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  • NATO Boosts Baltic Sea Presence After Suspected Undersea Cable Attack

    12/27/2024 5:53:09 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 3 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/27/2024 | Simon Kent
    NATO moved Friday to enhance its naval presence in the Baltic Sea as Estonia’s navy began patrolling an undersea cable supplying energy from Finland. The move follows the excision of a different cable from the power grid on Christmas Day in what Finnish authorities allege is a case of deliberate, targeted sabotage by Russia, as Breitbart News reported. A ship named as Eagle S is suspected of damaging the Estlink 2 cable and Finnish coast guard crew have boarded the oil tanker and steered it into Finnish waters. The E.U. said the Eagle S was part of “Russia’s shadow fleet”...
  • A Chinese vessel has been hijacked off the Somali coast, officials say

    12/06/2024 6:49:49 AM PST · by posterchild · 28 replies
    Assoc. Press via yahoo finance ^ | Fri Dec 6, 2024 | Omar Faruk
    MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew members aboard was hijacked last week off the northeastern coast of Somalia, local authorities said Friday. An official in Xaafuun district in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, where the vessel is being held, told journalists that the hijackers include the ship’s security guards, who later joined forces with armed men from the coastal region. The European Union’s anti-piracy naval force, Eunavfor Atalanta, brought global attention to the incident after issuing a statement on Thursday that confirmed the local maritime authorities had notified it and investigations revealed that armed men...
  • Oil Tanker Attacked by Houthis Is at Risk of Leaking in Red Sea

    08/29/2024 6:29:52 AM PDT · by libstripper · 18 replies
    WSJ via MSN ^ | Aug. 28, 2024 | Costas Paris
    n oil tanker loaded with roughly a million barrels of crude was on fire and in danger of leaking after it was attacked by Houthi rebels while crossing through the Red Sea. The 900-foot Sounion was hit over the weekend, part of a campaign by the Yemen-based group to target vessels passing through the Suez Canal. The crew was evacuated from the ship, which is now anchored in a busy maritime channel. The Suezmax tanker—the largest size that can transit the canal when laden—had taken on cargo in Iraq, and its final destination was Europe, brokers said. It is one...
  • Houthis Sink Their Second Ship in Red Sea: a Greek-Owned Coal Carrier

    06/19/2024 12:58:57 PM PDT · by qaz123 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 19June | Hayward
    United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday that the Greek-owned coal carrier MV Tutor, struck by Houthi missiles and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) on July 12, has sunk in the Red Sea. The Tutor became the second ship sunk by the Iran-backed Yemeni terrorists since they began their campaign of wanton attacks on commercial shipping in November. It also appears to have been the first ship to be severely damaged by a Houthi USV attack. The weapon was evidently a remote-controlled small boat packed with explosives.
  • Iran Seizes Ship Linked To Israeli Billionaire In Latest Escalation Of Tensions

    04/13/2024 12:52:09 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 20 replies
    Iranian authorities seized an alleged Israeli-linked cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two countries, amid concerns of an Iranian attack in response to an airstrike on an Iranian embassy earlier this month.
  • Demand For Russian Rail Cargo Surges After Houthi Read Sea Attacks - Reports

    03/11/2024 3:38:49 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 7 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 3/11/24
    MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Demand for transporting goods from Asia to Europe by rail via Russia has increased by an average of 30% since the start of the Red Sea crisis, the Financial Times newspaper reported, citing logistics companies and rail operators. German shipping company DHL said that requests to transport goods on Russian railways have increased by 40% since container ships began traveling along alternative routes following the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the report said on Sunday. At the same time, Netherlands-based Rail Bridge Cargo said that rail freight traffic via Russia was 31% higher this year compared...
  • Ships entering Yemeni waters must obtain permit, Houthi minister says

    03/05/2024 2:17:05 PM PST · by hardspunned · 57 replies
    Al Jazeera ^ | 3/4/24 | Adam Makary
    CAIRO (Reuters) -Ships will have to obtain a permit from Yemen's Houthi-controlled Maritime Affairs Authority before entering Yemeni waters, Houthi Telecommunications Minister Misfer Al-Numair said on Monday. Houthi militants have repeatedly launched drones and missiles against international commercial shipping in the Gulf of Aden since mid-November, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians against Israel's offensive in Gaza.
  • American couple missing in Caribbean after fugitives allegedly steal their yacht: Police

