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    The Iranians sent warships. Let's see if they are suicidal or not.
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    US Can't Say Who Launched Missiles from Yemen at Navy Ships

    The U.S. has yet to determine who was responsible for the launch of missiles at Navy warships in the Red Sea from areas in Yemen in the control of Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

    "We don't know who was pulling the trigger," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said, but the missiles were launched from "Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. Iran has played a role and been supportive of the Houthi rebels." The Houthis have denied carrying out the attacks.

    At 4 a.m. local time Thursday, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Nitze launched missiles at three radar sites in coastal Yemen in retaliation for the attempted attacks on Navy warships, Cook said.

    The initial assessment was that the sites were destroyed and there were no indications of civilian casualties, he added.

    "These strikes were in response to attempted missile attacks in recent days against USS Mason and other vessels in the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb," Cook said at a Pentagon news conference.

    "We will be prepared to respond again" if ships in the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait are threatened, Cook said. He declined to respond to reports that Iran has deployed two of its warships off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden. "I'll leave it to the Iranians to describe the disposition of their ships."

    The Defense Department on Tuesday had warned of possible retaliation after a pair of missiles was fired at the Navy destroyer USS Mason on Sunday as the ship was in international waters near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.

    On Wednesday, another two missiles were fired at the Mason from an area believed to be in the control of the Houthis. None of the missiles struck the ship, and there were no injuries, U.S. officials said.

    The amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio and the amphibious transport dock USS Ponce were also operating in the area with the Mason at the time.

    The attempted attacks on U.S. ships were the first in the civil war between Shiite Houthi rebels fighting the government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi that broke out in March 2015.

    At least 4,125 civilians have been killed in the fighting, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. A cease-fire and peace talks collapsed in August.

    Saudi Arabia, which backs the fledgling Yemeni government, began conducting airstrikes in Yemen last year.

    A Houthi military official said that charges of missile launches by them at U.S. ships were an attempt at glossing over a Saudi airstrike on a funeral service Sunday that reportedly killed more than 150 people, the Houthi-affiliated Saba news agency reported.

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    Hype Surrounds Iran’s Deployment of Aged Ships ‘Near’ Yemen

    Ships Will Be Several Hundred Miles From US Destroyers

    by Jason Ditz, October 13, 2016

    The US has often been eager to make much of Iranian naval vessels getting “dangerously” close to US warships, but today’s hype surrounding an Iranian deployment into the Gulf of Aden really stretches that beyond credibility, with officials desperately trying to connect this to US ships also being off the coast of Yemen.

    In part of what appears to be totally routine anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, Iran deployed two ships, the frigate Alvand and the replenishment ship Bushehr. The ships were built in the early 1970s, and both have fairly limited, and obviously pretty obsolete, armaments.

    By contrast the US has a pair of Arleigh-Burke class destroyers parked in the Red Sea, which readers will also note is a totally different body of water from the one the Iranian ships are deployed to The exact locations are not certain, but the respective ships are likely several hundred miles apart,

    With large amounts of piracy going on in the Gulf of Aden, mostly along the Somali coast, a large number of nations, including Iran, have participated in anti-pirate patrols aimed at keeping commercial traffic safe. This is one of the few credible uses Iran even has for ships this old, since pirates usually aren’t working with particularly advanced vessels themselves.

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    The US government is hyping up Iran's naval activities? Frankly, I'm shocked that they would do such a thing.
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    I'm fairly unshocked at how they report this........You're responding......Cause that's how we do. You've launched missiles at no less than 3 "radar sites" and there are casualties mind you.....but "indications are that none are civilian."

    I see...

    Cause....that's what Houthis rebels(who are backed by whom, class?)......or al-Qaeda affiliates.....or this President Hadi..they would place radar sites far from civilian structure and civilians themselves. They'd disguise in brilliant fashion....and place them away , with large rectangular dishes sporting antenna.

    Does this Destroyer not have vertical launch capabilities, what missile does an Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer possess that can tiptoe in and inflict casualties and remove the radar site.....and then give indications there are no civilians killed? Satellite imagery what it is and what not...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    The US government is hyping up Iran's naval activities? Frankly, I'm shocked that they would do such a thing.
    Nothing they do should shock us now. I mean we know they spied on us secretly and attacked the wrong nation after9/11

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Nothing they do should shock us now. I mean we know they spied on us secretly and attacked the wrong nation after9/11
    Afghanistan was the proper attack, quit being Bush League.

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    USS Mason fires missiles in Red Sea after apparent attack

    By Barbara Starr and Caroline Kenny, CNN

    Updated 9:14 PM ET, Sat October 15, 2016

    (CNN)The Navy destroyer USS Mason fired countermeasures in the Red Sea on Saturday after it detected what it believed were incoming missiles.

    Officials Saturday night were uncertain about what exactly happened, if there were multiple incoming missiles or if there was a malfunction with the radar detection system on the destroyer.

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    More uncertainty surrounding the origin of these alleged attacks on US naval vessels.
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