Saudi action in Yemen

[ad hoc]

My Doha to Melbourne leg has been delayed "indefintely". Given the current tension, I wonder if this means that the incoming flight has been shot down by the Saudis

And this not an idle concern. I genuinely worry that this might be the case

[ursus arctos]

No such reports.

If you are on Qatar, the incoming flight from LHR is supposed to have landed in Doha.

[ad hoc]

I am on Qatar

[ursus arctos]

Weird

All of the flight tracking sites that we use are reporting that it is still expected to leave on schedule.

[ad hoc]

A bloke just told me it is now scheduled to leave at 10.30, which is about 50 minutes late. But all the boards still show "information soon".

[ad hoc]

Sorry this has become mundane and belongs there

[ursus arctos]

It is both interesting and troubling to see the Saudis trying to ratchet tensions down for once

[ad hoc]

Yes indeed

[San Bernardhinault]

I keep thinking how sad John Bolton must be that the best chance of war happened after he had left the building.

But then a separate part of me wonders whether John Bolton deliberately left the building a few days ago because he knew this was coming and knew that his presence would make people even more dubious about the provenance of these attacks...

[Tactical Genius]

I'm flying through Doha next Thursday from the UK.

[Lang Spoon]

Yet again I'm left wishing all kinds of hell to rain down on the Saudis/UAE but hating the Iranian regime almost as much. Will Trump's desire for a low oil price recession stopping easy life save us for a bit?

[ursus arctos]

Couldn't make this up

[Nefertiti2]

A fire at Jeddah train station

https://twitter.com/AAlsalman91/status/1178347891154411520?s=20