Britain is “protecting” the Saudi oil fields

At the same time, the effectiveness of the British role in supporting the Saudi aggression against Yemen is revealed. It appears that London’s operational role has finally been expanded to include the “protection” of the Saudi oil fields, following the attack on the two “Aramco” oil facilities by the “Ansar Allah” movement. In this context, the newspaper “The Independent” revealed that the British government had deployed military forces in Riyadh to “defend the oil fields”, without consulting Parliament with a maneuver that, according to the opposition parties, lacked a “moral compass. “. A step that was justified by the British Ministry of Defense by saying that the Saudi oil fields represent a “very important economic infrastructure”, which required the need to deploy artillery from the 16th Royal Artillery Regiment to help the Kingdom repel attacks with aircraft. unmanned after consulting with your Ministry of Defense and international partners. London’s contribution, according to a ministry spokesperson, included the deployment of an advanced military radar system to detect drones. This was confirmed by the Minister of the Armed Forces, James Hebe, in a written correspondence to the newspaper, saying that “British defense personnel accompanied the deployment of the Giraffe radar system in Riyadh”, noting that the passage is “purely defensive and helps to Saudi Arabia to face real threats. ” The deployment of British forces and the shipment of military equipment began last February, a few months after the London Court of Appeal decided to ban the export of military equipment to Riyadh because it “feared” that it would be used against Yemenis.

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