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2024-02-03 Arabia
Shipping giant CMA CGM halts transit through Red Sea amid repeated Houthi attacks
[IsraelTimes] Shipping group CMA CGM suspends until further notice all crossings by its vessels of the Bab al-Mandab Strait in and out of the Red Sea due to security risks, a source familiar with the matter says.

The decision is taken after the latest attacks on vessels by the 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They 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...
militia in 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...
, including the targeting this week of a convoy that included CMA CGM-operated ships, the source says.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-03 2024-02-03 02:18|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top
 File under: Houthis 

#1 USG are useless - hire some merks.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-03 05:33||   2024-02-03 05:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Who, should hire the mercs?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-03 05:52||   2024-02-03 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Shippers - we're talking billions here.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-03 06:14||   2024-02-03 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Mercs can't stop missiles
Posted by Frank G 2024-02-03 07:27||   2024-02-03 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Indian Navy Saves Another Ship in Mideast Waters as Biden’s ‘Prosperity Guardian’ Languishes
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-03 07:39||   2024-02-03 07:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps he would put the mercs on the vessels to catch the missiles. Or run a ground game against the indeterminant mobile launchers.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-03 07:41||   2024-02-03 07:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Mercs can't stop missiles

Missiles don't fire themself.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-03 08:17||   2024-02-03 08:17|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Not yet anyway.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-03 08:25||   2024-02-03 08:25|| Front Page Top

#9 egypt will lose money if the red sea is closed. encourage them to fight yemen. our enemy is iran. occupy chah badar.
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-03 10:48||   2024-02-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

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