On Sunday, Saudi Arabia was struggling to get out in front of a helicopter attack in northern Yemen straight. Attack helicopters came across the Saudi border into a Shi’ite town, killing 30 civilians. Though the Saudis initially touted the incident as killing “rebels,” they later denied it ever happened.
On Monday, their attention turned south, with Saudi warplanes launching a series of airstrikes against a wedding party in Mocha, killing another 131 civilians in one of the single deadliest incidents of the entire war and leading to a flurry of international condemnation.
Saudi officials figured out by Tuesday this huge toll was a problem, and followed the well-tested strategy of simply claiming it didn’t happen, but the reality is that with massive civilian killings by Saudi aircraft a near daily occurrence, the denials are less credible than ever, and claims by the Saudi Foreign Ministry of their care in avoiding civilian deaths ring insultingly hollow.
While the US backing for the Saudi War has kept criticism to a minimum so far, the patience is wearing thing as the war drags on and the atrocities mount. Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, loathe to point the finger at anybody, conceded yesterday that while both sides in Yemen are guilty of targeting civilians, the Saudi airstrikes are causing many more casualties.
Direct US involvement in the war also risks making this huge civilian toll America’s problem, with Rep. Ted Lieu (D – CA), a former Air Force judge advocate general, pressing Gen. Joseph Dunford on whether the Pentagon is keeping track of the civilian toll in airstrikes they are facilitating, adding that at this point it’s clear that the Saudi-led coalition is either “grossly negligent or intentionally targeting civilians.”
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
The Saudis conduct in this war is quickly making it lose whatever little moral stature most Muslims around the world may have accorded it as being the place of our Islamic holy sites. Saudi religious authorities', by not speaking out against this kind of killing of innocent civilians and massive destruction of homes factories, monuments and infrastructures, is shameful and equally to blame. Can any of them honestly say that they are conducting this war in a way that upholds the Qur'an and the example of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH)? The clear answer is "No"!
Israel been denying the killing of children, mothers, fathers, the elderly pople, destroying Palestinians homes, schools, hospitals and other infrastructures for last 65 years, Saudis King and his regimes just learning from their masters.
Saudi satanic — Baby wasters
This has to be the all time greatest crime against civilians in a war zone, with babies being the high value targets what with Saudi Dictator knowing full well that weddings have the highest concentration of babies.
For a Yemen democracy on the Saudi border would be the danger of a good example and give much support to a democratic Revolution.
"…Rep. Ted Lieu…pressing Gen. Joseph Dunford on whether the Pentagon is keeping track of the civilian toll in airstrikes they are facilitating…"
Such a coward. Lieu is giving Dunford an escape path. The bottom line is the US is actively and openly supporting the Saudis and the Saudis are targeting civilians. Whether the atrocities happen on specific sorties is irrelevant. The US is in up to their eyeballs. The stink of war crimes is on everyone even remotely attached to these actions. Of course, with the US's own stumbling through the war crimes swamp and their attempts to justify them what would one expect.
There is no such thing as "slightly pregnant!!!"