'S are not moaning about it?
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49703143 >Saudi Arabia oil production reduced by drone strikes Saudi Arabia's oil production has been severely disrupted by drone attacks on two major oil facilities run by state-owned company Aramco, reports say.
Sources quoted by Reuters and WSJ said the strikes had reduced production by five million barrels a day - nearly half the kingdom's output.
The fires are now under control at both facilities, Saudi state media say.
A spokesman for the Houthi rebel group in Yemen said it had deployed 10 drones in the attacks.
The Saudis lead a military coalition backing Yemen's government, while Iran backs the Houthi rebels.
The Houthi spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future.
He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest operations the Houthi forces had undertaken inside Saudi Arabia and was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".
TV footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant, while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield. United Nations envoy Martin Griffiths described the attacks as "extremely worrying" in a statement in which he called on all parties in the Yemen conflict to exercise restraint.
Saudi officials have yet to comment on who they think is behind the attacks.
"At 04:00 (01:00 GMT), the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of... drones," the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
"The two fires have been controlled."
There have been no details on the damage but AFP news agency quoted interior ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki as saying there were no casualties.
iranian oil is going back on sale. no country is going to accept american sanctions now that there is no alternative.
Isaac Jackson
>Just a reminder
The Khurais oilfield produces about 1% of the world's oil, and Abqaiq is the company's largest facility - with the capacity to process 7% of the global supply. Even a brief or partial disruption could affect the company, and the oil supply, given their size.
There was a sharp intake of breath as analysts I spoke to today digested the information that reports suggest that half of Saudi Arabia's oil production could have been knocked offline by these attacks.
The country produces 10% of the world's crude oil. Cutting this in half could have a significant effect on the oil price come Monday when markets open.
>IPO fucked up, fucked up, fucked up.
Houthis should offer saudi arabia terms of surrender
Houthi rebels have been using drones in combat since the start of the Saudi-led war. The first appeared to be off-the-shelf, hobby-kit-style drones, but later versions have been nearly identical to Iranian models. Tehran denies supplying the rebels with weapons, but the west and Gulf Arab nations say it does.
The rebels have flown drones into the radar arrays of Saudi Arabia’s Patriot missile batteries, according to Conflict Armament Research, disabling them and allowing them to fire ballistic missiles into the kingdom unchallenged.
They launched drone attacks targeting Saudi Arabia’s crucial east-west pipeline in May as tensions heightened between Iran and the US.
Houthi drones also struck the Shaybah oil field in August. The field produces 1m barrels of crude a day near the Saudi border with the United Arab Emirates.
UN investigators have suggested that the rebels’ new UAV-X drone may have a range of up to 930 miles (1,500km), meaning they would be able to reach Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
>no wonder no one wants to buy patriot missile batteries.....
Levi Howard
Hand in hand. When MBS decide to dismember critical of him journalist western nations showed their full support.
Isaac Reed
>page 8 /ug/ when?
Mason Thompson
quick reminder
>thesaker.is/the-filigree-blow-dealt-to-the-arabian-patriot-highlighted-the-critical-shortcomings-of-the-an-mpq-65-radar/ >First of all, it is this rather big restriction on the minimum height of the targets accompanied during passage and “locked on” by AN/MPQ-53/65 radars, which totals 0.03 km (30m), while the illuminating and targeting radars 30H6E and 9C36 of the S-300PM1 and “Buk-M2” systems work on superlow-altitude objects operating at heights of 10-15m! >This shortcoming is the peculiar “genetic disease” of stations from the MPQ-53 family connected to the minimum ray elevation angle of 1 degree, while the scanning elevation zone of other modern MLRS begins either with 0 degrees, or with negative indicators (-4 to -7 degrees): a bright example of this is the multi-height 96L6 detector and the low-altitude “Podlet-K1” detector installed on S-400 “Triumf” systems. >Therefore, the drones and cruise missiles of the Houthis “sneaking” at the height of 15-20m could “bypass” the observation elevation zone of the MPQ-53.
keep in mind this article was published back in july and the sauds really should have had this problem fixed.. but you never know
Carter Thomas
picture captions
>Western sources: A fire that broke out in an Aramco factory in Biqayq has been controlled. At this moment its cause is unknown. >A source in Syrian security confirmed that Israel used Jordanian airspace with the help of Americans from their military bases in Tanaf to strike Bukamal in eastern Syria >according to sources from the transitional elements supported by the Emirates, Yemeni army forces attacked the Mahfad district by way of the al Kufa' valley in the Abyan province. >There is a scheme being organized to divide South Yemen into two regions. The first includes Mahra, Hadramout, Shabwa and half of Abyan and will be controlled by Saudi Arabia. The second includes Aden, Lahj, Ad-Dhale, Socotra, and part of Abyan and will be controlled by the Emirates.
Joseph Kelly
>Reuters reports State-run Ekhbariya TV, citing its correspondent, said there were no casualties, but there was no official statement. A Reuters witness nearby said at least 15 ambulances were seen in the area and there was a heavy security presence around Abqaiq.
“A successful attack on Abqaiq would be akin to a massive heart attack for the oil market and global economy,” said Bob McNally, who runs Rapidan Energy Group and served in the U.S. National Security Council during the second Gulf War in 2003. CRISIS MEETING
Abqaiq is 60 km (37 miles) southwest of Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters. The oil processing plant handles crude from the world’s largest conventional oilfield, the supergiant Ghawar, and for export to terminals Ras Tanura - the world’s biggest offshore oil loading facility - and Juaymah. It also pumps westwards across the kingdom to Red Sea export terminals. Two of the sources said Ghawar was flaring gas after the strikes disrupted gas processing facilities. Khurais, 190 km (118 miles) further southwest, contains the country’s second largest oilfield.
