US Strikes Yemen After Navy Ship Attacks

MEP: The U.S. military has launched cruise missile strikes on Yemen’s three coastal radar sites on Thursday reacting after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Red Sea. U.S. officials said.

The Pentagon said initial assessments showed that three radar sites involved in the recent missile launches had been destroyed.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement that President Barack Obama authorized the strikes on the recommendation of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joseph Dunford.

“These limited self-defense strikes were conducted to protect our personnel, our ships, and our freedom of navigation,” Cook said.

“The United States will respond to any further threat to our ships and commercial traffic, as appropriate,” he added.

The strikes mark the first direct involvement by the US forces in the Muslim country.

They came hours after at least one missile was fired at the USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, in the Red Sea off Yemen.

The Pentagon said the ship took defensive action and suffered no damage.

On Sunday the USS Mason and the USS Ponce, an amphibious warfare ship, were targeted in a failed missile attack from territory in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, according to the Pentagon.

However, some analysts believe that the US is seeking a permanent position in the Yemen by doing all this pretext blaming on local fighters in the war-torn country.

They say if the Houthi fighters were really involved in the Navy destroyer attacks, why their targets did not hit the ship? If this is not a pretext to seek a permanent presence in Yemen, what is it then?

The United States is looking to support the Saudi Arabia’s aggression in the country as well as creating a nest for itself as it knocked out from Syria and Iraq war.