INTL Joint statement from U.S., and more than 40 other countries, warning the Houthi against further attacks in the Red Sea Yemen Attacked Thurs. 1/11/24

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We are letting USN personnel be targets. If you occupy .mil space, you must protect those within it. Sheer treason to NOT, especially when you possess such capabilities. Shit, or get off the pot. We have no business being anywhere where we cannot (rather, will not) protect our people and assets.
Becoming apparent someone WANTS a burning ship with US bodies in the water.
 
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night driver said:
Would LOVE to see what an "unscrewed suicide boat" looked like...
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I would assume that is referring to a jet drive (like a jet ski). In nautical jargon your screws are your propellers (eg. "twin screw" = one engine in forward other in reverse). Therefore unscrewed would mean propellerless or jet drive. The unmanned surface vessels the Brits gave to the Ukes were propelled by souped up jet ski engines and drives. YMMV
 
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SHOCK REPORT : ⚠️ Yemen Houthis threaten to CUT UNDERGROUND FIBEROPTIC CABLE in the Red Sea if the US and UK lunch another attack on Yemeni Airports..

DEVELOPING..

The cable is “the lifeblood” of communication pathways connecting Europe, Africa, and the Middle East..

The disruption would have a major impact on global financial systems..

SOURCE: IB TIMES
 
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U.S forces shot down a drone off Yemen and later destroyed an explosives-laden uncrewed surface vessel that threatened ships in the Red Sea - US military

5:58 PM · Feb 1, 2024
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It being 2054 Sanaa time right now (12:54 Eastern) looks like midnight to 2 AM Sanaa time. About 5:30 PM tonight.

Are there any open local video sites in Sanaa???? Hey, they timed the Shock N Awe for primetime, remember???
 
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iirc, Yemen is the next stop for the US Bombing tour-

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USCENTCOM Red Sea Operational Update On Feb. 2, at approximately 10:30 a.m. (Sanaa time), USS Carney (DDG 64) engaged and shot down one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over the Gulf of Aden. There were no injuries or damage reported. Later that same day, at approximately 4:40 p.m.

(Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes against four Houthi UAVs that were prepared to launch. U.S. forces identified the UAVs in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined that they presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the U.S. Navy ships in the region.

U.S. forces subsequently struck and destroyed the UAVs in self-defense. Then, at 9:20 p.m. (Sanaa time), USS Laboon (DDG 58) and F/A-18s from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group engaged and shot down seven UAVs over the Red Sea. There were no injuries or damage reported. These actions will protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S. Navy vessels and merchant vessels.
 
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Israel’s war on Gaza live: US says Yemen strikes send ‘message’ to Houthis
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By Lyndal Rowlands and John Power
Published On 4 Feb 20244 Feb 2024

The United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says new coalition strikes on 36 targets in 13 locations in Yemen send a “clear message” to the Houthis over their Red Sea attacks.

Houthi official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti says the Red Sea attacks will continue until Israel ends its assault on Gaza, amid Israeli air raids on Khan Younis and Rafah.

The death toll from air raids in eastern Rafah has risen to 24 people as Israel says it is planning a ground invasion of the dangerously overcrowded city.

Air attacks and shelling have also been reported in Khan Younis, including in the vicinity of the European Hospital.

At least 27,238 people have been killed and 66,452 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
 
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US-UK strikes hit 48 locations in Yemen: Houthi spokesperson

The Houthi military’s spokesperson, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, has said that 48 US-UK air strikes hit Yemen in recent hours.

The number is higher than the 36 Houthi targets across 13 locations in Yemen the US-led coalition said its air strikes had hit in an earlier joint statement.

Saree said in a post on X that the attacks would not deter the Yemen-based group.

“These attacks will not deter us from our moral, religious and humanitarian stance in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” Saree said.

The attacks “will not pass without response and punishment”, he added.

According to Saree, the strikes hit the following locations in Yemen:

Thirteen strikes on Amanat Al-Asimah and Sana’a Governorate
Nine strikes on Hodeidah Governorate
Eleven strikes on Taiz Governorate
Seven strikes on Al Bayda Governorate
Seven strikes on Hajjah Governorate
One raid on Saada Governorate.
 
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US Army says shot down six Houthi antiship missiles

Separate from its air strikes on Yemen, the United States military says it shot down six Houthi antiship missiles as they were preparing to launch against ships in the Red Sea.

“On Feb. 3, at approximately 7:20 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes in self-defense against six Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles prepared to launch against ships in the Red Sea,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement posted on X before the announcement of air strikes on more than 30 Houthi targets in Yemen.

“US forces identified the cruise missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined they presented an imminent threat to U.S. Navy ships and merchant vessels in the region. This action will protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for US Navy and merchant vessels.”

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MY suspicion is that they have GOTTA have an AWACS or F-22 orbiting out in INTL Airspace listening for these anti-ship missiles to spin up their guidance hard/soft ware.
 
