U.S.-Owned Commercial Vessel Hit With Bomb In Red Sea | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    A U.S.-owned commercial vessel was hit with a bomb from a suicide drone in the Red Sea on Wednesday, marking the second time this week that an American ship has been struck by the Iranian-backed Houthis.

    "At approximately 8:30 pm (Sanaa time) Jan. 17, an assessed one-way attack [Unmanned Aircraft System] was launched from Houthi controlled areas in Yemen and struck M/V Genco Picardy in the Gulf of Aden," U.S. Central Command said in a statement. "M/V Genco Picardy is a Marshall Islands flagged, U.S. owned and operated bulk carrier ship."

    "There were no injuries and some damage reported," CENTCOM added. "M/V Genco Picardy is seaworthy and continuing underway."

    On Monday, Houthi terrorists fired an anti-ship ballistic missile, hitting a U.S.-owned and operated container ship off the coast of Yemen.

    The missile hit the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged ship, U.S. Central Command reported.

    British Maritime Security firm Ambrey stated that three missiles were reportedly launched by the Houthis; two did not reach the ship. Ambrey also noted that the missile hitting the ship reportedly caused a fire in a hold, Reuters reported.

    On Tuesday, CENTCOM said that the U.S. Navy seized a sailing ship last week that was conducting illegal transport of advanced lethal aid from Iran to resupply the terrorist Houthi forces in Yemen.

    "U.S. Navy SEALs operating from USS Lewis B Puller, supported by helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), executed a complex boarding of the dhow near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missiles components," USCENTCOM said. "Seized items include propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) and anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), as well as air defense associated components. Initial analysis indicates these same weapons have been employed by the Houthis to threaten and attack innocent mariners on international merchant ships transiting in the Red Sea."

poll#211

26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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