Airstrikes barrage Yemen's capital
Source: Scripps Media
SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led airstrikes hit weapons caches held by Iran-backed Shiite rebels, touching off massive explosions Monday in Yemen’s capital that killed at least 19 people and buried scores of others under the rubble of flattened homes.
The Navy, meanwhile, has dispatched the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt toward the waters off Yemen to join other American ships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the rebels, U.S. officials said.
After the coalition airstrikes, mushroom clouds rose over the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, where the arms depots are located. The Fag Atan area has been targeted several times since March 26, the start of the air campaign against the rebels known as Houthis.
“It was like the doors of hell opened all of a sudden,” said Mohammed Sarhan, whose home is less than 1 mile from the site. “I felt the house lift up and fall.”
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Subtitle: Bombs hit near Iranian Embassy
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But being an arms depot that kind of explosion makes sense. Must have been tons of military hardware in there. Looks familiar:
I wonder how they find where these are located. Pretty sure they don't have a sign that says 'Bomb Here' on the roof of an arms depot. What a mess.
This isn't going to stop anytime soon, since the different groups want to take over the country. It's a civil war, all right.
Glad we aren't giving 'boots on the ground.' But I bet the Saudis bought all the hardware used for the air strike, and the Saudis are flying their own planes.
But I'm just speculating.
Oil tankers go through here from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
The US does not want anyone else controlling it.