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Iran issued a Warning earlier today to the United States over the possible Targeting of the Iranian-Flagged IRGC Command and Surveillance Ships, M/V Behshad and M/V Saviz which are reportedly now both Operating off the Coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, with claims that they have been provided the Houthi Terrorist Group in Western Yemen with Orders and Intelligence related to the Targeting of Commercial Shipping Vessels.
 
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CENTCOM Self-Defense Strikes

On Feb. 5, at approximately 3:30 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted a strike in self-defense against two Houthi explosive uncrewed surface vehicles (USV).

U.S. forces identified the explosive USVs in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined they presented an imminent threat to U.S. Navy ships and merchant vessels in the region. These actions will protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S. Navy vessels and merchant vessels.
 
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UPDATE: This was not a drone strike or missile attack. It was a projectile, likely a Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG), being Fired at the Ship

The Projective is said to have missed the ship's deck, causing Minor Damage to multiple bridges.

SOURCE: UKMTO
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1754734452964466962
View: https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1754734452964466962?s=20

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U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM

CENTCOM Self-Defense Strikes

On Feb. 5, at approximately 3:30 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted a strike in self-defense against two Houthi explosive uncrewed surface vehicles (USV).

U.S. forces identified the explosive USVs in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined they presented an imminent threat to U.S. Navy ships and merchant vessels in the region. These actions will protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S. Navy vessels and merchant vessels.
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Iran goes public with stark warning over suspected spy ship as U.S. refuses to rule out more strikes​


By Keir Simmons, Mo Abbas, Dan De Luce and Matthew Mulligan​

ERBIL, Iraq — After a weekend of U.S. strikes against its proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, Iran has issued a strongly worded warning not to target a ship that U.S. officials and analysts suspect of providing real-time intelligence for attacks on other vessels in the Red Sea and serving as a forward operating base for its commandos.

In a slickly produced video published on the Iranian army’s Telegram channel Sunday, a narrator says in English that “those engaging in terrorist activities against the MV Behshad or similar vessels, jeopardize international maritime routes, security and assume global responsibility for potential future international risks.”
Describing the Behshad as a “floating armory,” the narrator says it is involved in missions to “counteract piracy in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden,” although Iran is not publicly known to have taken part in any recent anti-piracy campaigns in the region.
The video ends with footage of what appears to be ships in an American carrier group flashing red as though they are being targeted. A man then lowers the U.S. flag.
Houthi fighters at a rally in support of Palestinians on the outskirts of Yemen's capital Sana'a yesterday.Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Images

Asked by NBC News about the ship Monday, Defense Department press secretary Maj Gen. Patrick Ryder said, “I am not aware of the U.S. targeting the Behshad. We are very well aware of the ship.”
The Behshad is registered as a commercial cargo ship with a Tehran-based company that the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned as allegedly being a front for the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
The Iranian ship provides electronic intelligence to the Houthis, enabling them to spot and target vessels in the Red Sea region, according to a U.S. official, a U.S. congressional aide with knowledge of the matter and a Middle Eastern official.
Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, the commander of the Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group currently assigned the task of safeguarding commercial shipping in the Red Sea, told NBC News that Houthi forces are receiving help from Iran to strike at cargo vessels, although he did not directly mention the Behshad.

“They are using intelligence from Iran to give them some targeting information,” he said.
Several military analysts have drawn the same conclusion, including Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington-based pro-Israel think tank, whose research focuses on Iranian proxies.
“The ships pretend to be anti-piracy garrison ships that Iranian and Syrian shipping can visit, but actually they are transshipment points for Iranian weapons," he said, adding that military trainers for the Tehran-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon also use them.
“The Behshad and its sister vessel Safiz are also loaded with Iranian electronic intelligence equipment used to locate target vessels for the Houthis to strike,” Knights said.

NBC News has been monitoring the vessel using shipping tracking data and found that it has lingered in exactly the same spot in the south of the Red Sea between Yemen and Eritrea, from at least January 2023.
An organized tour by Yemen's Houthi rebels in November shows the Galaxy Leader cargo ship which was seized by the group's fighters. It remains in capitivity.AFP via Getty Images
After raising anchor Jan. 4 this year, it sailed south toward the Gulf of Aden. And since Jan. 11, it has moved around the Bab al-Mandeb strait — or “the Gate of Grief” — a 16-mile stretch of water that is the entrance to the Red Sea and a choke point where it would be easy to monitor traffic passing into and out of the waterway.
Analysis by NBC News and several other experts has shown that the Behshad was several miles away as Houthi rebels carried out a number of attacks on commercial vessels. The rebel group has said it will continue the strikes until Israel stops its war against Hamas in Gaza.

These attacks have created a huge wave of ship diversions since December and delays in the global supply chain. Shipping giants such as Maersk and MSC have instead chosen to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, adding one to two weeks to their journeys and substantially increasing their cost.
“It’s a sort of open secret within government circles that this ship is causing us quite significant problems,” said Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank. “Wherever the Behshad goes happens to be more or less where the Houthis happen to be targeting their anti-ship ballistic missiles, suicide drones and suicide boats,” he added.

