re: Houthi's launched missile at USS Laboon in the Red Sea tonight. US Military shot it down

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Are these Mooslims simply retarded

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The average Yemeni IQ is 67. Combine that with their martyrdom beliefs and I wouldn’t expect them to act rationally

These people are tough and love fighting.

Patrick Lang wrote this about them almost ten years ago now.

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The YAR Army had a lot of Zeidi tribesmen in it (both officers and men). Salih is a Zeidi and he was a Republican soldier in the civil war of the 1960s and then a sergeant before he began his career of ascension through assassination. It was a regular occurrence in the YAR Army for battalion commanders to defect from the Army with their troops and equipment after some tiff with Salih and return to their tribes where the government was invited to try and “come get us.” As a result the tribes have a lot of equipment; tanks, Sov APCs, Sove and US artillery, AAA, etc. The officers were often products of Sov service schools and US, British and Sove training by military missions resident in Yemen. Interestingly, no on I have ever heard of succeeded in training to teach the Yemenis to do “indirect fire” with artillery or mortars. They like to squint down the tube of a 155 how and pull the lanyard as though they were at Antietam or Borodino. When asked about this, they invariable replied that their way was “better for them.” In addition to these Zeidis (some of them Houthis)their are large formations of the present Yemen Army on the rebel side.

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love fighting.

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Their life and religion is based on fighting. Whether they like it or not, they have to fight something.

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They know that our government won’t do anything at all

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We sank three of their boats and bombed the shite out of them. I expect we'll do more. I assume you don't like our policies in the region but at least make sure your criticisms are factually correct.

The Houthis just struck a vessel off the coast of Yemen with a missile

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US Central Command confirms US owned container ship M/V Gibraltar Eagle was hit by ballistic missile

On Jan. 15 at approximately 4 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and struck the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged, U.S.-owned and operated container ship. The ship has reported no injuries or significant damage and is continuing its journey.

Earlier in the day, at approximately 2 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Forces detected an anti-ship ballistic missile fired toward the Southern Red Sea commercial shipping lanes. The missile failed in flight and impacted on land in Yemen. There were no injuries or damage reported.


Jack Lombardi II on X
A US-owned vessel, the Eagle Gibraltar, registered under the Marshall Islands and operated by Eagle Bulk Shipping based in Stamford, Connecticut, was struck by a missile in the Gulf of Aden earlier today.

While no group has yet claimed responsibility, suspicions point towards Yemen's Houthi rebels.

The missile, reported to have struck from above, ignited a fire on the ship, but fortunately, no injuries have been reported.

The incident occurred approximately 110 miles southeast of Aden, off the coast of Yemen.

This attack follows a recent incident where Yemen's Houthi rebels launched an anti-ship cruise missile at an American destroyer in the Red Sea.

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Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and struck the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged, U.S.-owned and operated container ship. The ship has reported no injuries or significant damage and is continuing its journey.

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How shitty are these missiles where they can hit a ship and barely even damage it?