{"id":195583,"date":"2019-09-30T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195583"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:24:48","slug":"saudi-vehicles-destroyed-saudi-led-troops-officers-taken-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195583","title":{"rendered":"Saudi vehicles destroyed, Saudi-led troops &#038; officers taken prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">RT \u2013 Sept 30, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_195584\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthis-and-captured-Saudi-armoured-vehicle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195584\" class=\"wp-image-195584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthis-and-captured-Saudi-armoured-vehicle-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthis-and-captured-Saudi-armoured-vehicle-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthis-and-captured-Saudi-armoured-vehicle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthis-and-captured-Saudi-armoured-vehicle-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Houthis-and-captured-Saudi-armoured-vehicle.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houthis and captured Saudi armoured vehicle. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yemeni Houthi rebels have released footage of what they say was a victorious offensive on the border with Saudi Najran province. It shows scores of captured military troops, including what seem to be Saudi officers, and hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The footage was broadcast on the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV channel on Sunday. The video features a Houthi spokesman explaining the details of the military operation, which they\u2019d dubbed \u2018Victory from God,\u2019 as well as live action footage from the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The offensive began a couple of days ago but is said to have been planned over several months. Three Saudi-led brigades were ultimately led into a major ambush, the spokesman claimed. The battle against the brigades \u2013 said to be some 7,000-strong in total \u2013 took place on Yemeni soil close to the border with the Saudi Arabian province of Najran.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLmZen8lVBw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/469890-saudis-captured-houthi-offensive-video\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Commentary \u2013 Sept 30, 2019<\/h2>\n<h5>As more reports come in it begins to look as if the Houthi rebels have indeed scored some battlefield success against the Saudi-led forces. The above RT report only adds to this. However, that\u2019s not what the BBC would have you believe.<\/h5>\n<h5>Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, the BBC suggests otherwise. Without offering any evidence, the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-49866677\">BBC insinuates<\/a><\/span> that the videos and footage fail to conclusively show a Houthi rebel victory.<\/h5>\n<h5>According to a BBC in a report entitled \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-49866677\">Houthi rebels video fails to prove Saudi troop capture claim<\/a><\/span>\u201d:<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c\u2026 the video broadcast on Sunday instead shows what appear to be rebels firing at vehicles on a road.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;This is followed by footage of several burnt-out vehicles, as well as assorted light weaponry laid out on the ground and a group of men not in military uniforms marching down a dirt road.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>What the BBC fails to say is that the Saudis have recruited and paid some local tribesmen to do the fighting; directed by Saudi commanders &#8212; who are in turn assisted by<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/18\/the-saudis-couldnt-do-it-without-us-the-uks-true-role-in-yemens-deadly-war\">UK\/US \u201cmilitary advisors and contractors\u201d<\/a><\/span> &#8212; in far away command centres.<\/h5>\n<h5>That\u2019s why the footage shows \u201ca group of men not in military uniforms marching down a dirt road\u201d. They are not professional soldiers but locally recruited mercenaries.<\/h5>\n<h5>The BBC fails to point this out because in this instance it is promoting disinformation on behalf of the Saudis.<\/h5>\n<h5>This is what BBC viewers pay for when they pay their compulsory annual TV licence fee, they are helping subsidise propaganda broadcast for the ruling Saudi regime.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more photos and footage appear to show battlefield success for the Houthi rebels, BBC licence fee payers are helping to subsidise Saudi disinformation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42,58,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Current_Affairs","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195589,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195583\/revisions\/195589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}