Saudi-led coalition jets kill 20 at a wake in Yemen: residents

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

SANAA (Reuters) - Jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 20 people at a wake in northern Yemen on Sunday, local tribesmen said, as warplanes pounded Houthis and other forces behind a missile strike that had killed dozens of Gulf Arab soldiers.

The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, across the country and hit a Houthi base in what had been the al-Imam University, a religious school in northern Sanaa, locals said.

But residents said the deadliest strike was in al-Jouf province north of Sanaa, where warplanes hit a wake for a local who had been killed by Houthi gunfire, in what was apparently an accidental strike by the coalition.

A spokesman for the coalition could not immediately be reached for a comment.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-led-coalition-jets-bomb-houthis-yemeni-capital-095831346.html

[delrem]

1. They learn from the best. nt

[Gore1FL]

3. I thought we bombed marriages. n/t

[hedda_foil]

4. Yeah. Always bomb weddings first. Then you get 2 clans wanting revenge.

Funeral bombing is ok if you can't find a wedding to target, but there's usually just one family involved. Not as much bang for the buck.

[Sunlei]

7. probably off Cheney and Bushes list of "How to make a country hate your country the fastest"

[bemildred]

5. As long as it's a crowd, that's the main thing, those missiles are expensive.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Attacking funeral processions is so "Godfather, Part II".

So, yes, they could have learned that from us.

But they can probably select targets all on their own, they have much experience.

[Fred Sanders]

2. "Coalition" of one country...the brutal Saudi dictatorship. That is a word they learned to use from

the same nation that supplied them all the weapons and trained the pilots to shoot.

[Sunlei]

6. Qatar has just sent in 1,000 ground troops and they will be equally as brutal in Yemen.