US military forces shot down a drone early Saturday over the Red Sea in international waters near several commercial vessels, the Pentagon said.
The incident came days after a 12-nation group led by the US warned 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 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...
rebels 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...
against continuing their attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The US Central Command said in a social media post Saturday that "an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Iranian-backed Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen was shot down in self-defense" by the USS Laboon, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
It said no one was hurt.
The incident occurred in the southern Red Sea "in the vicinity of multiple commercial vessels," it said.
The Laboon, part of a carrier strike group deployed to the region shortly after the Israel-Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...war broke out, previously downed drones believed fired by the Houthi rebels.
The rebels have launched more than 100 drone and missile strikes toward targets in the Red Sea and Israel since the war erupted, according to Pentagon figures.
The Houthi attacks are endangering a transit route that carries up to 12 percent of global trade, prompting the United States to set up a multinational naval task force to protect Red Sea shipping.