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U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis
#23735722 - 10/13/16 11:15 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/u-s-enters-yemen-war-directly-for-the-first-time-with-attack-on-houthis/
THE U.S. MILITARY directly attacked Houthi rebels in Yemen for the first time on Wednesday — firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at three rebel-held radar stations on the Red Sea coast. The attack, which was in retaliation for a failed missile attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer on Sunday, risks drawing the U.S. further into the 18-month war.
In March 2015, a coalition of states led by Saudi Arabia began a U.S.-backed bombing campaign against the Houthi forces, which four months earlier had seized Yemen’s capital and deposed the country’s U.S.- and Saudi-backed dictator. Since then, the U.S. has flown refueling missions for Saudi aircraft, supplied targeting intelligence, and resupplied the Saudi effort with tens of billions of dollars of weapons.
While the U.S. has previously conducted direct attacks in Yemen against al Qaeda — which controls vast territory in central and eastern Yemen — it had not directly engaged Houthi forces before.
The escalation began last week when the U.S. dispatched warships to the Bab al-Mandab Strait — which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden — after the Houthis fired on and nearly sank a ship from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is a part of the Saudi-led bombing coalition, which has maintained a strict naval blockade of the country since the war began.
When the Houthis fired on the U.S.S. Mason earlier this week, sailors were able to deploy countermeasures and the ship was not damaged.
The Department of Defense issued a statement describing the U.S. attack as a series of “limited self-defense strikes,” but promised to “respond to any further threat” to U.S. ships “as appropriate.”
“The intent of our strikes were to deter future attacks and to reduce the risk to U.S. and other vessels,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz said Thursday. “We are prepared to respond if necessary to any future missile launches.”
The U.S. Navy tweeted a video of the destroyer U.S.S. Nitze launching cruise missiles, captioning it with the hashtag “#Yemen” — commonly used by activists to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe.
Schultz said the strike was approved by President Obama on the recommendation of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pentagon officials told NPR that they had “no sense of any civilians being killed,” but it is unclear how they know, and what type of review was undertaken.
Houthi forces denied having launched the missiles at a U.S. destroyer, and promised to respond to kind to the display of military force.
The attack came just after the first sign that the Obama administration might be having second thoughts about the massacres committed by the Saudi coalition with U.S. weapons.
Just four days ago, the Saudi coalition bombed the funeral of a rebel-appointed government minister’s father, killing 125 and wounding 525 in one of the worst massacres of the war. Fragments of what appeared to be U.S.-made bombs were photographed at the scene.
The White House responded by promising to initiate a review of U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia, and issued its first public threat to stop supporting the coalition. “U.S. security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check,” Ned Price, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement. Price added that the administration is “prepared to adjust our support so as to better align with U.S. principles, values and interests.”
Thoughts? Start of the end? Next president is going to have to deal with one hell of a shit show in the international political scene.
Edited by tdubz (10/13/16 11:30 PM)
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: tdubz] 2
#23735755 - 10/13/16 11:36 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23735774 - 10/13/16 11:45 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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We've never seen this kind of response from the government of how our tax dollars work. What an amazing time to be alive.
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tdubz



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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Konyap]
#23735897 - 10/14/16 01:45 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Looks to be a possible confrontation with Iran as if we don't have enough problems already with Russia and Syria.
Edited by tdubz (10/14/16 01:52 AM)
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: tdubz]
#23735913 - 10/14/16 01:58 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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at least we can still show our dicks to people in chatrooms
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#23735915 - 10/14/16 02:00 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I worry about Russia. Cold war part II?
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Magicman69] 1
#23735917 - 10/14/16 02:01 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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the cold war never ended bruh
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#23735920 - 10/14/16 02:02 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Winter is coming
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tdubz



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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Magicman69]
#23735927 - 10/14/16 02:12 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Russia hacking the elections?? Shits about to get real...
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: tdubz]
#23735929 - 10/14/16 02:13 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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but what about the erections?
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tdubz



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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#23735930 - 10/14/16 02:15 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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pshhh what's the pound worth anything still?
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: tdubz]
#23735957 - 10/14/16 02:49 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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more than the dollar
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#23736217 - 10/14/16 07:16 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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We're in real trouble if they start hacking the electrons.
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23736391 - 10/14/16 08:50 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Why? Elections have been hacked since the dawn of hacking.
Edited by PatrickKn (10/14/16 08:51 AM)
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: PatrickKn]
#23736470 - 10/14/16 09:20 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes but only recently have we had the technology to hack electrons.
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23736534 - 10/14/16 09:42 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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We've been hacking electrons since WW2.
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: PatrickKn]
#23736576 - 10/14/16 09:53 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I suppose you're right. And I suppose Russians have been doing it since the 50s. God. We're all going to die aren't we?
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: CookieCrumbs] 2
#23736591 - 10/14/16 09:58 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
CookieCrumbs said: I suppose you're right. And I suppose Russians have been doing it since the 50s. God. We're all going to die aren't we?
no, we arent going to die. the government is going to pull another false flag operations and use crisis actors to play our family members pretending to mourn our fake deaths
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23736609 - 10/14/16 10:06 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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When you get your third false flag death you get an honorary coin and are inducted into the Dead Actors Society. I'm working on my 7th atm. After 10 they name a library after one of your corpses.
Edited by PatrickKn (10/14/16 10:10 AM)
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Re: U.S. Enters Yemen War Directly for the First Time With Attack on Houthis [Re: PatrickKn]
#23738340 - 10/14/16 07:48 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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They'd be less racist if we criminalized our gays and women... jus sayin'
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