    02/23/2024 8:53:28 PM PST · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    ABC News ^ | February 23, 2024, 4:28 PM | ByAnselm Gibbs , Ellie Kaufman, and Ivan Pereira
    An American couple has gone missing in the Caribbean after three escaped prisoners allegedly used their yacht to island hop before getting recaptured by authorities, according to investigators. Ralph Hendry and his wife Kathy Brandel disappeared from their yacht, Simplicity, which was docked in the waters of the southern Caribbean nation of Grenada, Hendry's sister, Suellen Desmarais, told ABC News. Police have not confirmed the identity and nationality of the couple but are investigating the incident. Hendry and Brandel were last seen alive by their boating neighbor at the dock on Sunday afternoon, according to Desmarais. The neighbor said he...
  • FBI Overstepped in Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules

    01/25/2024 7:59:51 AM PST · by Heartlander · 33 replies
    The Intercept ^ | January 24 2024 | Shawn Musgrave
    FBI Overstepped in Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court RulesThe 9th Circuit compared the searches to the “abuses of power” that “led to adoption of the Fourth Amendment in the first place.”The FBI overstepped its constitutional authority when agents searched hundreds of safe deposit boxes without warrants in 2021, a federal appeals court ruled. The court compared the FBI’s tactics to the kind of indiscriminate searches that led to the enactment of the Bill of Rights in the first place.In March 2021, the FBI raided U.S. Private Vaults, a safe deposit box company in Beverly Hills, California. The...
  • Houthis Say U.S. Will Pay ‘Heavy Price’ for Biden Strikes in Yemen

    01/12/2024 9:46:05 AM PST · by dynachrome · 63 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 1-12-24 | FRANCES MARTEL
    The Shiite Houthi terrorist organization warned on Friday that American President Joe Biden will pay “a heavy price” for authorizing airstrikes alongside the United Kingdom against Houthi assets in Yemen. The Pentagon and the British Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that they had coordinated dozens of strikes against strategic Houthi targets intended to limit the terrorists’ ability to disrupt international shipping. The Houthis, who consider themselves the legitimate government of Yemen, declared war on the nation of Israel in October in support of fellow terrorist group Hamas’s invasion of the country on October 7, in which it engaged in...
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guards Commander Threatens to Shut Down Mediterranean-The Islamic Republic might want to reflect on how Americans handled the Barbary Pirates

    01/04/2024 6:17:05 AM PST · by SJackson · 26 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | January 4, 2024 | Hugh Fitzgerald
    Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander, has recently been crowing about how the Islamic Republic of Iran had managed to disrupt traffic in the Persian Gulf, and now it is doing the same in the Red Sea. Full of braggadocio, he threatens that now the Islamic Republic will close off the entire Mediterranean Sea, and keep it closed until Israel halts its war in Gaza.The Arabs call the Mediterranean El-Bahr el-Abiadh el-Moutawwassit, “la mer blanche du milieu” in French, and “the white sea in the middle [of the world]” in English. In the time...
  • US sinks 3 Houthi attack boats as gunmen try to board container ship in Red Sea

    12/31/2023 5:35:36 AM PST · by Pox · 117 replies
    TOI ^ | 12/31/2023 | Agencies
    US helicopters sank three boats carrying Houthi gunmen who attacked a container ship that was transiting the Red Sea, the US military said Sunday. A US warship also shot down two ballistic missiles fired from Yemen, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. It said that at 6:30 a.m. local time, the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned and -operated container ship issued a second distress call after earlier reporting that it was hit by a missile.
  • BREAKING. US Navy Rescues Hijacked Israeli-Managed Oil Tanker and Captures Houthi Pirates

    11/26/2023 6:19:05 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 87 replies
    Red State ^ | 11/26/2023 | Streiff
    A US destroyer intercepted a hijacked Israeli-managed oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden earlier today, freed the crew, and took the Houthi pirates into custody. My colleague Jeff Charles covered the piracy in this post, High Seas Drama: Another Israeli Tanker Seized by Unidentified Attackers Near Yemen.Shortly after dawn local time, the Central Park, a small Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker managed by an Israeli company registered in London, sent a distress call saying it was being boarded by armed men. The USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was operating in the area. According to reports, the Mason directed...
  • Attackers seize an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen in a third such assault during the Israel-Hamas war (full of Phosphoric Acid)

