Is it true that Houthi fired missile to Mecca?

[Saho]

It is trending on Twitter but I can't seem to find any source? Can someone confirm. I heard it was a retaliation from what happened to the funeral.

I can only find this.

 

[WaLeEdK2]

They don't have any missiles lol they're Rebels. They maybe have rockets though.

 

[Providence]

It's almost 1100 KMs from Sana'a to Mecca. WTF is this bullshit ?

How can rebels target a city 1100 KMs away ?

 

[raptor22]

It is trending on Twitter but I can't seem to find any source? Can someone confirm. I heard it was a retaliation from what happened to the funeral.

I can only find this.

As far as I know they didn't target Mecca but Taif a city adjacent to Mecca ... and the real target was King Fahad air base ..

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Borkan 1

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It's almost 1100 KMs from Sana'a to Mecca. WTF is this bullshit ?

How can rebels target a city 1100 KMs away ?

It's not the first time back in September they targeted Taif too ... the missile has range of 800 kilometers and flying distance from Sanaa to Mecca is equal to 508 miles which is equal to 818 km ... while Saana located almost in middle of Yemen ...

 

[Providence]

As far as I know they didn't target Mecca but Taif a city adjacent to Mecca ... and the real target was King Fahad air base ..

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It's not the first time back in September they targeted Taif too ... the missile has range of 800 kilometers and flying distance from Sanaa to Mecca is equal to 508 miles which is equal to 818 km ... while Saana located almost in middle of Yemen ...

How did rebels get hold of 800KM ranged missiles ?

 

[Pandora]

They don't have any missiles lol they're Rebels. They maybe have rockets though.

They have got scud missiles and they have used them to target saudi troops.

How did rebels get hold of 800KM ranged missiles ?

Probably smuggled from Iran as usual.

 

[mohsen]

How did rebels get hold of 800KM ranged missiles ?

It's not rebels, but Yemen army. western media uses the term rebels to justify the Saudis invasion.

 

[raptor22]

How did rebels get hold of 800KM ranged missiles ?

According to SIPRI, 150 Scud-C were exported to Syria in 1991–96, 5 to Libya in 1999, 45 to Yemen in 2001–02.​

besides

The Yemeni missile episode reminds us of the limits of counter-proliferation agreements. In 2002, the U.S. boarded the North Korean ship So San, in which 15 Scuds were hidden under sacks of cement. Yemen finally admitted that it bought the missiles, so under international law they were allowed to be delivered.​

The history of using missiles in Yemen dated back in 1994:

There was also a small number of Scud missiles used in the 1994 civil war in Yemen​

They have got scud missiles and they have used them to target saudi troops.



Probably smuggled from Iran as usual.

You guys have no shame ....prove it ...

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[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

They don't have any missiles lol they're Rebels. They maybe have rockets though.

they have missiles provided by iran and few old ones with saleh forces.

 

[Anaoshak]

Houthis fire missiles at Saudi base and US navy ship after funeral attack
#YemenWar
Saudi and American authorities said the Houthi missiles caused no damage to the military base or the navy vessel off Yemen's coast

Yemenis supporting the Shiite Houthi rebels take part in an anti-Saudi rally in the capital Sanaa (AFP)

Monday 10 October 2016 07:52 UTC
Last update:
Monday 10 October 2016 10:59 UTC

Yemeni rebels fired a long-range missile at a military base deep inside Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening, a day after the Saudi-led coalition bombed a funeral in Sanaa killing over 140 people.

Houthi rebels gave no reason why they fired the ballistic missile toward the King Fahd military base in the Saudi city of Taif, which is near Mecca.

However, the attack came less than 24 hours after the Saudi-led coalition was blamed for bombing a funeral in the Yemeni capital denounced by the United Nations as a “horrendous and heinous” attack.

Saudi state television broadcast a brief clip of what appeared to be the missile landing in Taif, with emergency vehicles attending the scene after an explosion was seen on camera.



