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Old 15th Sep 2019, 14:05
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Originally Posted by Asturias56
Might have had local help.............. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49705197

One element of the Houthi statement on the attacks did however thank "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".

The Wall Street Journal has said experts are investigating whether the attacks could have been carried out from the north - either by Iran or its Shia allies in Iraq - using cruise missiles rather than drones. If so, it seems unlikely they would have escaped detection.

The Washington Post said the US government believed that 15 buildings at Abqaiq had been damaged on the west-northwest sides, not the southern sides facing Yemen.

A 2018 UN report concluded that the Houthis' Qatef-1 suicide drone was "virtually identical" to Iran's Ababil-T. The Ababil-T is considered a low-tech drone with a maximum range of about 150km (93 miles). The distance from the nearest point of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border to the closest target - Khurais - is about 770km. On Sunday, Iraq denied its territory had been used to launch the attacks.
Bearing in mind that the Saudi's have been attacking and destroying Shia villages and towns in Saudi for the last couple of years with the western Media staing silent then it is pretty eacy for them to find help.

Saudi's will find this will be happening again and again.
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