Without mentioning the Behshad, National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson also accused Iran in December of being “deeply involved in planning the operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.” Iranian support included “advanced weapons systems, intelligence support, and financial aid and training,” she said.
Just before the U.S. airstrikes began Friday, the Behshad traveled south into the Gulf of Aden and docked off the coast from a Chinese military base in the east African nation of Djibouti.
Releasing a video about the ship was a first for the Iranians, according to Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, a Belgian think tank focused on preventing wars.
“I don’t recall seeing anything like this before,” he said, adding that he thought “Iran has seen the writing on the wall, that this could be a potential target for future U.S. military action.”
While such warnings would normally be delivered via back channels, Vaez said Tehran had “realized that it’s not working and so they’ve gone public with it.”
The video came after national security adviser Jake Sullivan refused to rule out strikes inside Iran after the retaliatory attacks on the country’s proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen over the killing of three American service members in Jordan last month.

Sailors aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during replenishment with the USS Mason during Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea on Jan. 8, 2024.U.S. Navy via DVIDS
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sullivan told moderator Kristen Welker that he was “not going to get into what we’ve ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action. “What I will say is that the president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people. The president also is not looking for a wider war in the Middle East,” he said.

The U.S. military has never launched a direct attack on Iranian soil, but in April 1988, then-President Ronald Reagan’s administration attacked Iranian ships and offshore oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for Tehran’s mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a Navy frigate.

Reagan’s predecessor, Jimmy Carter, has told NBC News that he was pressed to attack Iran after 52 American diplomats and citizens were taken hostage in 1979 in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held for 444 days.
Although he sanctioned Operation Eagle Claw, a covert mission to secure their release, Carter refused to launch a full military strike because he feared it would cost too many lives — a decision political analysts have cited as a major factor in his defeat to Reagan in 1980.
Like Carter, Biden is also in an election year, and after the Jan. 28 attack on the Tower 22 base in Jordan that killed Spc. Kennedy Sanders, Spc. Breonna Moffet and Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, he faced pressure from his Republican rivals to respond.

Six days later he ordered the attacks on Iraq and Syria, which the Pentagon said hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities connected to the militias or the Quds Force, the expeditionary unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that handles Tehran’s relationship with regional militias. On Sunday, further strikes were carried out on targets in Yemen.
Although the Biden administration has vowed to damage the Houthis’ ability to carry out drone and missile attacks against commercial cargo vessels and U.S. ships in the Red Sea, it has so far chosen not to target the Behshad, possibly out of concern it could trigger a direct conflict with Iran.

Attacking any Iranian vessel would nonetheless be “extremely dangerous in terms of escalation,” according to Basil Germond, a seapower and maritime expert at Britain’s Lancaster University.
A ship is an extension of a state’s sovereign territory, so an attack on an Iranian ship would technically be a direct attack on Iran, he said.
Keir Simmons and Mo Abbas reported from Erbil. Dan De Luce reported from Washington and Matthew Mulligan from London.
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Iran goes public with stark warning over suspected spy ship as U.S. refuses to rule out more strikes

A ship is an extension of a state’s sovereign territory, so an attack on an Iranian ship would technically be a direct attack on Iran, one expert said.
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BREAKING:

⚡ Britain withdraws its destroyer after clashes with Yemen

Britain is withdrawing one of its destroyers HMS DIAMOND from the Red Sea because it was subjected to 3 different attacks from Yemen.

The destroyer had previously been fired at several times by missiles and drones from Yemen, who also claimed to have damaged the destroyer.

Britain claims it is withdrawing it for "technical reasons".

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Sounds like we need to contract with Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon to sail into the area and take care of business. In deniable fashion that is.

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jward said:
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sullivan told moderator Kristen Welker that he was “not going to get into what we’ve ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action. “What I will say is that the president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people. The president also is not looking for a wider war in the Middle East,” he said.
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Although the Biden administration has vowed to damage the Houthis’ ability to carry out drone and missile attacks against commercial cargo vessels and U.S. ships in the Red Sea, it has so far chosen not to target the Behshad, possibly out of concern it could trigger a direct conflict with Iran.
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Attacking any Iranian vessel would nonetheless be “extremely dangerous in terms of escalation,” according to Basil Germond, a seapower and maritime expert at Britain’s Lancaster University.
A ship is an extension of a state’s sovereign territory, so an attack on an Iranian ship would technically be a direct attack on Iran, he said.
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It's a wonder Biden doesn't have extreme hemorrhoids from straddling that fence.
 
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People are starting to talk about what was once the quiet part,
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In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discussed reports that the Houthi may be planning to attack submarine cables carrying the world's internet and why it may not be possible.

Runtime 9:11

Can the Houthi Sever Global Underwater Cables off their Coast?

View: https://youtu.be/2Mz3p8ixZTg
 
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