Saudi authorities said the missile caused no damage, but it was the deepest strike inside the kingdom so far carried out by Houthi rebels, with the Soviet-era Scud rocket landing some 520km beyond the Yemeni border.

The reported target of the missile strike – the King Fahd military base – is home to American soldiers who are based there to advise their Saudi counterparts on the coalition’s war in Yemen.

On Sunday night two missiles were also fired at a United States navy vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to a spokesperson for the American navy.

The US navy said in a statement that no American sailors were injured and no damage caused to the USS Mason, which is a guided missile destroyer usually homed in Norfolk, Virginia.

Previous attacks by the Houthis have hit Saudi cities much closer to the border, including on Friday when a missile hit the south-west city of Khamis Mushait.

As well as firing on Saudi cities, the Houthis have begun targeting ships operating in the sea off the coast of Yemen, in the strategic waterway known as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which acts as a strategic connection between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, via the Red Sea and Suez Canal.

The USS Mason "detected two inbound missiles" within an hour of each other from about 7pm on Sunday, said US navy spokeswoman Paula Dunn.

The destroyer had been "conducting routine operations in international waters" at the time, she said in a statement.

"Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship," said Dunn, adding that "there were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship".

"We assess these missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen," she said.

However, a spokesperson for the Houthis told Reuters on condition of anonymity that they were not responsible for the attack on the navy vessel.

"(The Houth movement) denies targeting any ship off Yemeni waters," an official said.

The incidents come after the United Arab Emirates said last Wednesday that the Houthis struck a "civilian" vessel in Bab al-Mandab, wounding crewmen.

That attack, which was carried out on 1 October, was claimed by the Houthis.

The UAE is a key member of a Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting the Houthis since March 2015. The coalition was formed to push back Houthi rebels who seized control of much of Yemen, forcing the Riyadh-backed government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi into exile.

Arab Gulf States believe the Houthis are backed by regional rival Iran, which on Sunday offered to treat the wounded from the funeral strike in Sanaa.

The Yemen war has proved devastating for a country that was already the Arab world’s poorest nation. The UN has reported that over 80 percent of the country’s 25 million people require some form of humanitarian assistance.

The UN has also warned that 1.5 million children are among millions of Yemeni who are food insecure, with 370,000 suffering severe malnutrition. The New York-based body has said that Yemen may be about to go into famine, as the Saudi-led coalition maintain a naval blockade on the country.

The UN and rights groups estimate that at least 9,000 people have been killed in the war, and more than three million others displaced.

Peace talks held in Kuwait have stalled and failed to produce a pathway to ending the war.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/h...vy-ship-after-deadly-funeral-attack-822062604
@Saho

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I don't quite follow this issue , as I see many Yemeni decent folks living in Saudia
They look very similar to Saudi people so I don't quite follow the disagreement

 

[Pandora]

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According to SIPRI, 150 Scud-C were exported to Syria in 1991–96, 5 to Libya in 1999, 45 to Yemen in 2001–02.​

besides

The Yemeni missile episode reminds us of the limits of counter-proliferation agreements. In 2002, the U.S. boarded the North Korean ship So San, in which 15 Scuds were hidden under sacks of cement. Yemen finally admitted that it bought the missiles, so under international law they were allowed to be delivered.​

The history of using missiles in Yemen dated back in 1994:

There was also a small number of Scud missiles used in the 1994 civil war in Yemen​

You guys have no shame ....prove it ...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN12A13J

This is the latest ballistic missile attack

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...fire-at-ship-with-iranian-supplied-rocket.php
Houthis dont just get their weapon from thin air. Even world largest armed force wouldn't survive such a war unless billions of dollars worth of weapons are being supplied to them.

 

[raptor22]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN12A13J

This is the latest ballistic missile attack

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...fire-at-ship-with-iranian-supplied-rocket.php
Houthis dont just get their weapon from thin air. Even world largest armed force wouldn't survive such a war unless billions of dollars worth of weapons are being supplied to them.

