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2024-05-16 Arabia

Houthis claim missile attack on US destroyer in Red Sea

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The military representative of the Yemeni Houthis, Yahya Saria, said that the rebel movement launched a missile attack on a US destroyer in the Red Sea, on the Al Masirah TV channel.

“The Yemeni navy conducted a combat operation during which it fired several anti-ship missiles at the US destroyer Mason in the Red Sea,” Saria said.

Note that he says nothing about actually hitting the target.

He added that the Houthis also launched a missile attack on the commercial ship Destiny in the Red Sea. It was heading to the port of Eilat in Israel.

As Regnum reported, on May 8, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, said at a military parade that the United States was sending “tempting offers” so that the movement would stop attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea. He called these steps by the American leadership humiliating. Al-Mashat said the Houthis will continue their attacks in support of the Gaza Strip, whose residents are suffering from attacks by the Israeli army.

Saria on May 9 announced missile strikes on three Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

How the Times of Israel reported it:

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...
’s 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...
rebels on Wednesday claimed they targeted a US Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea, but there was no immediate confirmation that any attacks took place.

Houthi military front man Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said the rebels targeted the USS Mason with missiles and launched an attack on a ship he identified as the Destiny. Multiple vessels have that name in shipping registries.

The US Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, has been in the Red Sea and the wider region as part of a US-led coalition trying to prevent Houthi attacks on shipping.

Posted by badanov 2024-05-16 9:48:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [216 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 The problem of attacking Yemen is that the only thing you'll hit is an outhouse.

Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-05-16 08:02|| 2024-05-16 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Houthis claim missile attack on US destroyer in Red Sea

...Well, Houthis claim a lot of things. If we just had the stones to lay down an airstrike when one of the little bastards pops their heads up to scream (and we can do it) it might stop and PDQ at that.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-05-16 11:15|| 2024-05-16 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree w Mike K

However, Biden's stupid rhetoric about civilian casualties re the IDF makes it very difficult for him to order the kind of devastating strike that is needed to convince the Houthis to desist.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-16 15:30|| 2024-05-16 15:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The Iranian spy ship is doing all the targeting.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-16 16:41|| 2024-05-16 16:41|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Seems like there ought to be some sort of Electronic Countermeasures.

Posted by Bobby 2024-05-16 17:22|| 2024-05-16 17:22|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 - Damn shame if an "indigenously designed and constructed" Hooothi anti-ship took it out

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-16 18:48|| 2024-05-16 18:48|| Front Page Top

#7 "And when they were done, not a outhouse was left standing anywhere in the country."

From the viewpoint of violent desert tribesmen, which is to say an Islamic perspective, talking about something is the same as doing it. In The Arab Mind, the author goes into detail but basically that fact they they confronted the Great Satan, no matter how ineffectively, is just as good as striking a fatal blow. Aloha Snackbar!

Posted by SteveS 2024-05-16 19:16|| 2024-05-16 19:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Sal Mercogliano says that the Iranian spy ship left the area a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it was warned off or we agreed to move the carrier out in a negotiation.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-16 21:55|| 2024-05-16 21:55|| Front Page Top

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