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#YEMEN: BOMBING INFRASTRUCTURE. . BRIDGET TOOMEY AND BILL ROGGIO, FDD

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#YEMEN: BOMBING INFRASTRUCTURE. . BRIDGET TOOMEY AND BILL ROGGIO, FDD
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:12.0

Joined by my colleague and friend Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

0:17.5

and we're very pleased to welcome Bridget Toomey for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

0:22.5

watching Yemen, the headlines from Israel, and this continues to change over these last hours.

0:30.1

IDF completely disables, that's in quotes, Houthi-controlled Sana' airport and strikes on Yemen.

0:37.0

Fighter jets also target power stations, cement factory,

0:41.4

two days after the missile fired by Iran-backed group hit Bangorian Airport.

0:47.0

What we're looking at here is a burning city, and we can presume the lights are out.

0:52.3

The power stations are down.

0:54.7

Bridget, a very good evening to you. Thank you for this. Since last we talked,

0:58.7

there have been a series of air strikes by different nations, perhaps, but certainly by the Israelis.

1:06.1

On Yemen, we'll begin with, in chronological order, the strike on the port, which I believe

1:13.2

happened some 12 hours ago, following our initial conversation about what is to be done.

1:19.2

And now we have the strike at the Sana'a airport.

1:22.0

There's no indication that this is the end of the air campaign.

1:26.0

What did they hit 12 hours ago, the port, and how did they hit it?

1:30.7

What was different? This is the IAF. Good day to you, Bridget.

1:36.0

Good evening, John. So yesterday, the Israeli Air Force hit Haudeda Port, which is a central port in the, you know, the Houthi-controlled part of Yemen on the

1:49.1

Red Sea, through which major economic lifeline for the Houthi-controlled regime. And that's

1:58.4

what the Israelis were going after. They were going

2:01.7

after this big economic asset. They're also highlighting that a lot of illicit weapons

2:07.6

are smuggled into the Houthis through Houdata. Vodata's been hit before by U.S. forces.

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