Sanaa funeral hall attack

Twitter

 * Yemen Post Newspaper ‏@YemenPostNews on Twitter:
 * 4:12 PM '' #Breaking Funeral MASSACRE: 40 civilians killed & injured when 4 Saudi airstrikes attacked funeral home in #Yemen capital #Sanaa.
 * 4:42 PM '' #Breaking Pics: Funeral Hall ATTACK: At least 75 civilians killed & injured when Saudi airstrikes attacked funeral hall in #Yemen capital.
 * 5:13 PM '' #Breaking BLOODIEST Attack: 300+ civilians killed & injured by 4 Saudi airstrike attacks on funeral hall in #Yemen capital #Sanaa.
 * 6:01 PM '' #Breaking Pics Rescuers ATTACKED: 320 civilians killed & injured by Saudi airstrike attack on funeral hall in #Yemen capital #Sanaa.
 * 6:52 PM '' #Breaking DEADLIEST Day: 155+ civilians killed & 320 injured by Saudi airstrikes on Funeral Hall in #Yemen capital #Sanaa.
 * 8:25 PM '' #Breaking DEATH TOLL Rises: 720 civilians killed & injured today when 4 Saudi airstrikes attacked funeral hall in #Yemen capital #Sanaa.
 * 11:07 PM '' #Breaking Day of MASSACRES: 405 civilians killed & 320 injured in #Yemen today by Saudi airstrikes & missiles attacking capital #Sanaa


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Sabanews

 * http://www.saba.ye/ar/news442904.htm
 * http://www.saba.ye/ar/news442922.htm
 * http://www.saba.ye/ar/news442928.htm
 * http://www.saba.ye/ar/news442935.htm
 * http://www.saba.ye/ar/news442946.htm
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Video

 * Yemen: Huge blasts rock Sanaa; causing multiple casualties *GRAPHIC* - Ruptly TV
 * Yemen rebels say 'dozens' killed in Sanaa air raids - AFP

Videos of the actual attack (second strike):
 * Twitter, Facebook
 * Yemen - Saudi Bombing Civilians And Aid Workers in Hosseinieh - IR Shia (better quality, two videos combined.)
 * low-res copy on Youtube
 * https://twitter.com/MiddleEastOne/status/785138151975071744

Saudi denials

 * :'No coalition air role in Sanaa incident-coalition sources - Reuters, October 8, 2016
 * ''"Absolutely no such operation took place at that target," one of the sources said, citing what he described as confirmation from the coalition air force command.
 * ''"The coalition is aware of such reports and is certain that it is possible that other causes of bombing are to be considered. The coalition has in the past avoided such gatherings and (they) never been a subject of targets."
 * Yemen: Arab coalition to probe Sanaa funeral attack - Al-Jazeera, October 9, 2016
 * Airstrike kills more than 100, injures hundreds at Yemen funeral - Ali Al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, October 9, 2016
 * ''The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya satellite network, citing Saudi military sources, said the coalition did not stage the airstrike on the hall. But Saudi Arabia’s military have previously denied strikes on hospitals and other civilian areas that were later proved to have occurred.
 * Haykal Bafana ‏@BaFana3 on Twitter, October 10, 2016
 * ''Spent an evening scanning Saudi channels. Amazing - "Yemen Sanaa funeral hall was a ballistic missile attack by Ali Abdullah Saleh."
 * Yemen conflict: 'Saudi-led coalition plane' hit funeral - Frank Gardner, BBC News, October 10, 2016
 * ''Saudi Arabia has privately accepted that one of its coalition planes bombed a funeral in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday, the BBC has learned.

ISIS claims responsibility

 * Nasser Atta @nasseratta5 on Twitter, October 9, 2016
 * '' #ISIS statement:"one of our hero carried out the suicide attack in #Sanaa" that killed155, Very clear it's an air strike on the funeral hall

US role?

