U.S., Saudi Military Forces Failed to Detect Attack on Oil Facilities
Posted by M. C. on September 18, 2019
U.S. and Saudi officials didn’t anticipate a strike from inside Iran, officials said, rather than through one of its proxy forces or elite military units.
It sounds better than admitting complete incompetence.
flew low to the ground on their way to slamming into the heart of the Saudi oil industry early Saturday.
So the first thing to go in an Iran war will be completely unprotected Saudi refineries.
This should give us a clue regarding how this war will go.
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WASHINGTON—U.S. and Saudi military forces and their elaborate air-defense systems failed to detect the launch of airstrikes aimed at Saudi Arabian oil facilities, allowing dozens of drones and missiles to hit their targets, U.S. officials said.
Saudi and U.S. focus had been largely on the kingdom’s southern border with Yemen, where Riyadh has been fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen’s civil war, the officials said. The attacks, however, originated from Iranian territory in the northern Persian Gulf, people familiar with the investigation into the strikes said.
As Saudi officials review information coming in from the U.S., Kuwait and their own investigators, they are increasingly confident that drones and missiles launched near Iran’s southern border with Iraq flew low to the ground on their way to slamming into the heart of the Saudi oil industry early Saturday…
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