The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile struck a terminal at Riyadh’s airport Sunday, a day after a missile attack killed 13 people and injured 309.

The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile struck a terminal at Riyadh’s airport Sunday, a day after a missile attack killed 13 people and injured 309.

An unidentified projectile struck Saudi Arabia’s main international airport Sunday, injuring people a day after a deadly missile attack at the same site raised questions about whether the United States would join another conflict in the region.

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed the death of a Pakistani resident and injuries to 11 others in the new attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It said authorities were assessing damage and checking the safety of airport facilities.

The Saudi-led coalition said the projectile struck Terminal 4, causing a fire that authorities were working to control. It also reported intercepting and destroying a cruise missile near the airport.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    21 hours ago

    widening the meaning of the word too much it loses its explanatory power.

    I am absolutely not widening the definition, I stand by my claim that regimes like the Saudi are literally fanatics by any sensible definition just as much as the Iranian regime is. And their death penalty for apostasy is part of that.
    The fact that you can do other normal things without the death penalty does not change that the things that are fanatic remain fanatic.

    I have no idea what your agenda is, but it certainly isn’t compatible with democracy or humanism if you defend a regime like the Saudi.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      11·
      20 hours ago

      Uh for the record fuck the Saudi regime. That aside you’re either not actually reading anything I say or you think “secular nationalist dictator” is a string of words that can be a defense of someone, and either way this isn’t a conversation worth having, so instead I’ll just say: “Fanatic” is a word that describes people, not things.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        19 hours ago

        WTF? Of course a toaster can’t be fanatic!?!?!?! What’s you point. Also a nationalist dictator can be equally fanatic, I never claimed otherwise!?!?!

        What are you on about? None of that changes the fact that the Saudi regime is both religious and fanatic, any debate on whether they would be as fanatic without relifion is irrelevant, because that’s not the reality we are dealing with.