{"id":182564,"date":"2015-08-09T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/09\/this-is-about-to-go-all-pear-shaped\/"},"modified":"2015-08-09T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:01:00","slug":"this-is-about-to-go-all-pear-shaped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/09\/this-is-about-to-go-all-pear-shaped\/","title":{"rendered":"This is About to Go All Pear Shaped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because their indiscriminate bombing of civilians has failed to secure &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/international\/mideast-africa\/2015\/08\/03\/united-arab-emirates\/31070305\/\">the Saudi led coalition is sending in ground troops<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An Arab coalition source confirmed to Defense News that 2,800 troops landed in Yemen on Aug. 2 and are targeting the country&#8217;s largest military base.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The coalition source stated that the forces \u2014 comprised mostly of Saudi special operations, intelligence and logistics personnel \u2014 are placed to secure Aden and take over Al-Anad military base north of Aden.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The units are also supported by personnel and equipment from the United Arab Emirates and trained Yemeni fighters,&#8221; the source said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Images of LeClerc main battle tanks, which are operated by the UAE land forces and Presidential Guard strike force, BMP armored vehicles, and M-ATVs being offloaded at a port in the southern city of Aden appeared on social media Sunday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In what I am sure is a completely unrelated development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/deadly-suicide-blast-strikes-saudi-security-forces-at-mosque-near-yemen\/2015\/08\/06\/2bb6a042-3c36-11e5-a312-1a6452ac77d2_story.html\">a suicide bomber struck a mosque inside Saudi Arabia near the Yemenese border<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A suicide bomber struck Thursday at a Saudi mosque used by security forces near the border with war-<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">battered Yemen, officials said, killing more than a dozen people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Islamic State asserted responsibility for the attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks online activities of militant groups. The blast follows a spate of suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia claimed by the Islamic State.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It also comes as Saudi Arabia and its allies have escalated their four-month-old war against rebel forces in Yemen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The official Saudi Press Agency said that at least 10 security personnel and three workers were killed in the mosque blast, which occurred in the southern Asir region.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The House of Saud, concerned about nothing beyond their eternal war against the Shia, are actively aiding ISIS and al Qaeda by bombing their most determined opponents and completely unsurprisingly, ISIS uses this fact to further their campaign against the Saudis.<\/p>\n<p>This has fail written all over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because their indiscriminate bombing of civilians has failed to secure &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221;, the Saudi led coalition is sending in ground troops: An Arab coalition source confirmed to Defense News that 2,800 troops landed in Yemen on Aug. 2 and are targeting the country&#8217;s largest military base.The coalition source stated that the forces \u2014 comprised &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1031,986,1021,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-house-of-saud","category-middle-east","category-religion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}