The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile struck a terminal at Riyadh’s airport Sunday, a day after a missile attack killed 13 people and injured 309.
An unidentified projectile struck Saudi Arabia’s main international airport Sunday, injuring people a day after a deadly missile attack at the same site raised questions about whether the United States would join another conflict in the region.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed the death of a Pakistani resident and injuries to 11 others in the new attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It said authorities were assessing damage and checking the safety of airport facilities.
The Saudi-led coalition said the projectile struck Terminal 4, causing a fire that authorities were working to control. It also reported intercepting and destroying a cruise missile near the airport.
You are quite right except that most dont know the houthis practice a unique version of Islam that is neither sunni nor shiite. Saudi Arabia has been trying to colonize them for generations now in part because Saudi Arabia wants to dictate Islam. They court Iranian support not because of religion but because Yemen has been facing Saudi pressure for ages now.
I must admit I didn’t know that either. But I do know that Saudi Arabia has tried to be an influence on Islam, and they are leveraging Mecca for that.
Most dont realize the House of Saud invaded Mecca and Medina to occupy it, they didn’t get it out of some benevolent religious process.
Edit: in fact they allied with extremist tribes that believed in a literal reading of the Quran and when they took over mecca they aggressively removed the pluralist, multi-school institutions and the indigenous practitioners which were much more allegorical in their reading. Fast forward today and most Islamic groups have been pushed further to the extreme as a result.
Do you have any further reading on this? I would love to learn more.
The Houthis are real men, the saudis are soft.