Ansarullah Reprisal Operations: Yemen Strikes Saudi Airports

10 years after Sana’a funeral hall atrocity, the Saudis are still slaughtering civilians. But their American sponsor is fleeing the region.

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Press TV: Good evening. Today, October the 8th, marks ten years since one of the deadliest attacks of the Yemen war, when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a packed funeral hall in the capital Sana’a, killing and wounding hundreds. Ten years later, Saudi Arabia is once again escalating its military campaign in Yemen, and Ansarullah is responding with attacks reaching deep inside the Saudi territory. The latest ballistic missile strike targeted King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh following deadly attacks on Saudi airports earlier this week. So, is Ansarullah’s reprisal strategy creating a new deterrent against Saudi aggression? Or is Yemen heading toward an even wider regional war?

That’s what we’ll be discussing tonight with our guests. Ali Hamieh joining us, military and strategic affairs analyst from the capital, Beirut. And also joining us will be Kevin Barrett, editor of Al-Andalus Tribune joining us from Saidia, Morocco. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me at this hour. I’m going to begin with our guest in Beirut.

Mr. Hamieh, thank you so much for your time tonight. We have 10 years on the massacre and the funeral of Sana’a. What does this anniversary, Mr. Hamia, tell us about the roots of the current confrontation that we are witnessing between Saudi Arabia and Yemen?

Ali Hamieh: Let’s say that the 8th of October is 24 hours away from 7th of October. And we can see that Yemen and Palestine are under the category of oppressed people, one from the Israelis, and the other by the proxies of the Israelis and the Americans, the Saudis and the GCC countries.

And we can see all goals go into the same target: how to protect Israel and how to protect the American interests and the American military bases in the region. And it’s all connected.

Every time we hear about American withdrawal from anyplace…Didn’t we hear that the United States withdrew from Iraq about 15 years ago, 2011? So what are they withdrawing from right now? And we can see that the main goal is attacking Yemen. It’s by American dictation. And for Israelis benefit. And also this is the condition for Mohammed bin Salman to become a king. He has to get into a war against Yemen in order to satisfy the Israelis and the Americans.

Press TV: That’s right. Mr. Barrett, thank you so much for your time tonight as well. I wanted your broad takeaway when it comes to the escalation and tit-for-tat strikes between the Yemeni military and also Saudi Arabia. What is happening on the ground? And what is the role of the Americans here? We talked about this before, that there are about 200 U.S. military strategists that are helping Riyadh with its military operations. Your thoughts on that as well?

Kevin Barrett: Yes, it’s not surprising that Riyadh has had to depend on outside help for its military operations. This is a longstanding pattern, and essentially it’s because this society is not really an organic, coherent society with leadership representing a people or a nation. It’s basically a warlord family that was put in place by the British imperialists and maintained in place by the American imperialists. And so they’ve long been depending on foreign support, mainly American support, although they did get French Special Forces to help them attack some people who had been trying to take over the holy city of Mecca at one point.

And they have used other help as well. They’ve apparently gotten covert Israeli help and betrayed the Muslim Ummah by doing so. And now we’ve got these hundreds of American so-called advisors helping them, the way American advisors ran the war in Vietnam when they were secretly infiltrating smaller numbers of mercenaries before they went in big time.

But this time the American empire is on its way out. And so the leadership in Riyadh really should think hard about whether it wants to join itself at the hip to this foreign power that’s been running roughshod over the region and killing millions of people in the region and supporting the genocide of Palestine.

And now that great power, the United States, is pulling out of the region. And it’s even pulling out of Britain, according to major media stories here in the United States, because Britain, too, is within reach of Iranian strikes. So they’re leaving the West Asia region.

US imperial retreat from West Asia is the theme of this week’s False Flag Weekly News

The Americans may or may not feel the need to go to war with China to try to decide the issue of who is the supreme global hegemon. But they’re not going to be there to keep propping up the Saudi royal family for very long. And so this is really a bad move by the Saudis, because they are setting themselves up for trouble. They’re trying to bring in this new alliance with Turkey and Pakistan, but I don’t think Turkey and Pakistan have any interest in sending major military forces to the Arabian Peninsula to try to prop up this unpopular and corrupt regime in Riyadh.

So Yemen is fighting to liberate the Arabian Peninsula, and if there can’t be some kind of compromise, then they’re going to have to go all the way.

