This
Associated Press story has quite a slant.
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Looking into
the AP report we find that the "watchdog group" is actually a for-profit company with an anti-Iran agenda and paid by the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, together with Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Britain, is waging war on Yemen and sees Iran as an enemy:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Roadside bombs
disguised as rocks in Yemen bear similarities to others used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and by insurgents in Iraq and Bahrain, suggesting at the least an
Iranian influence in their manufacture,
a watchdog group said on Monday.
The report by
Conflict Armament Research comes as the West and United Nations researchers accuse Iran of supplying arms to Yemen’s Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who have held the country’s capital since September 2014.
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What we’re hoping this does is make plausible deniability not very plausible,” said
Tim Michetti, head of regional operations for Conflict Armament Research. “You can’t really deny this anymore once the components these things are made with are traced to Iranian distributors.”
Michetti’s organization, an
independent watchdog group that receives
funding from the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the European Union to research weaponry recovered in Yemen, said it examined a fake rock bomb in January near Mokha, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of the capital, Sanaa.
Conflict Armament Research is not an "independent watchdog group" but a dully established British for-profit company
registered at the British government's Companies House under company number 07762809. The sole owner is James Bevan, a British national born in 1977.
Cont. reading: Arms Research "Watchdog Group" Lobbies For War On Yemen And Iran
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March 26, 2018
more money for U.S. missile defense:
The Pentagon would spend an additional $1 billion on two of Lockheed’s missile defense systems, bringing total appropriations for the Missile Defense Agency to $11.5 billion.
More U.S. taxpayer money
will also be given to missile defense contractors in Israel:
Congress has dramatically increased its budget for the Israeli missile defense programs by $148 million to include ongoing Iron Dome and Arrow 3 development.
“I am pleased and excited to announce that the US Congress has approved a record sum for Israel’s missile defense program: $705m. in 2018!” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced on Monday.
Two incidents last night provide again that missile defense is a waste of money. It hardly ever works. Strategic missile defense, which the U.S. builds to take down intercontinental missiles, will not protect against the new weapons Russia and others are now pursuing. The U.S. military
acknowledges this. After Putin
announced the new weapon systems the Trump administration
raised the white flag and suddenly asked for
new arms control talks.
Last night the Yemeni army
launched (vid) seven ballistic missiles against Saudi Arabia. Three of those targeted the capital Riyadh, four were aimed at military and infrastructure targets. In Riyadh the Saudi forces fired a a number of Patriot surface-to-air missiles and claimed that those successfully intercepted the Yemeni missiles. The Saudis Patriot Advanced Capabilities-2 system (PAC-2) are made by the U.S. company Raytheon which also
hires former U.S. soldiers as 'Patriot Battery Systems Technician Field Engineers' to
man and maintain the Saudi systems.
Earlier Saudi claims of successful intercepts
turned out to be false. The small warheads of the Yemeni missiles separate from the larger missile body and are difficult to detect. The U.S. provided systems inevitably aims at the bigger empty missile body.
This time
various videos from Riyadh show that at least seven interceptors were fired against the three incoming missiles. At least two of the interceptors failed catastrophically. The other five seem to have self-destruct at height. There is no sign of any real interception.
One of the Patriot interceptors prematurely exploded during its boost phase. Its burning debris showered the ground with hot parts.
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Another Patriot interceptor
made a u-turn and struck the ground some hundred meters away from random onlookers:
Cont. reading: Two Failures In One Day - Missile Defense Is An Embarrassment - It Won't Work
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