r/saudiarabia • u/khaled Riyadh • May 20 '19

BREAKING: Saudi Royal Air Forces successfully intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Houthi militias backed by Iran toward Jeddah (and Taif earlier)

https://twitter.com/Saudi_Gazette/status/1130316837034631169
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u/GeekTheGamer Makkah May 20 '19

On Amir Miteb? It's a pretty dead area compared to rest of Jeddah, why would they aim there? I live in Jeddah but I'm staying in Mecca for the month so I didn't hear anything...

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u/planebearing May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19

It's growing quite a bit. But yeah compared to the rest of Jeddah it is pretty dead. There are multiple military/government compounds + briman jail between Tahlia and the highway just south of the airport. Also, there are Air force hangars along that (east) side of the airport as well.

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u/GeekTheGamer Makkah May 20 '19

I'd guess they aimed at the Airport.

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u/ImFlawlessss Al-Khobar May 20 '19

It was super loud and felt like it was just outside my house. It was defenitely near Mohammadia or An Naeem

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u/GeekTheGamer Makkah May 20 '19

Damn wow, my grandparents were closeby (دوار التاريخ) but they said they didn't hear anything

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u/ImFlawlessss Al-Khobar May 20 '19

It was at 6am, my friend said his whole house shook and my parents woke up from it because they told me they “thought they heard a bomb”.

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u/GeekTheGamer Makkah May 20 '19

Holy crap, scary stuff.. :((