{"id":6823,"date":"2015-03-25T19:14:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2015-03-25T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:17:46","slug":"another-middle-east-war-breaks-out-us-supported-saudi-arabia-begins-bombing-yemen-tanks-cross-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6823","title":{"rendered":"Another Middle East War Breaks Out: US-Supported Saudi Arabia Begins Bombing Yemen, Tanks Cross Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-25\/another-middle-east-war-breaks-out-saudi-arabia-begins-bombing-yemen\" target=\"_blank\">Another Middle East War Breaks Out: US-Supported Saudi Arabia Begins Bombing Yemen, Tanks Cross Border<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0US providing support to Saudi Arabia &#8211; US Official\u00a0<em>(so US weapons are being used on both sides)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-25\/armed-us-weapons-yemen-rebels-advance-president-saudi-arabia-prepares-war\">today we reported that<\/a>, on very short notice, Saudi Arabia had moved heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, &#8220;raising the risk that the Middle East\u2019s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict.&#8221; In other words, Saudi Arabia was preparing for war.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, but before Yemen&#8217;s president\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-25\/armed-us-weapons-yemen-rebels-advance-president-saudi-arabia-prepares-war\">bravely fled the country\u00a0<\/a>over fears of the Houthi rebel advance, Yemen&#8217;s foreign minister called for Arab military intervention against advancing Shiite rebels.<\/p>\n<p>As we explicitly warned, &#8220;<strong>the conflict risked spiraling into a proxy war with Shi&#8217;ite Iran backing the Houthis, whose leaders adhere Shi&#8217;ite Islam, and Saudi Arabia and the other regional Sunni Muslim monarchies backing Hadi<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moments ago all these warnings were borne out when Al-Arabiya reported that the latest middle-east war is now official after Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf States had launched a bombing campaign against Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>More details:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Middle East War Breaks Out: US-Supported Saudi Arabia Begins Bombing Yemen, Tanks Cross Border UPDATE:\u00a0US providing support to Saudi Arabia &#8211; US Official\u00a0(so US weapons are being used on both sides) Earlier\u00a0today we reported that, on very short notice, Saudi Arabia had moved heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4418,4417,3504,522,701,1633,1899,862,901],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arab-gulf-states","tag-hadi","tag-houthis","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia","tag-sunni","tag-war","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6825,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}