Iranian-Backed Terrorists Fire Multiple Ballistic Missiles At Oil Tanker In Gulf Of Aden | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen fired anti-ship ballistic missiles at cargo ships in the Red Sea this week despite the U.S. and U.K. conducting airstrikes against the group to stop the attacks.

    U.S. Central Command said that the attacks happened throughout the day on Tuesday as the terror group fired six anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) into the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

    "Three of the ASBMs were attempting to hit MV Star Nasia, a Marshall Island-flagged, Greek owned-and-operated bulk carrier transiting the Gulf of Aden," CENTCOM said in a statement. "At approximately 3:20 a.m., MV Star Nasia reported an explosion near the ship causing minor damage but no injuries. At 2 p.m. another missile impacted the water near the ship with no effect. At 4:30 p.m., USS Laboon (DDG 58), operating near MV Star Nasia, intercepted and shot down a third anti-ship ballistic missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis. MV Star Nasia remains seaworthy and is continuing toward its destination."

    The statement said that the remaining ASBMs that were fired were believed to be targeting the Barbados-flagged MV Morning Tide, a U.K.-owned cargo ship operating in the Southern Red Sea.

    The missiles landed near the ship, but did not damage it.

    These latest attacks against merchant ships come after the U.S. and U.K. - with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand - launched strikes against the Houthis late last week that the Department of Defense described as "proportionate and necessary."


    "These precision strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the capabilities that the Houthis use to threaten global trade, and the lives of innocent mariners, and are in response to a series of illegal, dangerous, and destabilizing Houthi actions since previous coalition strikes on January 11 and 22, 2024, including the January 27 attack which struck and set ablaze the Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker M/V Marlin Luanda," the statement said.

    The strikes "specifically targeted sites associated with the Houthis' deeply buried weapons storage facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defense systems, and radars."

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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