Rocks Cause Explosion, Destroy Weapons
Otay, some rocks fell on the storage depot causing an explosion which destroyed the weapons the regime had so proudly displayed to reporters in touting its weapons buy back program. So now we dont have to worry about all those RPG’s, anti-tank missles, bombs and other large and medium weapons being exported, smuggled or re-sold on the black market.
The Gulf States had funded the weapons buy back program.
So the “influential persons” make money when they buy weapons for the military or elsewhere, when they sell them to dealers or the public, when they buy them back from the dealers or the public, and when they resell them again after they are reported destroyed. The same persons can handle a transaction on the same weapon four times. Now thats what I call effective marketing.
SANAA, May 31 (Reuters) - Explosions at a military depot in Yemen on Thursday were caused by a landslide, a Web site run by the defence ministry said. No casualties were reported.
“The explosions at a camp east of the capital Sanaa resulted from rocks falling on old ammunition in a storage facility at the camp located on a slope,” the site, www.26sep.net, quoted a defence official as saying. “It was caused by rain.”
“So far there are no casualties,” said the official.
Fire trucks and police cars rushed to the area. Hundreds of people watched from rooftops as smoke billowed from the depot.
Earlier this week, officials took reporters to the depot to display bombs, artillery, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons bought or seized from civilians as part of a crackdown in the Arab country where arms are openly carried.
Yemen’s cabinet launched a campaign last month to shut down shops selling guns without a licence. It said millions of dollars would be spent buying up weapons from tribesmen.
Which warehouse? Bombs or guns? Its really not funny. I would guess bombs. There was another explosion at a depot in Aden last year. That one was caused by the sun.
The ministry informed the journalists about three warehouses of weapons in the suburbs of the Sana’a containing tens of thousands of weapons of various kinds. The first weapons warehouse contained tank missiles and machine guns, while the second warehouse had different kinds of artillery shells, explosives and mines. The officials at the warehouses refused to reveal any details to reporters on the prices of these weapons that have been collected, just saying that their task is confined to the storage of such weapons.
The Minister of Interior Rashad al-Alimi said that the cost of these weapons exceeds tens of billions, and that these weapons were collected in an effort to implement the decision to collect the country’s weapons that was approved by the government last April.
“The explosions occurred at an old ammunition dump at the foot of Noqom mountain, a few kilometres (miles)” southeast of the capital, the official said, adding that there were no casualties.
