Posted on 04/23/2015 8:49:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
A nine-ship Iranian convoy believed to be laden with weapons bound for rebels in Yemen turned around Thursday after being followed by U.S. warships stationed in the area to prevent arms shipments, multiple sources in the Pentagon told Fox News.
The sources said the nine-ship convoy is south of Salalah, Oman, and now headed northeast in the Arabian Sea in the direction of home. The ships, which include seven freighters and two frigates, had sailed southwest along the coast of Yemen heading in the direction of Aden and the entrance to the Red Sea. They appeared to drop anchor in the north Arabian Sea, after the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Normandy and a half-dozen other American ships arrived in the Arabian Sea on Monday, and U.S. officials said that they could intercept the convoy.
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The Iranians completed the weapons transfer
and are heading home, protected by the Obola Hussein,
the undocumented First Moslem of the White Mosque.
See? See? 0bama scared Iran. Isn’t he just marvelous??
I believe we will lose a ship somehow and Øbama will learn about form the CNN . .
BINGO!
I wouldn’t doubt that.
Despite himself, Obama may have actually accomplished something decent.
On the other hand: Obama, “Eh, thanks a lot you guys. I look ever so much more ‘not the turd’ of the U. S. right now.” Ayatollah: “No problem brother...”
Strange...
Thanks for the link.
Too bad Yemen does not need artificial reefs. The Iranian ships would make good ones.
This is another Who To Believe moment. It is a tough decision.
The nine ship fleet was a ploy to distract the US ships - wonder where the real arms are.
There is no way they could port and off-load all their cargo in less than a day. The article you link to says it ported on Thursday and the article for this thread said they left on Thursday. It’s impossible to offload all that cargo in less than a day.
No marine traffic around Aden. www.marinetraffic.com
They off-loaded pretty quick!
The sources at the Pentagon say they turned around Thursday.
They couldn’t even get their story straight between them and the State Dept.as to why our carriers ships were even over there?
I frankly don’t know who to believe but I know I don’t trust anyone in this damn government.
Interesting. Every fiber of my being says there is no way this would have been an escort mission, but I ain’t putting nothing beyond Obola and crew.
If they can’t go over, they’ll go around/under/through next time. And there will be a next time and a next time and a next time after that.
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