    11/26/2023 6:49:51 AM PST · by C210N · 27 replies
    AP ^ | 11/26/23 | JON GAMBRELL
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Attackers seized a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Aden, Yemen, on Sunday, authorities said. While no group immediately claimed responsibility, it comes as at least two other maritime attacks in recent days have been linked to the Israel-Hamas war...."...The vessel is carrying a full cargo of phosphoric acid.”
  • Israeli ship with 22 on board hijacked by Yemen’s Houthi militia in the Red Sea

    11/19/2023 3:21:35 PM PST · by Robe · 24 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | 11/19/2023 | End Time Headlines
    An Israeli ship named “Galaxy Leader” has reportedly been hijacked by Yemen’s Houthi militia in the Red Sea. The ship had 22 people on board, according to reports. Israeli sources said that the Houthis seized a vessel partially owned by Israel in the Red Sea. No Israeli nationals were on board the ship, according to the sources. Earlier on Sunday, Yahya Sarea, a spokesman for the Iran-backed Houthis, said that the group would target all ships owned or operated by Israeli companies or carrying the Israeli flag, according to the group’s Telegram channel.
  • IDF confirms Houthis hijacked ship in Red Sea, says it is not an Israeli vessel

    11/19/2023 5:19:11 PM PST · by Rusty0604 · 16 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | 11/19/2023 | EMANUEL FABIAN
    The Israel Defense Forces says the hijacking of a shipping vessel in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen is a “very serious incident on the global scale.” It says the ship was sailing from Turkey to India with an international civilian crew, without any Israelis aboard. “This is not an Israeli ship,” the IDF adds. The military directly blames the Houthis for the hijacking. There are no Israelis among the crew aboard the Galaxy Leader ship. Arabic-language media outlets say there are 52 crew members aboard the vessel. The Bahaman-flagged vessel is registered under a British company,...
  • An Iranian IRGC vessel watches an American warship in the Strait of Hormuz Friday, May 19, 2023. (AP) US vows response after Iran tried to seize oil tankers near Strait of Hormuz

    07/06/2023 12:13:22 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    The White House said the US would respond to Iranian aggression together with allies and partners in the Middle East region.Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz early Wednesday, firing shots at one of them, the US Navy said. It said that in both cases, the Iranian naval vessels backed off after the US Navy responded, and that both commercial ships continued their voyages. “The Iranian navy did make attempts to seize commercial tankers lawfully transiting international waters,” said Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. “The US Navy responded immediately...
  • Iranian navy vessel fires on oil tanker in Gulf of Oman, prompting US to intervene (two tankers attacked)

    07/05/2023 11:43:15 AM PDT · by texas booster · 35 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | July 5 2023 | Mike Brest
    The U.S. Navy deterred Iranian forces from seizing two commercial tankers on Wednesday in separate incidents. First, at about 1 a.m. local time, an Iranian navy vessel approached the Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker TRF Moss in international waters in the Gulf of Oman. It departed when the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul arrived at the scene, the U.S. 5th Fleet announced on Wednesday. Approximately three hours later, another Iranian vessel began harassing the Bahamian-flagged oil tanker Richmond Voyager in international waters roughly 20 miles off the coast of Muscat, Oman. It opened fire with both small arms and crew-served...
  • NEW - Iran Seizes Second Oil Tanker In A Week — US Navy

    05/03/2023 8:40:52 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 18 replies
    Twitter ^ | 05/03/23 | U.S. Navy
    NEW - Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week — US Navy(Navy Video Of It In Link Below)https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1653709518247698437
  • Iran seized oil tanker headed for Texas, U.S. Navy says

    04/27/2023 6:43:08 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 41 replies
    Associated Press / NBC News ^ | 27 April 2023 | Staff
    The U.S. Navy said Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program. The Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Advantage Sweet. Satellite tracking data for the vessel from MarineTraffic.com showed it in the Gulf of Oman just north of Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Thursday afternoon. It had just come from Kuwait and listed its destination as Houston, Texas.