What Do The Houthis Want? Houthi Mahu Apa Lagi?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threw up a red herring  that the Iranians fired a ballistic missile to hit that Aramco refinery at Abqaiq (Buqayq) in eastern Saudi Arabia. 

An unsubstantiated statement like this certainly helps the Saudi Crown Prince Mr Bone Saw keep his head on his shoulders. 

The Saud can use Pompeo's statement to look less foolish in Saudi Arabia - that they were not defeated by rag tag Houthis wearing flip flops but instead they were struck by the Iranians.

Even the Saudis have not said that they were hit by ballistic missiles or that the missiles came from Iran. 

The map here shows that Iran is to the east, Yemen is way over in the south west (from Iran) and the Aramco plants that were hit are in the middle there. 

There is a US Navy base in Bahrain (under that red blob) and there is a really huge US Army base in Dhahran, also near that red blob.

Any ballistic missiles fired from any part of Iran towards those Aramco coordinates would have flown over these US military bases which have radar and other detection equipment. They would have certainly detected any ballistic missile launches and also be able to track them.   Which neither the US Navy,  US Airforce or Saudi radar was able to do.  

This is not the first long range attack by the Houthis. In May the Houthis struck an oil pipeline that cuts across Saudi Arabia, using the same drones.

For a list of long range Houthi drone attacks into Saudi Arabia please click here. 

No one said any of those other attacks were by Iranian ballistic missiles. 

In July last year the Houthis also struck the Abu Dhabi airport, which the UAE denied.

The Houthis have in their possession a range of drones. Here is an example :

What do the Houthis want ? The Houthis have already made it clear   -   'Stop bombing our country !!' 

Spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, General Yahya Sare'a, said  Saudi Arabia should stop its "aggression and blockade on Yemen".

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Yemen's Supreme Political Council, pledged that Yemeni forces will continue to pound the Saudi oil industry until the kingdom ends its deadly war.

Isnt that a fair request? Stop bombing my country and I will stop retaliating against your aggression.

Hence western media statements that  :    'The violence is complicating U.N.-led efforts to ease tensions between the Houthis and Riyadh to pave the way for political talks to end the war, which has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed millions to the brink of famine'

is just hogwash. Just stop bombing Yemen. What is so complicated about that?

And here is the easy part - why not the United Nations just tell the people who have  "killed tens of thousands of people and pushed millions to the brink of famine'  in Yemen to stop doing exactly that. 

That would include the Saudis, the 'coalition', the US Airforce and the British. (I am assuming that the RMAF has packed up and left - kan begitu Abang Mat?)