Original link: http://middleeastobserver.net/you-laugh-but-you-will-soon-cry-ansarullah-official-to-saudi-major-general/
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyNAuwRaIPM
To read transcript: http://middleeastobserver.net/you-laugh-but-you-will-soon-cry-ansarullah-official-to-saudi-major-general/
Transcript:
– Host:
Mr. Mohammad, efforts are now being made to de-escalate the situation, we also have UN initiatives, and there is determination to reach a resolution in Yemen, so why won’t the group (Ansarullah) de-escalate? It continues its shelling inside Yemen, also using drones to strike vital targets at such a sensitive time instead of reaching a resolution in Yemen.
– Mohammad al-Bakhiti, Member of Ansarullah’s Political Council:
The ones who refuse peace are the (countries of) the aggression and their domestic mercenaries. Who escalated? The aggression (states) when they prevented the entry of petroleum-based products into Yemen, and this is tantamount to sentencing the Yemeni people to death. Yes, there is an escalation by the states of the aggression, and this is an escalation by America, by the Biden administration, who refused that petroleum-based products be allowed into Yemen, but who…
– Abdullah Ghanem al-Qahtani, Saudi Major General:
This is the fourth episode in a row that you repeat the same thing, petroleum products petroleum products…
– Al-Bukhaiti:
Well, yes. Why would we target Aramco? Why target oil facilities inside Saudi Arabia? It’s in order to break the siege (on Yemen).
– Host:
But Mr. Mohammad, if you’ll allow me to interrupt you, UN diplomats are saying that a UN team has concluded that it was the Houthis that launched an attack that led to the deaths of 22 people in the airport of Aden upon the arrival of Yemeni officials on the 30th of December. So how can one understand peace initiatives, conditions for de-escalation, and dialogue between the warring parties at a time when these strikes continue, along with the death of Yemenis and non-Yemenis as well?
– Al-Bukhaiti:
As I said, the barring of the entry of petroleum-based products into Yemen is the greater escalation, and the damage caused by the embargo far outweighs the damage caused by the aggression itself. Please notice that Mr. Abdullah is laughing, but they feel a great deal of pain when we bombard the oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, and these attacks will increase both in quality and quantity until we force Saudi Arabia to cease its aggression on Yemen, and that’s why you won’t be laughing for long, and the day will come when you will cry, and you’ve already begun to cry, holler, and wail before the international community.
– Al-Qahtani
(Laughing) Please go on…
– Al-Bukhaiti: Laugh, laugh, laugh at your misery
– Al-Qahtani: I feel sorry for you Mohammad, I swear I feel sorry for you. You poor thing…stick to recruiting people for the frontlines, stick to recruiting mercenaries at the frontlines, this is not the place for you.
– Host:
Let’s continue with our discussion please…
Quote: “Every party involved in Syria is fighting tooth and nail for their own interests and any small opportunity is being exploited, as is clear to see.”
One sees such relativism far too often. It is as if some invaders come to your home, trying to kill you, and the “distant observer” of that “struggle” just sees that “everybody is fighting for their own interest” — which is true, but far away from the full truth.
Oliver K
Yemen has untouched reserves of oil. Saudi Arabia is seeing it’s reserves being depleted. It therefore invades Yemen in order to grab the oil. The invasion was basically a fiasco. The Saudis now don’t know how to finish this war, while the West looks on, pretending it sees nothing.
“And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones; and his soul
Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;”
Henry V Act 1 Scene 2
Many people have overlooked the facts (all easily verified with just a few hours of seaching public records) that Yemen has been the testing ground for some very powerful new weapons systems for several years.
Many nations have a presence in Yemen.
The major players have been the Saudis (obviously), the British, the US, the Israelis, and the Iranians.
There are of course other players, including the ubiquitous Turkish “pet terrorists” which now feature in every conflict throughout the Middle East – from Armenia in the North to Libya in the west, and to Yemen in the South (and maybe also Germany soon if Erdogans threats are to be believed).
