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2024-08-31 Arabia
Houthis said to okay salvage of burning tanker after setting off bombs on ship
[IsraelTimes] Footage released by Iran-backed group shows detonation of at least 6 explosive devices on deck, sparking blaze that now threatens to decimate Red Sea ecosystem; EU says no leak yet

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 have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged oil tanker that it set ablaze in the Red Sea, Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
said late Wednesday, amid concerns that it could begin leaking oil, causing a massive environmental catastrophe.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the Houthis, who are believed to have blocked an earlier attempt to salvage the vessel, did not offer specific details. On Thursday the group released footage of its fighters setting off bombs aboard the tanker after it was abandoned, and a European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
mission said the ship was not yet leaking oil, as diplomats scrambled to find a solution for the looming environmental disaster.

The Sounion carried some 1 million barrels of oil when the Houthis initially attacked it on August 21 with small arms fire, projectiles and a drone boat.

A French destroyer operating as part of Operation Aspides rescued the Sounion’s crew of 25 Filipinos and Russians, as well as four private security personnel, and took them to nearby Djibouti.

Days later, monitors reported that several fires had broken out on the ship, apparently the result of Houthi bombs planted on it.

Iran’s UN mission said Wednesday that following the fire on the Sounion "and the subsequent environmental hazards," several countries it didn’t identify reached out to the Houthis "requesting a temporary truce for the entry of tugboats and rescue ships into the incident area."

"Ansar Allah has consented to this," the Iranian mission said, using another name for the Houthis.

It offered no further details, nor did the Houthis, who have repeatedly attacked ships in the Red Sea since the outbreak of war 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Western countries and the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
have warned any oil spill from the Sounion could devastate the coral reefs and wildlife that call the Red Sea home.

The EU’s Red Sea naval mission Aspides said on Thursday that no oil spill has been detected on the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea, despite "multiple fires" detected on the main deck of the vessel.

It said the Sounion was still anchored and not drifting.

Houthi video shows rebels planted, detonated bombs on seized oil tanker

[IsraelTimes] Glamorized footage is accompanied by chants of ‘death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews’; EU says salvaging ops have begun, no oil spill detected amid environmental fears

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top
 File under: Houthis 

#1 Did any Western power retaliate for this blatant act of strategic piracy, either counter-force or counter-value?

Will any Western power retaliate?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-08-31 08:42||   2024-08-31 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 yemen is a distraction. iran is the enemy. occupy chahbahar. i like obriens shirt message "front towards enemy".
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-08-31 11:23||   2024-08-31 11:23|| Front Page Top

#3 How would you like to be on a tug sent to haul this possibly explosive mess off? And hoping that the Houthis don't randomly decide to start shooting?
There wouldn't be enough money in the world for me.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-08-31 11:48||   2024-08-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 gotta the anchor up first
Posted by Frank G 2024-08-31 13:20||   2024-08-31 13:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Egypt should grow a spine and deal with the Houthis. Until then who cares ?
Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2024-08-31 15:20||   2024-08-31 15:20|| Front Page Top

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