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Navy officials: US warship heads to Yemeni waters to intercept Iranian weapons shipments.
A.P. ^ | April 20 | No Attribution

Posted on 04/20/2015 11:18:33 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Navy officials: US warship heads to Yemeni waters to intercept Iranian weapons shipments.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; intercept; iran; iranhouthis; iranian; israel; navy; shipments; syria; usnavy; usstheodoreroosevelt; waronterror; warship; waters; weapon; weapons; yemen; yemeni; yemenwar
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To: PistolPaknMama

it’s only “fair...”

a “free range”...red line


61 posted on 04/20/2015 11:52:39 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: mware; All
"Some of our folks are going to be killed one of these times. "

NOBODY fires on the US Navy at sea.

Nobody.

It's just not possible to get 100-500 men to commit suicide at the same time.

63 posted on 04/20/2015 11:53:05 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Bobalu

this sure could do just that!


64 posted on 04/20/2015 11:53:46 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey; All
Update via The Hill:

The Pentagon is sending a U.S. aircraft carrier to waters around Yemen, following Iran's deployment of seven to nine ships, some carrying weapons.

The U.S. is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt and at least one destroyer to the Gulf of Aden, said Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren.

The Pentagon also said reports that the carrier will intercept Iranian ships carrying weapons is not true.

"Certainly it's going there because of Yemeni instability, but it's not going there to intercept any ships," said Warren.

SNIP

65 posted on 04/20/2015 11:54:04 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: musicman
OH KNOW

HOW COULD THIS BE!!!//?


66 posted on 04/20/2015 11:58:55 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Who knows what anti-ship weapons the Iranians have.

This should not be taken lightly.


67 posted on 04/20/2015 11:59:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I bet they are.


68 posted on 04/20/2015 11:59:39 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: kristinn

OK, then, just going there to see what’s going on, direct traffic maybe?


69 posted on 04/20/2015 12:01:27 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: DoughtyOne

WITH THE BUNCH IN WASHINGTON...ANYTHING ......could happen


70 posted on 04/20/2015 12:01:54 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: camle

to quote another freeper’s take on the matter:

“USS inflatable duck”


71 posted on 04/20/2015 12:02:52 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Genoa

I wonder what an aircraft carrier might be carrying.


72 posted on 04/20/2015 12:02:55 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: MeshugeMikey; All
CBS News weighs in

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt left the Persian Gulf on Sunday and is headed toward Yemen, where there are already three U.S. amphibious ships and two destroyers, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

The Roosevelt was sent in response to a convoy of seven to nine Iranian ships which appear bound for Yemen and which could be carrying arms.

SNIP

There are about nine U.S. ships in the region, including cruisers and destroyers carrying teams that can board and search other vessels.

SNIP

73 posted on 04/20/2015 12:03:19 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: wally_bert; caww; 2ndDivisionVet; SunkenCiv; BeauBo; All

Reminds me of Gulf War 1 which I was watching closely since my son was there with the 82nd. Just before the land war started, the military was giving a press conference and some press idiot asked. “Can you tell us which Kuwaiti beach you are going to land on?” He was not given an answer to that. Actually we did an end run with the Abrams and Sheridan tanks, and the British Centurions. I have some photos of hundreds of Iraqui soldiers lying in the sand with their hands over their heads in surrender. I think in some cases, our troops just drove on by to where there was real action.


74 posted on 04/20/2015 12:03:27 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: MeshugeMikey

Could this be . . . . wag the duck?


75 posted on 04/20/2015 12:04:19 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Genoa

Confusing that the on-the-record statement is being contradicted with off-the-record reports.


76 posted on 04/20/2015 12:05:42 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: freedomson

“CinC says to shadow them but take no action to stop them.”

“Aye Aye Sir”


77 posted on 04/20/2015 12:05:46 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: kristinn

If they’re playing it cagey it’s not working.


78 posted on 04/20/2015 12:09:36 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Genoa

THERES AN ASPIRIN FACTORY SOMEWHERE ...WAITING for our arrival!!


79 posted on 04/20/2015 12:10:09 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Agreed...

We know the Iranians have been testing against a large mockup.

Makes you wonder what they were testing.

Could China have armed them with something interesting?

Who really knows?

All I know is that I don’t want to hear from some government asshole, “We didn’t know...”

If I’m thinking it, our top level people should be.


80 posted on 04/20/2015 12:10:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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