By JON GAMBRELL
Updated 10:29 PM EDT, April 18, 2025
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. airstrike on an important oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed more than 70 people and wounded many others, the Iranian-backed rebel group said Friday, marking a major escalation in the military campaign President Donald Trump launched against the faction last month.



The overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks. It was the first American attack on a Houthi-controlled oil facility in the new U.S. bombing campaign. It also came just before the resumption of negotiations in Rome between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, which Washington has linked to its attacks in Yemen.

The U.S. is targeting the Houthis because of the group’s attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route, and on Israel. The Houthis are the last militant group in Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” that is capable of regularly attacking Israel.

The port is a major hub for incoming fuel shipments that power areas of Yemen held by the Houthis, and analysts say the airstrike could seriously affect daily life there.

The Houthis, who said the attack killed at least 74 people and wounded 171 others, aired graphic footage of the aftermath on their al-Masirah satellite news channel, showing corpses strewn about the port and smashed tanker trucks. They denounced the strike as a “completely unjustified aggression.”

https://apnews.com/article/yem...be415d78644b3a9fa691

These Stone Age savages, like all radical islamists, have no place in this world. As a species, we are well past the point of allowing their death cult to exist.

A few more like that should go a long way to destroying most of their important infrastructure.

A nice thing to wake up to on a Saturday.

Arc Light the Houthis. And the rest of Yemen, since they shelter these animals.

The War Party has to keep the grift going….

I’m all for dead pirates. Don’t care what kind of pirate. But I’m strongly against playing stupid games to keep the pirates going.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
The War Party has to keep the grift going….

I’m all for dead pirates. Don’t care what kind of pirate. But I’m strongly against playing stupid games to keep the pirates going.

I may have you confused with another member that starts with an A that loves the Ukranie war and wants us to continue to poor billions into it, no?

HAKA LAKA NOCKA CHAKA DURKA DURKA JIHAD!!

https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/1913847103501062390

That was was pretty funny. I love gesticulation that went along with it.

I read and speak Hebrew.

He said:"HAKA LAKA NOCKA CHAKA DURKA DURKA JIHAD!!"


Actually...

"America is the mother of terrorism and the mother of those who support terrorism.
She is the mother of ISIS and the mother of al-Qaeda.
She bombed us.

**She supports terrorism and supports... then she says she defends freedom. She supports terrorism and supports ISIS.
She created ISIS. She created the Al-Qaeda and it created terrorism in all Arab countries, then she says she is fighting terrorism.

May Allah take revenge on her."


(** Not sure if he was reading the Teleprompter and got ahead or if he got ahead in his extemporaneous utterance. But his feelings are hurt.)

I don’t understand what he said but he seems upset.

As an old squid, I wish we had at least one BB to park off their coast and hurt his feelings some more. Shells are cheaper than airstrikes, and what else are you going to use them for?

I think he’s mad someone else parked in his favorite parking spot and he’s an Alec Baldwin impersonator.

Next stop Iran.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
HAKA LAKA NOCKA CHAKA DURKA DURKA JIHAD!!

https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/1913847103501062390

Life’s a bitch
And then you die

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HAKA LAKA NOCKA CHAKA DURKA DURKA JIHAD!!

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Next stop Iran.

What happened to the campaign speeches about being a peacetime president and a negotiator?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
HAKA LAKA NOCKA CHAKA DURKA DURKA JIHAD!!

I agree with Robert Heinlein’s observation that violence has settled more issues than any other factor, and for many reasons perhaps I’m more of a war hawk than many of my generation. But when I see other countries that should be attacked mentioned, I cannot help but wonder how it fits with the complaints we’ve so long heard about “forever wars.” Do people understand why the US has been involved in conflicts that never seem to end?

My opinion is it is the "policing method" of maintaining some control or direction over destructive influence.

Not unlike a pressure relief valve, or a reservoir dam, that "holds back and meters flow".

Unfortunate if the "flood of influence" is greater and continual, that the effect of such "withholding" becomes detrimental should the "dam" fail.

And the greater problem is the reality that too many people simply don't give a shit if the individual is not negatively impacted (or the perception is that they are not impacted), that the "police" cannot take the gloves off and leave them off, and crush such influence at first blush.

I like nature's approach.

Fuck with it and know.

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Originally posted by HuskySig:

What happened to the campaign speeches about being a peacetime president and a negotiator?

Implying something? Don't dance or pussyfoot around. Come out and say it.