Many Western employees of Aramco live in Abqaiq. The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh said it was unaware of any injuries to Americans from the attacks.
“These attacks against critical infrastructure endanger civilians, are unacceptable, and sooner or later will result in innocent lives being lost,” the embassy quoted Ambassador John Abizaid as saying in a Twitter post. >the fucken hiprocracy Andrew Murrison, a British foreign affairs minister, called on the Houthis to stop threatening civilian areas and Saudi commercial infrastructure. >the fucken hiprocracy The three sources said Aramco had raised emergency levels and was holding a crisis meeting after the assault. >The chief of Iran’s elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani praised the Houthis for their resistance in a Twitter post. >Based Soleimani
yeah, i remember this. I wonder however. 15-20m is pretty low, especially for these things which go quite fast. not saying it can't be done, but it sounds like a cover story of sorts. i suspect there is something else wrong with the radars. could be wrong, but I suspect....
I am also not sure the saudi's can fix it, since they would have to rebuild the radars - the american manufacturers would have to do this. plus the radars are now kaput.
Lucas Sanchez
>The rebels have flown drones into the radar arrays of Saudi Arabia’s Patriot missile batteries, according to Conflict Armament Research, disabling them and allowing them to fire ballistic missiles into the kingdom unchallenged.
holy shit, is KSA really unmatched against the Houthi Airforce? something is definitely going to happen next week, no way they're going to wait for another attack without having UK or US soldiers deploy to the frontlines, or at least sort of attempt to neutralize the hostilities (for however long)
>but you never know cue the webm of the Patriot missile
Sebastian Miller
>was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom". KSA about to go under lockdown
keep us updated bro
Noah Hughes
if the goal is to disable the patriots to enable more vectors of attack it doesn't have to stay below detection height forever, just up until the system's minimum range, which i believe is 3km
also patriots are horrible against suicide drone swarms in the first place, if the sauds didn't have more specialized anti-drone defense and were just relying on patriots that's just hubris
vk com/kcontentexpo Saudi oil industrie halved, prices going up to 20% if Iran or US supply.
Jayden Lewis
>"co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".
I wonder if they said that just to keep Saudis even more paranoid.
Juan Turner
>arson at subway was followed by a peaceful march to the american embassy to ask them to intervene.. because there'll be cameras on the way gotta keep those optics clean
Yemen has always been just UAV strikes and maybe a few Spec OPs here and there for the US, no way they will go into Yemen at this time since they'll face the same fate as all the other Spec OPs that were sent by multiple European countries the Saudis pleaded to this might, unironically, force the US to start up 'talks' in a much needed pace.. just like the Taliban talks (kek)
Andrew Myers
bump
Leo Brooks
twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1172887121704706048 >I had a call today with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the possibility of moving forward with a Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Israel
Lmao at Assad’s attempt to take back Syria. We are close to 10 years of civil war and very little has changed. I’ve never seen a more ineffective leader in my life. Syria will be seen as Somalia 2.0 in the decades to come.
Dominic Edwards
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Matthew Morales
it's only natural goy, america first remember
Nicholas Gonzalez
lmao no argument. cheap bait
Logan Hall
>>>/sosach/
Charles Scott
>Lmao at MsB's attempt to take back Yemen. We are close to 6 years of civil war and so much has changed. I've never seen a more ineffective leader in my life. Yemen will be seen as Syria 2.0 in the decades to come.
>Lmao at Israel attempt to take back the Middle East. We are close to 20 years of war and so much has changed. I've never seen a more ineffective country in my life. Middle East will be seen as Iran 2.0 in the decades to come.
William Gomez
>Russian News Channel hosting a Latin American Spanish speaking journalist interviewing a Farsi-speaking Iranian ex-president being translated into Arabic wut
Easton Cooper
>Lmao at America's attempt to take Iraq. We are close to 30 years of war and very little has changed. I've never seen a more ineffective superpower in my life. Iraq will be seen as Iran 2.0 in the decades to come.
You wish it was bait. Russia is a disaster too you’d think they could take on some desert rebels but nope. Fucking hell. Of America went in this would have been over in a year or two.
Oliver Hughes
>edition.cnn.com/2019/09/14/business/saudi-oil-output-impacted-drone-attack/index.html >5 million bbl/d reduction >5 million*~60$ = 300 million Holy fuck. 300 million $ lost every single day this thing isn't fixed. And that's not even considering that a refined barrel racks ~120-130$ and if they refine it themselves it turns into a double loss. Saudiniggers got outmemed big time.
don't forget they also need to pay for it to be repaired and shit.
Isaac Campbell
don't forget that they also spent 200-300 billions in Yemen just to be fucked like this If i was in Mohammed bin Yahudi i would pre-order a ticket for tel aviv real quick
Jordan Robinson
Repairs would cost peanuts compared to the loss in production. We're probably looking at +1 billion losses in every case, caused by some shitty drones with a combined cost of severl millions. Not even saudiniggers can handle such cost disparity. Kind of reminds me of how kikes down ~1,000$ 122mm rockets with 40,000$ Iron Dome interceptors.
Gabriel Bailey
kek, what they gonna do? i tell you whatthey won't do. they won't hit iranian oil infrastructure, this would hike oil into unaffordable ranges globally.