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Thanks, Regugs/BigOil, for destabilizing the Middle East.
WASHINGTON — The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is moving toward the waters off the coast of Yemen to prepare to intercept any potential Iranian shipments of weapons to the rebels fighting the U.S.-backed government of Yemen, a Pentagon official said Monday.
Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the carrier and ships supporting her had been in the Persian Gulf. They moved to the waters near Yemen because of increased instability there, he said.
The Roosevelt is also tracking a convoy of Iranian ships headed to the Gulf of Aden, said a Defense official speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the Iranian vessels. The Iranians have been supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The Pentagon has been tracking the progress of the Iranian ships since last week, the official said.
The Navy is prepared to intercept the ships, according to a second Defense Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Moving the Roosevelt is viewed by the Pentagon as significant but not necessarily a prelude to conflict.
The Houthis are Shiite Muslims, while the Yemeni government has been dominated by Sunni Muslims.
Iran, which is also primarily Shiite, has been backing the Houthis, while Sunni nations, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are supporting the government.
The guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy is accompanying the Roosevelt, the Navy said.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/m...bfdfc00cff4351
Thanks, Regugs/BigOil, for destabilizing the Middle East.
So bitter. You just hate freedom.
yep, and Obama is Muslim terrorist, and rightwingnuts are intelligent, well-informed, critical thinkers.
lol @ destabilizing a chaotic hole.
TByou and your people made the hole deeper, wider, stinkier, much more toxic THANKS!
lol cognative dissonance.
lol facile moonbat
The Greatest Boutons Stalker TB
I wonder if the US will blockade Saudi weapons going into Yemen too....
Why?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/wo...ab-states.html
Is foreign policy have to be so simple for you that an enemy should get allowed the same amount of weapons as our allies? Why? To be fair? Is that what we are a class of fourth graders?
I'd love to see the Iranians try to start with the carrier group. That would be a monumental ass kicking.
I'm guessing you wouldn't have wanted us to give weapons to Taiwan? because we don't give weapons to Burma. No weapons to S. Korea because we don't allow co.'s to sell to N. Korea, huh?
lol facile coward. Still nothing to say.The Greatest Boutons Stalker TB
Pretty much have to.....
Can't fight the ISIS group killing entire ethnic groups of christians because we didn't help Muslims killed in the Crusades!
..because those weapons have at times fallen into the hands of a particular group that likes to cut Christian heads off?
.....only America is allowed to ship arms to allies! Maybe it is the Iranian ships simply trying to prevent America from shipping more arms to ISIS?
http://america.aljazeera.com/article...-bad-idea.htmlMilitary sources said that a number of regional special forces officers and officers at U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) argued strenuously against supporting the Saudi-led intervention because the target of the intervention, the Shia Houthi movement — which has taken over much of Yemen and which Riyadh accuses of being a proxy for Tehran — has been an effective counter to Al-Qaeda.
Michael Horton, a Yemen expert close to a number of officers at SOCOM and a consultant to the U.S. and U.K. governments, picked up on this debate. Within days of the Saudi intervention’s start, he said in an email that he was “confounded” by the intervention, noting that many in SOCOM “favor the Houthis, as they have been successful in rolling back AQ and now IS from a number of Yemeni governorates” — something that hundreds of U.S. drone strikes and large numbers of advisers to Yemen’s military had failed to accomplish.
Later, in a telephone interview, Horton expanded on that. “These constant reports that the Houthis are working for the Iranians are nonsense, but the view is right out of the neocon playbook,” he said. “The Israelis have been touting this line that we lost Yemen to Iran. That’s absurd. The Houthis don’t need Iranian weapons. They have plenty of their own. And they don’t require military training. They’ve been fighting Al-Qaeda since at least 2012, and they’ve been winning. Why are we fighting a movement that’s fighting Al-Qaeda?”
Itching for war? Unsurprising...
taking the Houthis as Iranian proxies is simplistic as ...
Read more: http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/world/yemen_196677SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led airstrikes hit weapons caches held by Iran-backed Shiite rebels, touching off massive explosions Monday in Yemen’s capital that killed at least 19 people and buried scores of others under the rubble of flattened homes.
The Navy, meanwhile, has dispatched the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt toward the waters off Yemen to join other American ships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the rebels, U.S. officials said.
After the coalition airstrikes, mushroom clouds rose over the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, where the arms depots are located. The Atan area has been targeted several times since March 26, the start of the air campaign against the rebels known as Houthis.
“It was like the doors of opened all of a sudden,” said Mohammed Sarhan, whose home is less than 1 mile from the site. “I felt the house lift up and fall.”
Not really...just don't think it would hurt negotiations to remind the Iranians that the US is still a badass in conventional warfare. We aren't geared for this IED guerrilla in Afghanistan but if you with a carrier group prepare to get your ass kicked.
Are you saying Iran is not funding, arming and training them?
Do you disagree with his assessment of Iran trying to attack an US Carrier?
Iran won the Repug/BigOil War-for-Iraqi-Oil
Thanks, Repugs, for the HUGE PILE OF YOU MADE OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
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