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expecting this.
I mean, you had downtown Dubai, some of the most prestigious hotels that were struck.
You have Abu Dhabi.
Again, you have the Burj Khalifa.
You have some of these iconic structures, which have all been struck.
Often, there's some intelligence now coming out
that one of the reasons that the Iranians are doing this is that many U.S.
personnel may have evacuated actually to those airports.
And of course, that's where the rich, the famous and some of the Westerners are staying in order to try and inflict damage both on the prestige of the country, but also to show their capabilities with those suicide drones, which they're very well equipped and have honed in the war in Ukraine.
Turning a little bit now to Abu Dhabi, again, these are this is insane video, like just again, as somebody who has lived in the Gulf, who has seen this, you are looking here at Abu Dhabi with the skyline and smoke just billowing out in the middle of the day amid some of the construction cranes.
This is some of the video from some of the people.
who are actually in the country.
But I mean, it's absolutely just shocking to see videos like this.
And it has brought airspace to a standstill in the Middle East.
And there's a lot of passengers who are actually stranded inside the country.
I just saw today.
Abu Dhabi is offering tourists that they're going to pay for their hotels while they're stuck inside of the country.
So this is a full blown regional conflict.
We have strikes in Jordan and Bahrain and Kuwait, any place, you know, which is a U.S.
ally.