Press TV: Mr. Hamieh, you listened to our other guest’s analysis here. When it comes to what is happening right now on the ground, also Ansar al-Allah today said that it targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. My question is, what is the significance of taking the fight into the aviation infrastructure of Saudi Arabia right now?

Ali Hamieh: Well, let’s first make a comparison between the Yemenis and Saudis. First of all, the Yemenis are fighting as Yemenis. And they are fighting with their own weapon they produced. Saudi Arabia is fighting with mercenaries. And they are fighting via American and Israeli intelligence and with the help of Turkey, Turkey and Pakistan.

And the Saudis are asking the help of all GCC countries to counterattack, and for aggression against Yemen again and again. So if we make such a comparison, we shouldn’t forget that most of the air defense systems are being destroyed or used by the Americans to protect Israel and to protect the American military bases in the region. Saudi Arabia is totally naked. They have their space naked. They are out of interceptors against the Yemeni’s Ansarullah missiles. So I believe Saudi Arabia is going into a pond and they will sink into the mud. They cannot survive. Yemen is like quicksand. They are swallowing most of the Saudi power.. We should not forget that 38 brigades at the beginning of this Saudi aggression against Yemen had surrounded the Yemenis, and were targeted. Three brigades were captured as POWs in eight hours—only eight hours at the beginning of this Saudi aggression against Yemen. AnsarUllah took back 5,400 square kilometers up to Bab al-Mandab city and Mayun Island in the middle of the Red Sea. So the Yemenis are taking new steps right now. They are not only defending themselves, they want to see that if they are not allowed to fly any of their airlines, which have been destroyed by Saudi Arabia, and they are not allowed to have any trades with outsiders, then Saudi Arabia will also be under Yemeni sanction. And today King Khaled Airport, which is the main international airport in Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, is under Ansarullah attack. Yemen is saying that “if we are under embargo and under sanctions, it will be the same for Saudi Arabia.”

Press TV: Mr. Barrett, a general question on the analysis. We have been hearing it for a very long time, since the 12-day war, that the Israeli regime, the U.S., and right now we are hearing from Saudi Arabia, that they are running out of interceptor missiles. How serious should we take these reports, considering that it has been said for a very long time? Is there evidence on the ground that this is actually true?

Kevin Barrett: There is the debate about how accurate the interceptors are in the first place. Theodore Postol stakes out one extreme position, arguing that they’re not very useful at all. But the majority of analysts seem to think that the interceptors do actually work, and it’s just a matter of how many of them that have to be fired to try to stop an incoming missile or drone. And the United States is certainly running very low on these, as well as a long list of other items of military equipment and ammunition. And this is supposedly one of the reasons why military leaders have approached Trump and told him that he has to stop his war on Iran, that we’re using up all of our ammunition, we’re not going to be able to keep our commitments elsewhere in the world, and especially in East Asia.

So I think it’s very serious. And it’s also an issue with regard to the genocidal Zionist entity, which depends upon the American help that built its so-called Iron Dome—some call it the Iron Sieve, because it’s far from perfect. And they have used up a lot of their interceptors as well.

And so if and when they jump back into this regional war that they started, and indeed I believe the Zionists started this war, now that the defenses, the interceptors, are used up, the Americans are retreating from the region. And pretty soon that genocidal entity is going to find itself naked too, just like the Saudis are now.

So I think this is very serious. That the offensive missile power of Yemen, and of course Iran, and drones of course as well, put countries like Saudi Arabia, and particularly the rich elites who have so much to lose, in a position of being completely exposed. And because they have so much more to lose, because they have all of this wealth, and because they’re cowardly and they’re not willing to lay their lives on the line for a just cause, because their cause is unjust, therefore they are going to be motivated to try to find a way out, whether it’s turning tail and fleeing and abject surrender, or whether it’s settling on unfavorable terms.

Yemen and Iran are both real countries with ancient civilizations and very cohesive societies that realize that they are being attacked by evil oppressors—the very same people who are complicit in this genocide in Palestine. Countries like Iran and Yemen are capable of fighting in a far more cohesive and determined way than these artificial societies like these little Gulf statelets, including Saudi Arabia, which again is essentially a bandit warlord family claiming title to land that really belongs to the people of the region.