None of your links talk about ballistic missiles .... and yes a united nation could survive such a war .... please show me these billions of dollars of weapons smuggled to the Yemen by Iran or your claims are baseless ...
For the past 18 month since beginning of the Saudi invasion Yemen has been under embargo by coalition troops and entire Yemen has been surrounded .. then how on earth we supplied them with scud missiles? what you brought as an evidence is what American Gov claims while they've been selling billions dollar of weapons to Saudis and Emirate to attack Yemeni people ... the barbarian attack against people whom gathered in a funeral was conducted by American fighter jets and bombs .. not surprised if they accuse us .
For example it's clear that it wasn't a shoulder-fired rockets but a Chinese-built C-802 anti-ship missiles ... so it shows how your source is accurate .... and as far as I know Yemen has already purchased this type of missiles from China ...

Even your link clearly reveal some thing:

The Houthis, fighters from a Shi'ite sect that ruled a thousand-year kingdom in northern Yemen until 1962, are allied to Hadi's predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh. They have the support of many army units and control most of the north including the capital Sanaa.
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You guys accuse us of creating Shia militia in Yemen while as I said in past Houthis are a major historical player in Yemen centuries ago before even modern KSA came to existence ....

 

[Anaoshak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN12A13J

This is the latest ballistic missile attack

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...fire-at-ship-with-iranian-supplied-rocket.php
Houthis dont just get their weapon from thin air. Even world largest armed force wouldn't survive such a war unless billions of dollars worth of weapons are being supplied to them.

Actually, Yemen acquired C-801 in 1995.
And "Al-Masirah's footage of the missile being launched was shot at night, making it impossible to identify the system involved. However, it did appear to show a booster motor dropping away from the missile after the launch, which is consistent with the Chinese-made C-801 missile that is in service with the Yemeni Navy.

Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman, the spokesman for the Yemeni military units allied to Ansar Allah, told Al-Masirah the missile had hit the middle of the vessel and destroyed it. He added that any naval vessels approaching Yemen's coast would meet a similar fate."

Houthis have big segments of the Yemeni Military behind them. And the Yemeni military have weapons.
Then they also took over several military installations. And etc. So their weapons didn't come from thin air. It was already there.

Iran has supported the Houthis though politically, and also want to send Yemen aid.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/iran-asks-chief-arrange-aid-yemen-victims-42691765

 

[Pandora]

None of your links talk about ballistic missiles .... and yes a united nation could survive such a war .... please show me these billions of dollars of weapons smuggled to the Yemen by Iran or your claims are baseless ...
For the past 18 month since beginning of the Saudi invasion Yemen has been under embargo by coalition troops and entire Yemen has been surrounded .. then how on earth we supplied them with scud missiles? what you brought as an evidence is what American Gov claims while they've been selling billions dollar of weapons to Saudis and Emirate to attack Yemeni people ... the barbarian attack against people whom gathered in a funeral was conducted by American fighter jets and bombs .. not surprised if they accuse us .
For example it's clear that it wasn't a shoulder-fired rockets but a Chinese-built C-802 anti-ship missiles ... so it shows how your source is accurate .... and as far as I know Yemen has already purchased this type of missiles from China ...

Even your link clearly reveal some thing:

The Houthis, fighters from a Shi'ite sect that ruled a thousand-year kingdom in northern Yemen until 1962, are allied to Hadi's predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh. They have the support of many army units and control most of the north including the capital Sanaa.
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You guys accuse us of creating Shia militia in Yemen while as I said in past Houthis are a major historical player in Yemen centuries ago before even modern KSA came to existence ....

It is very clear you didnt even bother opening the news links otherwise you would have seen evidence on the first line

"Yemen's Houthi movement launched a ballistic missile deep into Saudi Arabia "

Secondly china has never sold C802 to yemen so stop lying through your teeth.

Atleast bother to open the link before making a comment. I have no interest in arguing with people with narrow minds so keep living in your small world as i can care less.