Putin–MbS already ran. Saree’s Wing Loong II claim already ran. 2 from 10 already ran. Witkoff’s three already ran. Bukhaiti’s U.S.-ships-not-targets already ran. This is the unused if.
AFP, Sanaa, via Straits Times, Sept. 23: Houthi military adviser Abed Mohammed al-Thawr, exclusive interview: “If America dares to intervene militarily with its fleets or tries to take control of Bab al-Mandab, it is a red line for them and anyone else … we will fight over it.” If Washington “gambles on supporting Saudi Arabia with airstrikes or air support,” he said, “we will consider any American interests around us to be targets and we will not exclude anything,” and they will “close Bab al-Mandab completely to American ships.” A threat is not a sortie. We will not invent a hull.
Thawr denied Iran directs the group: “one alliance and one body,” but “independent in our decisions.” He said as long as Saudi Arabia “continues killing our country,” they will strike “with an iron fist” and have “sufficient capability” to punish Riyadh “in the fields of oil and the economy.” Capability claimed is not a new pump-station hit on this paper.
United Nations, Sept. 22: displaced could swell from more than 130,000 today to more than 230,000 in the coming months. Monday’s 130,000 already sat in the Kahboub file. The unused number here is the 230,000 projection. A projection is not a new count already counted.
Mocha, Perim, and Hanish-unverified already ran. We will not reprint them as first-day news. Morning’s phone call is not this interview.
What this means for you
If you needed this morning’s two straits named, they were still named. If you needed this afternoon’s unused Houthi sentence, it is Thawr, if, Bab closed to U.S. ships if. If you needed a confirmed strike on a U.S. hull, wait.
Bottom line: If. Targets if. Bab closed to U.S. ships if. Not a wreck. Not this morning’s call.
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