UAE denies nuclear plant targeted by Houthi missile

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"A cruise missile would not go all the way to Abu Dhabi, so we would be talking about ballistic missiles," said Andreas Krieg, an assistant professor at the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. "I think this is a media stunt, a narrative stunt trying to wind everybody up, and showing that they have the intent to very much disrupt," he told Al Jazeera. "But I don't think they have the intent, and they also don't have the capability because they would need a ballistic missile to do that, and that would be a game changer," he added. "Had they fired a ballistic missile towards Abu Dhabi, that would have completely changed the environment in Yemen, bringing other people to the table, including the Americans and the West, because that would had been seen as completely unacceptable.

Period	4 Dec 2017
Held at	Al Jazeera, Qatar