A high-profile, but very questionable incident was reported today by the Pentagon, as US officials claimed a pair of missiles landed sort of near the USS Mason, off the coast of Yemen. They conceded they had no clue if the missiles were meant to have been fired at the US guided missile destroyer, but they didn’t hit anything or do any damage.
Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthis denied firing any missiles at any US ships in the area, and claimed that the reports were centered on trying to distract the public from Saturday’s Saudi airstrikes against a funeral home, the deadliest attack of the war.
In a separate move seen as a retaliatory strike against the Saudis over that attack, which killed at least 155 people, Yemen’s Houthis reportedly fired a ballistic missile at a Saudi military base in central Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government claimed the missile was intercepted.
The US has participated in the Saudi war against Yemen, with ongoing refueling operations for Saudi bombers and intermittent participation in the naval blockade. Between this and substantial US arms sales to the Saudis, it might’ve been plausible that US forces in the waters off of Yemen might be seen as a military target, though in this situation that does not appear to have been the case.
Houthis in Yemen are fighting Al-Qaeda (you know, those guys we’re supposed to be getting rid in payback for 9/11 but strangely we’re allied to now) which is backed by our semi-ally Saudi Arabia (who is supporting ISIS, the guys we’re supposed to be getting rid of in payback for something or other). So, even if the missiles were fired by Houthis it would only make sense to target the ally (the US) of your enemy (Al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia).
Although, if one is prone to look a little deeper it’s not entirely impossible that Saudi Arabia might have fired those missiles off in a false-flag attempt to draw us into the ground war in Yemen to take the pressure off Saudi forces. It’s not like they haven’t seen a precedent for that sort of thing with the Israelis and the USS Liberty, right? And who are the Saudis buddying up to these days?
Feb 2, 2016 Breaking The Neocon Stranglehold On Washington
How do the neocons continue to be considered experts when they are wrong all the time? Robbie Martin, director of the three-part documentary “A Very Heavy Agenda,” will join today’s Liberty Report to discuss how no matter who is in power, the neocons remain on top.
https://youtu.be/C7Z8bwifCmA
Change the names from the ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ to the ‘Gulf of Yugar’ and this story seems like one we had pushed up our arses before, eh?