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An American warship, the USS Gravely, shot down two more ballistic missiles while responding to a distress call along with the USS Labboon, the military says.
The missiles were fired from a part of Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
controlled by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebel group, which has carried out nearly two dozen attacks on merchant vessels in a bid to choke traffic traversing the key Bab al Mandeb strait connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.
According to CentCom, there were no injuries on the Maersk container ship, and the ship remains seaworthy and able to continue its journey.
According to publicly available data, the Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned ship was sailing from Singapore to Port Said Egypt.
The strike comes a day after Denmark joined the international coalition set up to patrol the Red Sea and thwart such attacks.
Maersk, among the world’s largest shippers, recently said it was resuming its more efficient Red Sea routes in apparent reaction to the force being set up, after weeks of sending marine traffic around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to avoid Houthi attacks.
Speaking before the attack was announced, US Navy Vice Admiral Brad Cooper told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that since Operation Prosperity Guardian was announced, 1,200 merchant ships had traveled through the Red Sea region, and none had been hit by drone or missile strikes.
There are five warships from the United States, La Belle France, and the United Kingdom patrolling the waters of the southern Red Sea and the western Gulf of Aden, says Cooper, who heads the 5th Fleet. Since the operation started, the ships have shot down a total of 17 drones and four anti-ship ballistic missiles, he says.
The Houthis have threatened to attack any vessel they believe is either going to or coming from Israel, in retaliation for Israel’s military campaign in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
That has escalated to apparently any vessel, with container ships and oil tankers flagged to countries such as Norway and Liberia being attacked or drawing missile fire.
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