 * Saudis Request Huge Resupply of U.S. Air-To-Ground Weapons - Chris Pocock, Aviation International News, November 20, 2015
 * ''The request comprises: 4,020 GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided 500-pound bombs
 * British and US military 'in command room' for Saudi strikes on Yemen - The Guardian, January 15, 2016
 * ''Saudi Arabian foreign minister also reveals UK and American officials have access to lists of targets, but do not choose them
 * Statement by NSC Spokesperson Ned Price on Yemen, The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release, October 8, 2016
 * Neil Connery ‏@neilconneryitv on Twitter, October 9, 2016
 * ''ITV News finds a bomb fragment in #Sanaa funeral hall. Yemeni officer says it's a US made mark 82 bomb #Yemen.
 * U.S. and U.K. Continue to Actively Participate in Saudi War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, October 10, 2016
 * Yemen conflict: US 'could be implicated in war crimes' - BBC, October 10, 2016
 * ''The coalition denied responsibility for the attack, but Washington said it would review its support to "better align with US principles, values and interests".
 * "Yemenis Should Oppose the Saudi-Led, US-Backed War With Every Fibre of Their Being" - FARS News, October 10, 2016
 * Photos Show Fragments of U.S. Bombs at Site of Yemen Funeral Massacre - Alex Emmons, The Intercept, October 11 2016

Saudi investigation: Ok, we did it, but...
"CAIRO (AP) — An investigation team with the Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday that wrong information led to the lethal bombing of a packed funeral in the Yemeni capital Sanaa last weekend, which killed around 140 people and wounded more than 600.
 * Saudi-led coalition blames Yemeni party for funeral bombing - AP, October 15, 2016

The Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) accused "a party affiliated to the Yemeni Presidency of the General Chief of Staff" of passing wrong information that the hall was packed with Houthi leaders, whom the coalition has been targeting since their militias swept the capital last year and forced Yemen's internationally-recognized government into exile in Riyadh.

It added that the party insisted the location was "a legitimate military target," the statement written in English said. It also said the Air Operation Center in Yemen directed a "close air support mission" to target the site without getting approval from the coalition's command. The committee said compensation must be offered to the victims' families."


 * Coalition strike on Yemen funeral based on bad info – Saudi-led investigators’ statement - RT, October 15, 2016
 * British Minister: Saudi attack on Yemeni funeral was ‘deliberate’ - Paul Antonopoulos, AMN, October 20, 2016

Casualties?

 * Says 140 Killed, Hundreeds Wounded (Video, Photos) - SouthFront, October 9, 2016
 * ''Meanwhile, non-UN sources report that the casualties from the bombing have already grown to 450 killed. Some sources even say that the numbe is up to 700. There are no doubts that the officially confirmed number of casualties will rise

Motive: revenge?

 * Yemen's top pro-government military commander killed - BreakingNewsLive.net, October 8, 2016
 * ''Yemen's dominant Shiite Houthi rebels said Saturday that they have killed a top commander in pro-government forces in Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, Houthi-controlled Saba news agency reported.
 * ''"Major-General Abdel-Rab al-Shadadi, commander of Third Military Region in Marib, was killed late on Friday in a unique military operation after artillery unit pinpointed his location," Saba quoted a statement by Houthi military source as saying. Al-Shadadi had led forces loyal to internationally recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the rebel Houthis and their allied forces of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh since the civil war broke out in 2015. Hadi's government admitted the loss of al-Shadadi in a statement.
 * Airstrikes 'kill dozens' in Yemeni capital Sanaa - Houthi government official - DW, October 8, 2016
 * ''Also on Saturday, Yemen's army announced the death of its most senior commander to be killed this year. Major-General Abdul-Rab al-Shadadi was killed while leading an offensive against the Houthis east of the capital on Friday.

Yemen hits King Fahd airbase in Taif

 * Bashar Al Bassad ‏@redcommie on Twitter
 * '' @Hamosh84 A lot of secondaries. Really tore something apart. Beautiful!


 * Video
 * https://twitter.com/IraqiSecurity/status/785245737156222976
 * https://twitter.com/IraqiSecurity/status/785247524026191872
 * https://twitter.com/Hamosh84/status/785244589619904513 The video is old, maybe from September 2016
 * https://twitter.com/Hamosh84/status/785245740192989184