However the British – yet again – feature strongly in the conflict in Yemen. The British have many very old and quite involved contracts with the Saudis and have openly “assisted” (official term) the Saudi Air Force locate, track, and target the Houthis and Iranian Advisors in Yemen. It is however (strongly) suspected that British “advisors” and “trainers” have even gone so far as to actually crew Saudi Warplanes on combat missions – pilots or navigators. This was a development which seemed to come about after Saudi Pilots consistantly failed to take out high value targets when they were handed to them on a plate by US/UK/Israeli intel.
The US should really need no explaination with their assistance to the Saudis – together they form the nucleus of the Petro-Dollar system afterall. Not everyone is aware that the US have warships using advanced radar and drones off the coast of Yemen helping the Saudis pin-point Houthis – the US ships are explained away as being on “anti-Piracy” patrols.
However few realise that the US also test new systems or upgrades through the Saudis and by extension through the conflict in Yemen. Potentially an improved Patriot missile and / or radar is now being tested too (for potential deployment to Iraq and Ukraine?).
Remember, the US spend Saudi oil “investments” on all sorts of systems and even projects.
Israel are also known to be in Yemen. They make little secret that they will counter Iranian teams (in this case mostly R&D teams) whereever they may pose a threat to Israeli interests.
Iran is very heavily involved in supporting the Houthis – going so far as to create factories and other facilities to make weapons inside Yemen, such as guided drones and missiles. This technology and the knowledge base is transferable to Lebanon, to Syria, etc, so it is a very big deal for the Israelis who do wish to see it developed, much less transfered.
The Israelis also supply the Saudis with more direct intel and technical support than the vast majority know, and may have even “assisted” the Saudis fly missions aganst Iranian backed command and control centres – although there is only speculation on this, unlike the British involvement which is public domain.
The Iranians are obviously and publically very “supportive” of the Houthis and provide significant intel support in addition to technical and material support, indeed the semi-permanent Iranian base in the form of a ship in the Red Sea (and recently attacked lightly – as is usual with these things between Iran and Israel – was believed to providing intel to forces inside Yemen). Incidently, the Israeli “cargo” ship lightly hit by Iran earlier was also belived to be an intel vessel.
I could go on with this, but suffice to say, Yemen is in many ways analagous to the Syrian conflict, sans the Russians. The same players are inside Yemen all pursuing thier own agendas in their unique way.
In the simplist terms, the Iranians practice defeating the best US and Israeli detection and interception equipment with ever more capable vehicles assembled inside Yemen, whilst the US and Israel practice defeating Iranian equipment and personal with ever more sophisticated equipment. The British gain valuable ground attack data and experience for thier planned adventure in Ukraine “training” and “advising” the Ukrainians facing ‘Russian Agression’.
On a side note, arguably the most dramatic weapons test carried out inside Yemen was when a deep-bunker-busting munition of unknown type was dropped by an unknown airforce (Saudi Arabia took the credit but both Israel and the UK were suspected as being responsible):
https://youtu.be/hSEmkGDDZkA
This explosion was very similar to other large explosions which occured later inside Syria as a result of Israeli airstrikes, so the Yemen explosion may well have been Israel testing a new bunker buster under cover of a Saudi mission. The jury is still out on that one, however the initial and very dramatic suspiscion the bomb could have been a low yield Neutron device has now all but been put to bed as most experts seem to agree it was a convential device ‘touching off’ rocket fuel and muntions.
Watch Yemen through the eyes of a different lens and it will be clear that the usual suspects are very active in this conflict – a sort of live weapons testing laboratory.
Finally, the only other observation I will make is the complete failure of the Saudi attempts to develop a foreign legion of “pet terrorists” in the image of Turkey. This may be because Turkey has already recruited and deployed the best (or at least the most trainable “pets”) in the region, leaving Saudi to recruit only the left overs.
As always Russians did not help Yemen who could be their natural allies.
In fact Russia has been hobnobbing with anglo stooge Saudi Arabia.
Very disgraceful loser attitude of Russia to lose allies.
Putin’s treachery
How putin backstabbed Iran to please Americans.
Can you rely on Russia?
Anglos made sure that world sees the unreliability of being dependent on Russian as an ally.
“Putin offered Bush superior sites for a radar to monitor Iran. Bush refused and insisted on a site that monitored Russia as least as well. After that, Putin lost trust in US intentions. Bush screwed up so much.”
April 15 2021.
Who is laughing now Mr Saudi?