Press TV: Mr. Hamieh, I wanted to put the same question to you. Is there evidence on the ground that the U.S., and Saudi Arabia, according to multiple reports, are running out of interceptor missiles?

Ali Hamieh: They are not running out, but I think they are in a critical situation. We have three kinds of reserves. You have the military reserve, the war reserve, and the strategic reserve. And I believe they are at the edge between the war reserve and the strategic reserve, because the United States is not dealing only with Iran. It might be in a war against China, against somewhere else. And especially we shouldn’t forget that the war in Ukraine needs a lot of such weapons in order to intercept Russian drones and missiles. So I believe we are into a third world war, but intermittent in place and time.

And the United States, when they say they are out of war reserves, it doesn’t mean that the strategic reserve is out. But I don’t believe they have enough time to replenish against Russia in Ukraine and against Iran in West Asia, or to export such weapons to their allies in the region.

That’s why we can see the United States is regrouping right now, not redeploying or withdrawing. They are the regrouping in Syria and in Jordan only. And believe me, you will see them being kicked out by the last war, or the ongoing war, if we can say it. And they will withdraw from all the military bases (in West Asia) not because they like to, but in order to regroup, because they brought most of the interceptors from South Korea, from Germany, from the 7th Fleet, also they’ve been getting some war vessels from the 7th Fleet into the 5th Fleet in the region. So I believe they are in a critical situation according to the limits of their power, according to their desire for expansion in the world and for the big geographical map they want to dominate. But if you consider by quantity, I believe they still have enough quantity to go into one war—but not several wars at the same time.

Press TV: One big war against China, you mean?

Ali Hamieh: Yes, I believe so, whether it is direct or indirect. And that’s why we can see that the world is (dissolving) into NATO, BRICS, alliances with Israel, the other triple alliance between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Turkey. We are at the turning point right now. The United States understands that. They cannot only gather all of their mighty power against Iran, because they also have to be somewhere else. War can be ignited at any time.

There are 13 points in the war. What’s going on in Germany, what’s going on in the UK, the American airplanes withdrawing Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Russia, and the new coalition with Afghanistan against the Americans. And you can go into more details: what’s going on in France and Romania, what’s going on between Turkey and Greece. So they are all unstable—not only our region, but the whole world is unstable. And that’s why, as I said, we are a in a third world war, but it is intermittent in place and time.

Press TV: I see. Mr. Barrett, as we are talking about extra-regional wars, Saudi Arabia has been seeking support from countries like Pakistan and Turkey as well as the U.S. First of all, will they actively enter the war, beyond what we have been seeing so far? And if that is the case, how will that change the balance of power in this aggression against Yemen?

Kevin Barrett: I don’t see Pakistan entering the war in a major way, because Pakistan has its hands full dealing with India. And Pakistan has an alliance with China, which balances India. China tilts towards Iran, and indeed Yemen, in this conflict. So for those reasons, I can’t imagine Pakistan taking a lot of its military and sending it over to the Arabian Peninsula to defend Saudi Arabia from Yemen. That wouldn’t make any sense. And likewise, I don’t think Turkey actually has much motivation to do anything other than perhaps try to stand as a symbolic guarantee against the overthrow of the regime in Riyadh. But I’m not sure that they would actually stand by that guarantee if it came to that. So no, I don’t think this alliance is really a threat to get heavily involved in the war onYemen. I can see perhaps a certain amount of involvement, probably not much more than we would call symbolic.

And this is because, as the other guest correctly said, the world is changing quickly. It’s unstable, and each country at this point is scrambling to try to support its own interests and to try to fend off the kind of threats and the insecurity that comes with this rapidly changing world. And it’s changing so rapidly because the United States, which used to be accepted, to some extent, as a sort of global cop through its system of alliances, and the international law and the United Nations that it pretended to respect, even though it usually didn’t—the world was able to tolerate that.

But now the United States is getting weaker every day, and its behavior is completely intolerable. So that era of American hegemony has decisively ended, and the world is still seeking a new set of institutions to deal with a multipolar world.

Press TV: That’s right. Thank you both, gentlemen. Those were Kevin Barrett, editor of Al-Andalus Tribune, joining us from Saidia, Morocco, and Ali Hamieh, military and strategic affairs analyst from the city of Beirut. Thank you both. And that brings us to the end o fthis edition of our Spotlight program. Thank you for joining us, and bye-bye.

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